History audiobooks

Billy the Kid

By: Michael Wallis

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.



Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to... Read more

Justinian's Flea

By: William Rosen

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople, he built the world's most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's... Read more

Conquering Gotham

By: Jill Jonnes

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats—the construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. Now, in this gripping narrative, Jill Jonnes tells this fascinating story—a high-stakes drama that pitted the... Read more

Robert Dallek: Partners in Power

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the biography Partners in Power: Nixon and Kissinger, historian Robert Dallek highlights the tumultuous years of Nixon's presidency and provides an inside look at American policymaking during the years 1969-1974. In this interview, Dallek explains why he wrote the book and provides insight on the complex relationship between the president and... Read more

Power, Faith, and Fantasy

By: Michael B. Oren

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 27 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush.



From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines, and from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove... Read more

A History of Modern Britain - Abridged

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: Andrew Marr

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders thought they... Read more

FDR

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 32 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of today’s premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace... Read more

Second Chance

By: Zbigniew Brzezinski

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the... Read more

Last Flag Down

By: John Baldwin & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

a loyal warrior. a dying cause. an epic race for salvation.

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah,... Read more

Last Flag Down - Abridged

By: John Baldwin & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah,... Read more

FDR - Abridged

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean ... Read more

Fallen Founder

By: Nancy Isenberg

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough

Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding... Read more

The Real All Americans

By: Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879,... Read more

Presidential Courage - Abridged

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Conquerors comes a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous president dramatically changed the future of the United States.

With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Michael Beschloss brings to life the... Read more

The Best and the Brightest - Abridged

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: David Clennon

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times

Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons... Read more

The Real All Americans - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.


If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the... Read more

Scorpion Down

By: Ed Offley

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

The Hunt for Red October meets Blind Man's Bluff in the untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War—and the forty-year cover-up that followed.



The last thing they heard was the faint scree-scree of a high-speed propeller. Then the torpedo hit, the warhead detonated, the ocean thundered in, and ninety-nine men... Read more

Four Queens

By: Nancy Goldstone

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.

From a cultured childhood in Provence, each sister was... Read more

Tales from Q School - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Raise a Fist, Take a Knee and A Good Walk Spoiled, this "must-read" national bestseller takes you inside the dramatic world of the highest-pressure golf tournament in the world (Tampa Tribune).  

It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the... Read more

Policarpa Salavarrieta

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Policarpa se convierte en una de las figuras más visibles por ser la conexión entre quienes apoyaban la independencia y la guerrilla de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia. Fue llevada presa al Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, donde fue ejecutada junto con su novio, Alejo Savarín.

Policarpa became prominent in history because she turned out... Read more

At the Center of the Storm - Abridged

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

Empire of Blue Water

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Empire of Blue Water - Abridged

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more