History audiobooks

The Quest

By: Frank Peters

Narrated by: Frank Peters

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed professor emeritus F.E. Peters compares the similarities and differences in the dual searches for the historical Jesus and the historical Muhammad. These quests have been the focus of considerable effort since the lifetime of each of these venerated figures. Using the primary tools of historical inquiry and the evidence discovered by... Read more

Our Lady of Guadalupe

By: Carl Anderson & Eduardo Chavez

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be... Read more

The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism

By: Jonathan Smele

Narrated by: Jonathan Smele

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917. To understand the Russian Revolution, then, is to understand a key building block of modern history and the contemporary world.... Read more

American Passage

By: Vincent J. Cannato

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Vincent J. Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry. From eyewitness accounts, Cannato weaves together a poignant testament to the hopes and fears of "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." "Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly... Read more

Jefferson the Virginian

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone┬É’s Pulitzer Prize–winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast resources, it covers Jefferson’s ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the... Read more

The War That Killed Achilles

By: Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home. Achilles—the electrifying hero who is Homer’s... Read more

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

By: Dee Brown

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of... Read more

The Fourth Star

By: Greg Jaffe & David Cloud

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next... Read more

K2

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top

At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in... Read more

Why You Think the Way You Do

By: Glenn S. Sunshine

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of... Read more

D-Day

By: Antony Beevor

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—Time

Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books 

Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents... Read more

Highest Duty

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie & Chesley B. Sullenberger

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15,... Read more

The Fourth Star - Abridged

By: Greg Jaffe & David Cloud

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next... Read more

The Most They Ever Had

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, bitter, angry, afraid. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still... Read more

Scouting the Divine

By: Margaret Feinberg

Narrated by: Margaret Feinberg

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Join beloved Bible teacher Margaret Feinberg as you learn how to move from simply reading Scripture to entering stories that can be touched, tasted, smelled, and savored.The Bible is full of clever plots and compelling stories, laced with historic insights and literary beauty. But despite its richness and depth, many of us struggle to close the... Read more

America's Prophet

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most fascinating and thought-provoking book to date, America’s... Read more

The Last Decent Parking Place in North America - Abridged

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bodett offers his keen, unforgettable observations of the lives of the peopleof Homer, Alaska, who "just ended up there, and stayed." Read more

München - Abridged

By: Otto Zierer & Anton Kammerl

Narrated by: Andreas Giebel

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

850 Jahre München: Anekdoten- und informationsreiche Führung durch die Geschichte der Isarmetropole - gelesen vom echten Münchner Original Andreas Giebel. Von der Siedlung an den Isarufern, vom Glanz des Herrscherhauses, von der Blüte der Künste und Wissenschaften, von Hungersnöten und Kriegen bis hin zum Wiederaufbau. In lebendigen Geschichten... Read more

The Making of Modern Britain - Abridged

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: Andrew Marr

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.

Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the... Read more

What on Earth is Going On?

By: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Narrated by: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein READ BY TOM BAIRD AND ARTHUR HOUSE.The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all... Read more

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show.

Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest—panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and... Read more

The Hawk and the Dove

By: Nicholas Thompson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and surviving—that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic... Read more

The Predictioneer's Game

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have... Read more

The Great Explorers

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 25 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The great voyages of discovery to the New World are here brought to life by one of the twentieth century's most eminent historians, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Samuel Morison. A master seaman himself, Morison personally retraced the voyages of the early explorers, charting his travels in maps and photographs and comparing these to the maps... Read more