The Right to Vote

What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why

By: Kim Wehle
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

“Now, more than ever, Americans are realizing that their votes count. Kim Wehle’s excellent guide tells you everything you need to know about the laws governing our greatest right and privilege. A must-read, especially in an election year.” —Norah O'Donnell, Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening NewsWant to change the world? The first step is... Read more

Thank You For Voting

The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

By: Erin Geiger Smith
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.Voting is a prized... Read more

Thank You for Voting Young Readers’ Edition

The Past, Present, and Future of Voting

By: Erin Geiger Smith
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

In this young readers’ edition of Thank You for Voting, debut author and journalist Erin Geiger Smith presents a fascinating look into America’s voting history and inspires young people to get involved!  Voting is a privilege and a right, but it hasn’t always been for many people. From the founding fathers to Jim Crow to women’s suffrage to... Read more

The Day Madear Voted

By: Wade Hudson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 minutes

A moving look at a Black family’s journey to exercise their right to vote and imagine a better future.

Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear... Read more

One Person, One Vote

A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America

By: Nick Seabrook
Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment—from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts—and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for... Read more

Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote

The Questioneers: Book #4

By: Andrea Beaty
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Miss Lila Greer announces it’s time for Grade Two to get a class pet, and she wants the kids to participate in choosing which one. After all, they will all have to share the responsibility of caring for it. The class narrows it down to two options: Team Turtle and Team Bird. Sofia is named Election Commissioner, in charge of overseeing a fair... Read more

The Voting Booth

By: Brandy Colbert
Narrated by: Robin Eller & Cary Hite
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first election? Duke Crenshaw is so done with this election. He just wants to get voting over with so he can prepare for his band's first paying gig tonight. Only problem? Duke can't vote. When Marva... Read more

Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment

By: Eleanor Clift
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tennessee, but on the shoulders of a single man: twenty-four-year-old legislator Harry Burn. Burn had previously voted with the anti-suffrage forces. If he did so again, the vote would be tied and the... Read more

Democracy or Else

How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor & Josh Halloway
Narrated by: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett & Tommy Vietor
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful and illustrated guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection If you’re looking to navigate the chaotic, dunce-infested waters of American politics, Democracy or Else is here to help you tackle what might be the greatest question of our time: How... Read more

Gilded Suffragists

The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote

By: Johanna Neuman
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney, and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the... Read more

Represent

The Unfinished Fight for the Vote

By: Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Read about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau.

One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is... Read more

The Vote Collectors

The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud

By: Nick Ochsner & Michael Graff
Narrated by: Nick Ochsner
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs... Read more

Uncounted

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

By: Gilda R. Daniels
Narrated by: Gilda R. Daniels
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot... Read more

Freedom on Trial

The First Post-Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression

By: Scott Farris
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

The Confederacy lost the Civil War but quickly began to win the peace when a mysterious organization arose called the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux, as it was then called, sought to restore white supremacy by terrorizing the formerly enslaved to prevent them from voting or owning firearms. To support Black resistance to the KKK's campaign of murder... Read more

A Real Right to Vote

How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy

By: Richard L. Hasen
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to vote. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to vote. The Supreme Court has made matters worse by failing to protect voting rights and limiting Congress's ability to do so. The time has come for voters... Read more

How We Vote

Innovation in American Elections

By: Kathleen Hale & Mitchell Brown
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex. In How We Vote, Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown explore how election officials work, how ballots are cast and counted, and how jurisdictions try to innovate while also protecting the security of the voting process.



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And Yet They Persisted

How American Women Won the Right to Vote

By: Johanna Neuman
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power. Reintegrating the long struggle for the women's suffrage into the metanarrative of US history, Dr. Neuman sheds new light on such questions as:



● Why... Read more

Suffrage

Women's Long Battle for the Vote

By: Ellen Carol DuBois
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this “indispensable” book (Ellen Chesler, Ms. magazine) explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.

Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with... Read more

Victory for the Vote

The Fight for Women’s Suffrage and the Century That Followed

By: Doris Weatherford
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

An inspirational gift for womenIn her book Victory for the Vote, women’s history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality.Foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy PelosiVictory for the Vote puts the... Read more

The Defender

How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama

By: Ethan Michaeli
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes

Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one... Read more