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Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

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    Time's Convert

    return to the spellbinding world of A Discovery of Witches

    by Deborah Harkness ...
    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 46 min

    From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, soon to be a major Sky TV series, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.From human to vampire ...Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself.But ... ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Alexander Hamilton

    by Ron Chernow ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 1 min

    Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Few figures in American history are more controversial. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to ... Read more

    $56.80 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    John Adams

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared ... Read more

    $91.28 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hero of Two Worlds

    The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

    by Mike Duncan ...
    Narrated by Mike Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 20 min

    From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of ... Read more

    $40.41 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Liberty's Lions

    The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America

    by Dan LeRoy ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    Great Catholics were crucial to America's founding, they were downgraded by most historians who never spoke their names. End of problem-thanks to an independent historian, Dan LeRoy, who gets right to the point. "The primary goal of this book: to gather together, in one place and for the first time, the significant contributions of Catholics to the American Revolution." The veteran writer ... Read more

    $37.43 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Freedom's Prophet

    Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

    by Richard S. Newman ...
    Narrated by Leonard Dozier ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    **Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography CategoryBrings to life the inspiring story of one of America's Black Founding Fathers, featured in the documentary The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song**Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African American church and the leading black activist of the ... Read more

    $33.70 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Power and Liberty

    Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism-the nature of power, liberty, ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Constitution

    Enduring Myths and Hidden Truths

    by Andrew Porwancher ...
    Narrated by Andrew Porwancher ...
    series One Day University

    Unabridged

    1 hour 10 min

    One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Amid the heat of a Philadelphia summer in 1787, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention gathered ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis, The

    What The Founders Would Say To America Today

    by Steven Rabb ...
    Narrated by Steven Rabb ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 46 min

    In a work described as “the ethos of our democratic Republic through the consolidation of the thoughts and words of our founders" and reviews such as “I couldn’t put this book down!” and "A fantastic read. It can be read in one day and reread the next." author Steven Rabb has created a powerful read through the synergized writings of America’s Founding Fathers. Through the words of the Founders, ... Read more

    $26.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Motor City: The History of the Fur Trade Outpost that Became Detroit

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Scott Clem ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 19 min

    Few cities epitomize the best and worst of the United States like Detroit, which started as a remote trading post and grew into an industrious town before exploding into a bustling city. That city then fell, leaving a legacy of anger and despair only recently beginning to turn things around.At the same time, the same mighty city that proved capable of arming a nation at war found itself seething ... Read more

    $10.41 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition

    by John Fea ...
    Narrated by Scott R. Pollak ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping listeners see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. This updated edition reports on the many issues that ... Read more

    $37.43 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The American Revolution, Part 2

    by Pat Childs, George H. Smith ...
    Narrated by George C. Scott ...
    series The United States at War Series #2

    Unabridged

    2 hours 30 min

    In 1776, the thirteen American colonies, refusing to pay unjust taxes, declared their independence from Britain. The resulting years of war are called the American Revolution, but many founding fathers believed the real American Revolution was not the war with Britain but the revolution in ideas which preceded and caused the war. From 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, many Americans ... Read more

    $14.90 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    America’s Forgotten Wars: The History and Legacy of the Nation’s Forgotten Conflicts on the Way to Becoming a Global Power

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Scott Clem ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    The history of the United States is to a large extent a history of armed conflict. The nation was first forged in war, a tough fight for independence against one of the world’s largest empires, and that fight would resume less than a generation later with the War of 1812. Then there were constant low-level conflicts with Native Americans as the nation expanded westwards, and occasionally the ... Read more

    $14.96 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Acceptance of Command of the Continental Army

    by George Washington ...
    Narrated by Larry G. Jones ...

    Unabridged

    1 min

    George Washington gained a reputation for military excellence for his service in the French and Indian War. This experience, combined with his unique situation as a relative outsider, made him an obvious choice to lead the Continental Army. Washington managed to get a ragtag army into fighting form, leading them to victory against all odds. Yet he remained humble; in this acceptance speech, he ... Read more

    $5.23 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    John Adams

    A Life

    by John Ferling ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 45 min

    John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, ... Read more

    $44.91 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Panic of 1792, The: The History and Legacy of America’s First Financial Crisis

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    In 1783, the last British troops left the American East Coast port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New York. The War of Independence was over, and the United States of America finally emerged as an independent nation free from British rule. It was a stunning defeat for the British, but it was no less surprising to the victors – in fact, the man who would become the first president of the new ... Read more

    $10.41 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sweet Land of Liberty

    Old Times in the Colonies

    by Charles Carleton Coffin ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    The settlement of North America was the beginning of a new era in human history. The oppressive laws, habits and customs of the Old World no longer held such power over those who had made the treacherous journey across the Atlantic. No reigning monarch or dictatorial power ever stepped onto the ground of North America. Yet, despite this, the men and women thirteen colonies of North America were ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    by Benjamin Franklin ...
    Narrated by Fredd Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    Benjamin Franklin was not only one of America’s Founding Fathers—he was also a fascinating character who lived an exciting life. Whether carousing with prostitutes in Paris, taunting lightning bolts with kites, or founding America’s first volunteer firefighting organization, Franklin was always at the center of activity. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin details this American’s early years, ... Read more

    $29.88 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Freethinker

    Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation

    by Kirsten Fischer ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world. For this, his Christian critics denounced him as a heretic whose ideas endangered the country. One of the most infamous American freethinkers in his day, Elihu ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    An American Quilt

    Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery

    by Rachel May ...
    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    When we think of slavery, most of us think of the American South. We think of back-breaking fieldwork on plantations. We don’t think of slavery in the North, nor do we think of the grueling labor of urban and domestic slaves. Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between ... Read more

    $34.37 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    James Madison

    A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation

    by Jeff Broadwater ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison’s role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, his place in the ... Read more

    $29.88 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Frontiersmen

    A Narrative

    by Allan W. Eckert ...
    Narrated by Kevin Foley ...
    series Winning of America #1

    Unabridged

    30 hours 30 min

    The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach ... Read more

    $44.17 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    George Washington: History in an Hour

    by David B. McCoy ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 18 min

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle of Washington’s life – his rise from middle class Virginian upbringing to ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Franklin & Washington

    The Founding Partnership

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Narrated by Andrew Tell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    "Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." —Gordon S. WoodFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance.One of USA Today’s “Must-Read Books" of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial