History audiobooks

The Great Deluge - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama. First was the... Read more

The Whiskey Rebellion

By: William Hogeland

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across the Appalachians. Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians, William Hogeland brings to startling... Read more

Wesley for Armchair Theologians

By: William J. Abraham

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by experts but designed for the novice, the Armchair series provides accurate, concise, and witty overviews of some of the most profound moments and theologians in Christian history. Wesley for Armchair Theologians is a guide into one of the most prominent theologians of all time, the founder of Methodism. Read more

A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979,... Read more

House of War

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 26 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In House of War, the bestselling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September... Read more

Overthrow

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments—not always to its own benefit.

"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with... Read more

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: author

Narrated by: Terry Jones

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults,... Read more

Revolutionary Characters

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men great???and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each?Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,... Read more

Tiger Force - Abridged

By: Mitch Weiss & Michael Sallah

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission... Read more

Mayflower

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."
--The New York Times Book Review

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year

How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey... Read more

The Secrets of Judas

By: James M. Robinson

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community, portraying this despised man as someone who saw his role in the Passion of Christ as integral to a larger plan, and bringing new clarity to the old story. If Judas had not betrayed Jesus, Jesus would not have been handed over to the authorities,... Read more

The Big Bam

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

The Big Bam - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

House of War - Abridged

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: James Carroll

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In House of War, the bestselling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

Before the Dawn

By: Nicholas Wade

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.



Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings—driven by revelations discovered in... Read more

Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Bart Ehrman, author of the bestsellers Misquoting Jesus and Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene.



What do the writings of the New Testament tell us about... Read more

The American Home Front

By: Alistair Cooke

Narrated by: John Byrne Cooke

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our country’s complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America - the Twentieth Century’s de Tocqueville.Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941,... Read more

Mark Felt

By: Mark Felt & John O'Connor

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only... Read more

A Writer's Life

By: Gay Talese

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 20 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books... Read more

Guests of the Ayatollah - Abridged

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Mark Bowden

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days.

The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with... Read more

Clemente - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food... Read more

A Writer's Life - Abridged

By: Gay Talese

Narrated by: Gay Talese

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books... Read more

Rough Crossings - Abridged

By: Simon Schama

Narrated by: Simon Schama

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading an exhilarating and often moving experience.”—Daily TelegraphIf you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want... Read more