History audiobooks

Willie, Waylon, and the Boys

By: Brian Fairbanks

Narrated by: Tyler Darby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell,... Read more

On the Ends of Good and Evil

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Robin Homer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Cicero sets out the three major Greek philosophies: Epicureanism, Stoicism and Aristotelianism (or Peripateticism), by recounting his conversations with Lucius Torquatus, Marcus Cato and Piso.
He then provides his commentary and criticisms of each.
The volume was written in the summer of the year 45 BC a few years before Cicero's assassination at... Read more

Impossible City

By: Simon Kuper

Narrated by: Tim Frances

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.

When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other
plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the... Read more

US Citizenship Test Study Guide

By: Daniel Winslow

Narrated by: Connor Sullivan & Eric Holt

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

FREE printable Flashcards with 100 Civic questions INCLUDED!
Do you feel daunted by the prospect of the US citizenship test, unsure of where to start or how to prepare effectively?
Are you concerned about mastering the English proficiency and Civics topics required for the exam?
Do you envision a smoother path to citizenship, equipped with the... Read more

I Don't Want to Go Home

By: Nick Corasaniti

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella & Jim Meskimen

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey—featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes, the Ramones, the Jonas Brothers, Jack Antonoff, and other legendary musicians.In 1970,... Read more

The Wrong Stuff

By: John Strausbaugh

Narrated by: LJ Ganser

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.

In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of... Read more

Invisible Doctrine

By: George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison

Narrated by: George Monbiot

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism—and shows us how to fight back.

“Incisive, illuminating, eye-opening—an unsparing anatomy of the great ideological beast stalking our times,... Read more

The Hidden History of the White House

By: Corey Mead

Narrated by: Lindsay Graham & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happenedFor more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic... Read more

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

By: Julie Satow

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Amazon Best Book of 2024 • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. • "Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the... Read more

Why War?

By: Richard Overy

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight.



Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether... Read more

Polymath

By: Eric Laursen

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 31 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Comfort was a British poet, novelist, biologist, cultural critic, activist, and anarchist, and the author of the international bestseller, The Joy of Sex. He played a vital role in making gerontology (the study of aging) a viable branch of modern science, energizing the direct-action movement for nuclear disarmament, revitalizing anarchism... Read more

The Roman Revolution

By: Nick Holmes

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome.... Read more

The Light of Battle

By: Michel Paradis

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.""This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."" —DAVID KENNEDY, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History |... Read more

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Martin Luther King, Bernice A. King & Blair Und...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingCelebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollinsOn August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before... Read more

In the Shadows

By: Mickey Bergman & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen & Mickey Bergman

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.

Who else are their desperate loved ones supposed to call? Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for... Read more

NATO

By: Sten Rynning

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary



For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under... Read more

How to Get Over a Breakup

By: Ovid

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love, he then wrote Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris), which... Read more

Von Erasmus von Rotterdam bis Jean Jacques Rousseau

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Erasmus von Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Baltasar Gracian, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Read more

The Explorers

By: Amanda Bellows

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.""Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written."" —David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

The Other Olympians

By: Michael Waters

Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality." —Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life

“This riveting audiobook brings all the facts and showcases why we need to acknowledge true history in today’s social... Read more

Invisible Labor

By: Rachel Somerstein

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but “routine.” A series of errors by her clinicians led to... Read more

The War on Warriors

By: Pete Hegseth

Narrated by: Pete Hegseth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSEReal men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color... Read more

The Fall of Roe

By: Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer

Narrated by: Lipica Shah

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most important book in the lead up to this election.” —Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC

“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.” —New York magazine

“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.” —Alex Wagner on Alex Wagner Tonight

This program... Read more

I Have Your Back

By: Tom Sileo

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness.

Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike’s deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved... Read more