The Side Door History of America
A Short American History Told Through the Events We Usually SkipBy Jonathan Hayes
Length2h 17m
About this audiobook
Walk into American history through the side door…and you’ll see the nation form in the places most timelines rush past.
This short, story-driven audiobook moves from Jamestown’s Starving Time to the fall of the Berlin Wall, using vivid scenes and overlooked hinge moments to explain the eras you think you know: rebellion and revolution, the Constitution’s compromises, the rise of slavery and the Cotton Kingdom, Bleeding Kansas on the road to Civil War, Reconstruction’s collapse after the Compromise of 1877, industrial power and labor conflict, America’s turn toward empire in the Philippines, World War I’s propaganda-and-surveillance machinery, the Great Depression and the Bonus Army, WWII’s homefront fear and the loyalty questionnaire…and the long Cold War that reshaped everything.
If you like narrative history podcasts, you’ll love this: clear, atmospheric, and built for listening… history with momentum, not homework.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length2 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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