History audiobooks

Six Days of War

By: Michael B. Oren

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as “the Setback.” Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish... Read more

Ethnic America

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: James Bundy

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest dramas in all of modern times involves the peopling of America. In Ethnic America, Thomas Sowell provides a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans.Sowell offers... Read more

Silicon Gold Rush

By: Karen Southwick

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A hotbed of activity for farsighted thinkers and determined doers, the high-technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today’s most innovative technological advances, but at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business.Armed with groundbreaking management approaches,... Read more

A Conflict of Visions

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a... Read more

Compassion versus Guilt, and Other Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Michael Kevin

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sociologist-economist Sowell, a noted conservative, draws this collection of essays from his Scripps-Howard syndicated column and his contributions to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.Sowell offers opinions on social and foreign policy, law, education, and race, criticizing the trend of American politics since... Read more

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories

By: Richard Phalon

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Biotech, high tech, bubbles, and busts—no two stock markets are ever the same. Getting ahead of the game demands something hard to find on Wall Street these days: a flexible long-term strategy good for all seasons. These great investing stories provide a well-honed guide to the practicalities of dealing with the turbulent markets of the new... Read more

The Triumph of Liberty

By: Jim Powell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 26 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Of humankind’s great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny’s iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this inspiring story through sixty-five biographical portraits. From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made... Read more

Living Biographies of Religious Leaders

By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world’s foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries.In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors... Read more

The Eternal Summer

By: Curt Sampson

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to the show and enabled this "rich man's sport" to win over millions of new fans.Here was... Read more

Dorothy Day

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the... Read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 3

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Carson's full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, that have shaped this nation.Carson begins this third volume by diagnosing the root causes that eventually gave rise to sectionalism:... Read more

Six Armies in Normandy

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In burnished, driving prose, John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the liberation of Paris. At the same time, he furthers his exploration of the "role which warfare and its institutions play in social life" by showing how each of the six armies, while resembling one another in purpose and authority, is a mirror of... Read more

In the Hands of Providence

By: Alice Rains Trulock

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the... Read more

Embracing Defeat

By: John W. Dower

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 21 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this illuminating study, Dower explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. He describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over"—from top-level manipulations... Read more

Living Biographies of Famous Women

By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas

Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Each of the individuals featured in this book played an important role in history. Their accomplishments span a wide range of fields, from the literary and the political to the medical. They include Cleopatra; Theodora; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Christina; Madame de Maintenon; Charlotte Brontë; George Eliot; Elizabeth Barrett... Read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 6

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. “For Carson, history is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence... Read more

The Great Chase

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is the longest-standing rivalry in baseball history—a feud that began in the late nineteenth century when both clubs were based in New York City. Then, on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" ended their pennant race—one of the most dramatic ever. Interviews, contemporary newspaper articles,... Read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 2

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. “For Carson, history is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence... Read more

The Sage of Monticello

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more

East to the Dawn

By: Susan Butler

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928—and her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery.The image we have of Amelia Earhart today—a tousle-haired, androgynous flier clad in shirt, silk scarf, leather jacket, and goggles—is only one... Read more

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By: Susan Hertog

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first full-length study of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Susan Hertog pierces the public image of Anne and Charles to reveal their story from inside the marriage and gives us a true understanding of the author of the bestselling classic The Gift from the Sea.Susan Hertog plumbs the depths of Anne Lindbergh’s search for her own identity and... Read more

Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished, Pulitzer Prize–winning study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson's life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state; his retirement to Monticello; his assumption of the... Read more

Edison

By: Paul Israel

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 22 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention—from the preeminent Edison scholarThe conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds to become one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from... Read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. “For Carson, history is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence... Read more