History audiobooks

The Greatest Presidential Speeches of Our Time

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of presidential speeches that spans 75 years, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural speech in 1933 to Barack Obama's victory speech in 2008. All presidents from this period are featured here, including Harry S. Truman (“Inaugural Address”), Dwight Eisenhower (“Republican Convention Address”), John F. Kennedy... Read more

Nixonland

By: Rick Perlstein

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 36 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory... Read more

Practicing Catholic

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

James Carroll delivers a tour-de-force look at what it means to be a Catholic today--set against the rich history of the Catholic Church in America. Brilliantly wresting meaning from the historical, social and religious strands of his story, Carroll illuminates the Church's transformation from reactionary monolith to an institution in which the... Read more

Joker One

By: Donovan Campbell

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Donovan Campbell's platoon deployed to Ramadi in the spring of 2004, they believed they'd be spending most of their time building schools, training police, and making friends with the citizens. But shortly after arriving, when Campbell awoke to the chilling cry of "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!" echoing from minaret to minaret across the city, he... Read more

The Last Stand of Fox Company

By: Tom Clavin & Bob Drury

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the... Read more

Paul

By: Frederick Brotherton Meyer

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why some sheep hear the Shepherd’s voice and follow, while others persist is one of those secrets which are not revealed as yet to the children of men.”“But as the eye of omniscient love glanced down the ages, it must have lighted with peculiar pleasure on the eager, devoted soul of Paul. God foreknew and predestined him. The divine purpose,... Read more

The Persian Night

By: Amir Taheri

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the... Read more

Liberty and Tyranny

By: Mark R. Levin

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin's #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.

When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in... Read more

No god but God

By: Reza Aslan

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot

Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded by ignorance and fear. What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews and... Read more

Beyond the Yellow Star to America

By: Inge Auerbacher

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1942, when she is seven, Inge Auerbacher and her family are torn from their comfortable home in Germany and sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. In 1945, they are freed from the camp and emigrate to America. Their survival seems like a miracle. But once they settle in New York, Inge, who is now eleven, is imprisoned again. This... Read more

Master of War

By: Benson Bobrick

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revelatory, dynamic biography, one of our finest historians, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh... Read more

Harry, a History

By: Melissa Anelli

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What it was like to seek out friends, families, online forums, fan fiction, and podcasts to get a fix between novels. When the... Read more

From Oppression Springs Safety, Community, And Hope

By: Will Keepin, Ph.D., Sister Lucy Kurien & Chaya ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sister Lucy created Maher, a model refuge for abused women and children in India. At Maher they receive shelter, food, and medicine—but also love, and the support of a community that can sustain them for a lifetime. And now, Sister Lucy stands strong at the center of a safety net that defies raging husbands, corrupt government officials, and the... Read more

Prehistory

By: Colin Renfrew

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory-human existence that predates the development of written records-while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself. Read more

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan

By: James Mann

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, James Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative—a new history assessing what Ronald Reagan did and did not do to help bring America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union to a close.



As he did so masterfully in Rise of the Vulcans, Mann sheds new light on the hidden aspects... Read more

The Boys of Summer

By: Roger Kahn

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good... Read more

Forever Blue

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Resented by some in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade major league baseball and altered the course of history in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while many New York critics attacked him, O’Malley looked to... Read more

Stealing MySpace

By: Julia Angwin

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of MySpace, a powerhouse Internet company that rose from humble beginnings to become nothing less than one of the centerpieces of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. No one would have predicted that this company—barely funded, technologically inept, conceptually derivative, and driven by rivalries—would morph into the biggest... Read more

Jeb Stuart

By: Burke Davis

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War, General J. E. B. Stuart.This life-size portrait of Stuart surveys his life from childhood through his training at West Point, his years on the Western frontier, and his decision to stand with Virginia when war arrived. His brilliant Civil War... Read more

The First Salute

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, distinguished historian, and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman finally turns her sights homeward. Here she analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating... Read more

The Motorcycle Diaries

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on "La Poderosa", the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the 23-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che's diaries - full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy and laddish improvisations.During... Read more

The Bolivian Diary - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Home will be the open sky... each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea, but to make that idea a reality."Che Guevara remains one of the world's most iconic political and revolutionary figures. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla... Read more

Out of Captivity - Abridged

By: Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Keith Stansell & Gar...

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“[A] remarkable story….An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.” —Arizona RepublicThe spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors who were held hostage by the FARC rebel group in Colombia for five and a... Read more

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary Wa - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The people of Cuba struggled against immense odds to emerge victorious from years of brutal dictatorship and poverty in 1959. This is Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account of the transformation of a country and also the transformation of Che himself - from a troop doctor to a revolutionary leader, who would become one of the greatest icons of... Read more