History audiobooks

Ill Fares the Land

By: Tony Judt

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

British historian Tony Judt writes a passionate, wise letter about what is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. He shows how to apply the past to the future, challenging us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Geroge Washington's Farewell Address

By: George Washington

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection…and which appear to me all-important to... Read more

Lives of the Pirates

By: Kathleen Krull & Kathryn Hewitt

Narrated by: Ray Childs & Kymberly Dakin

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The pirates of legend sailed the seven seas, exercised a salty vocabulary, and pursued lives full of swordplay and adventure. But what was life like for the real pirates of history? What odd animals did William Dampier have on board? Why did Grace O’Malley cut off her hair? And which pirate liked to wear pajamas on deck? Through the spyglass of... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Thomas Jefferson

By: Thomas Jefferson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thus reads the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson – author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States,... Read more

A History of the Arab Peoples

By: Albert Hourani

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single-volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization—until... Read more

The Book of Five Rings

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai. He had little idea he was penning a masterpiece that would be eagerly devoured by people in all walks of life centuries after his... Read more

How Great Generals Win

By: Bevin Alexander

Narrated by: James Slattery

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history, great generals have done what their enemies have least expected. Instead of direct, predictable attack, they have deceived, encircled, outflanked, out-thought, and overcome often superior armies commanded by conventional thinkers.Collected here are the stories of the most successful commanders of all time, among them... Read more

Hero Found

By: Bruce Henderson

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In February 1966, U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral Laos." He crashed deep in territory controlled by North Vietnamese army regulars and the communist Pathet Lao, who would eventually capture him and hold him prisoner in a fortified jungle prisoner-of-war camp.



But German-born Dengler was no ordinary prisoner. Already a... Read more

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

By: Jim Marrs

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jim Marrs can’t be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he.”—Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a terrifying proposition: that the current economic collapse has been engineered by a tyrannous... Read more

Wilberforce

By: John Pollock

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Hull in 1759, William Wilberforce was destined to become one of Britain’s most influential statesmen, having been influenced himself by men like Whitefield, Wesley, and, most of all, John Newton. Chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England, he was at the heart of British politics for... Read more

American Indians and the Law

By: N. Bruce Duthu

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor N. Bruce Duthu, J.D., is an internationally recognized scholar on Native American issues. In American Indians and the Law, he highlights the major events, the differing principles, and the evolving perspectives that have governed relations among the Indian tribes, the federal government, and the states. "A concise history of the law... Read more

The Most Dangerous Place

By: Imtiaz Gul

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years ago we chased the Taliban from Kabul and forced al-Qaeda to find a new home. One by one the militants crossed the border into Pakistan and settled in its tribal areas, building alliances with locals and terrorizing or bribing their way to power. This place—Pakistan's lawless frontier—is now the epicenter of global terrorism. It is... Read more

Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo

By: Benjamin Tupper

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Captain Benjamin Tupper spent a year in Afghanistan in an Embedded Training Team, tasked with training, leading in combat, and mentoring the Afghan Army to victory against the brutal Taliban. Writing and recording from a remote outpost, Tupper's dispatches were posted on the blog The Sandbox and broadcast on NPR, bringing vivid snapshots of... Read more

The Publisher

By: Alan Brinkley

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 21 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Henry Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit... Read more

Still a Legend

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This book recounts the slugger Roger Maris' life before, during, and after his headline season of 1961, when the taciturn North Dakota native topped Babe Ruth's all-time record by hitting sixty-one home runs. From his youth as a star high-school athlete and American Legion baseball player, Maris's went on to play for the Cleveland Indians, the... Read more

Constitutional Journal

By: Jeffrey St. John

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are there, in 1787, at America’s constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast journalist Jeffrey St. John “reports” each day’s proceedings, flavoring his dispatches with quotes from private correspondence and notes of the... Read more

Honus Wagner

By: Dennis DeValeria & Jeanne Burke DeValeria

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Honus Wagner, whose career in baseball stretched from 1895 to 1917, was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century. One of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in its first year (1939), he was arguably the best shortstop in baseball history. His great career and the dawn of baseball as a popular... Read more

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 26 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more

Hogan

By: Curt Sampson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Golf hero Ben Hogan bore a mystique that still captivates golfers: a silent, almost eerie concentration that intimidated his opponents, a presence any politician or actor would envy, and an ability to hit a ball so squarely it sizzled as it left his club. Hogan won four US Opens in six years, three after a near-fatal automobile accident. His... Read more

When the Boys Came Back

By: Frederick Turner

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of World War II, few events in the United States were as eagerly awaited as baseball's spring training. But the national pastime was as unsettled as the rest of the country. Had some of the stars seen their careers ended by their service? How would wartime players fare against returning veterans?These questions would be answered... Read more

Red Star over Hollywood

By: Ronald Radosh & Allis Radosh

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Until now, Hollywood’s political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the “backstory” behind this myth. They show how the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the late... Read more

Deathride

By: John Mosier

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. Although the Eastern Front was the biggest and most important theater in World War II, it is not well known in the United States, as no American troops participated in the fighting. Yet historians agree that this is where the decisive battles of the war were fought.... Read more

Freedom Summer

By: Bruce Watson

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new... Read more

Medieval People

By: Eileen Power

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this classic of social history, the author describes the lives of five lesser-known men and women of the Middle Ages, as well as one famous one. She draws on account books, records, letters, diaries, and wills to make the life of those times as concrete and comprehensible as our own. There are full-length portraits of Bodo, a Frankish peasant... Read more