History audiobooks

Nothing to Fear

By: Adam Cohen

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history—the tense, feverish first one hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, more than 10,000 banks had gone under following the Crash... Read more

Lucrezia Borgia

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance: incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither... Read more

Co. Aytch

By: Sam R. Watkins

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote the remarkable account of "Co. Aytch," its... Read more

The Great Gamble

By: Gregory Feifer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for American foreign policy today. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the war from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia... Read more

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East—and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.

President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three... Read more

The Pluto Files

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it’s a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto’s status, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. The year of Pluto’s discovery, Disney created an irresistible pup by the... Read more

Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 32 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser... Read more

Price of Prosperity

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Masters of Enterprise

By: H.W. Brands

Narrated by: H.W. Brands

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the formation of the American Republic the principles of free enterprise and equal opportunity have been at the very core of economic philosophy. During the revolution, colonists fought not only for intangibles like "liberty" and "justice," but also for the promises of a free market that provided everyone with the opportunity to pursue... Read more

Odyssey of the West II

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more

Rethinking Our Past

By: James Loewen

Narrated by: James Loewen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today. Read more

Odyssey of the West I

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more

Christianity at the Crossroads

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed history professor Thomas F. Madden explores the reformations that swept across Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The impact of these reforms affected government, popes, and kings as well as commoners, for at this time the Church was an omnipresent part of European identity-and the import of Church reforms on every... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 08 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prinz Eugen kämpft erfolgreich gegen die Türken, trägt im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg Siege davon und fördert als Mäzen Kunst und Wissenschaft. Doch das 18. Jahrhundert wird zum Schauplatz für andere werden: Maria Theresia und Friedrich der Große. Ein kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick in bissiger Rosendorfer-Manier. Read more

The Inheritance

By: David E. Sanger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times examines the effect the Bush Administration’s foreign and domestic policies will have on global politics.

This trenchant analysis of the Bush Administration’s legacy is a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the foreign policy decisions that have come out of the White House in the last... Read more

A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 27 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this important new biography, Ronald C. White, Jr. offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators are calling “authenticity”—whose internal moral compass is the key to understanding his life. Through meticulous research, utilizing recently discovered Lincoln letters, legal papers, and... Read more

La masacre de Virginia Tech

By: Juan Gomez-Jurado

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

En este libro el periodista Juan Gomez-Jurado nos narra los acontecimientos ocurridos el lunes 16 de abril de 2007, en la universidad tecnologica de Virginia, dando lugar a un hecho conocido en todo el mundo como "La Masacre de Virginia Tech". Con una precision milimetrica Gomez-Jurado describe minuto a minuto como el estudiante koreano Cho... Read more

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

By: Deborah Heiligman

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the... Read more

The Three Edwards

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Three Edwards is the third audiobook in Thomas B. Costain's The History of the Plantagenet series. Read more

The Last Plantagenets

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor.
The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles... Read more

Appetite for Self-Destruction

By: Steve Knopper

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world—and the advent of file sharing brought it to its... Read more

Ivory's Ghosts

By: John Frederick Walker

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the “jewels of the elephant” – its great tusks. Ivory is a supreme organic treasure, prized throughout the world for its pale, lustrous beauty and ability to be finely carved. In Ivory’s Ghosts, John Frederick Walker layers rich history and firsthand reportage to tell the... Read more

A World of Trouble

By: Patrick Tyler

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 27 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of American misadventures in the region, the story of American presidents' dealings... Read more

The Magnificent Century

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272.
During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in government. Despite... Read more