History audiobooks

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Narrated by: Kate Fleming

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing her husband, Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to support herself and her daughter. In 1909 she took a job working for a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. Subsequently she filed her own claim and married the rancher. The letters she wrote to her former employer over several years are packed with delightful stories and... Read more

Jefferson's Demons

By: Michael Beran

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Though he was a great statesman, one of America's founding fathers, and the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson suffered from depression. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran examines episodes of melancholia in Jefferson's life. In particular, he focuses on the journey Jefferson made to Europe in 1787 to escape the... Read more

History of the World (Updated)

By: J. M. Roberts

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 54 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In his monumental History of the World, J. M. Roberts delivered a powerful vision of human history as a story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. This revised and updated edition takes into account the great range of events and discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post–Cold... Read more

Secret Empire

By: Philip Taubman

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering." ... Read more

Measuring America

By: Andro Linklater

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"This expertly written and eminently enjoyable chronicle is highly recommended for history and history of science collections." —Library Journal



"Make room on the library shelf for the never-before-told saga of the survey that converted the vast wilderness west of the Ohio River into a commodity marked out for government sale." —Booklist,... Read more

They Marched Into Sunlight - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.

With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of... Read more

In the Wake of the Plague

By: Norman F. Cantor

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark... Read more

The Darkest Jungle

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers... Read more

John Paul Jones

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."



John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a... Read more

The Real America

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, delivers a compelling, patriotic, and spiritually driven message to inspire you to help lead us back to that place that is quickly being forgotten...THE REAL AMERICA.

Glenn Beck has entertained, inspired, and informed millions with his self-effacing humor, heartfelt conviction,... Read more

The Bravest Man

By: William Tuohy

Narrated by: E.H. Jones

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s no margin for mistakes in submarines. You’re either alive or dead.”
–Richard O’Kane

Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank more enemy ships and saved more downed fliers than anyone else.

Now Pulitzer Prize—winning author... Read more

American Patriots

By: Gail Buckley

Narrated by: Robert Stuart

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and culminating with Desert Storm.

The best histories are about more than facts and events — they... Read more

The Borderlands of Science

By: Michael Shermer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more

A Man of Contradictions

By: Richard Ollard

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A. L. Rowse proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan.

In this clear-sighted and absorbing biography,... Read more

Silent Night

By: Stanley Weintraub

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to continue shooting, the unofficial truce spread across the front lines. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible: Germans placed candlelit Christmas trees on... Read more

America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In America's First Dynasty, Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still greatest dynasty -- the Adamses, the only family in our history to play a leading role in American affairs for... Read more

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American... Read more

A Thread Across the Ocean

By: John Steele Gordon

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.

But in 1866, the... Read more

Castles of Steel

By: Robert K. Massie

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 40 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.

The predominant... Read more

Robert E. Lee

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, a complex soul, and a Southerner to the core. Tapped by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army in the Civil War, his Virginian roots led him to command the Confederates instead. A charismatic though reluctant leader, his military audacity and tactical genius were combined with a genuine and sorrowful... Read more

Joseph Smith

By: Robert V. Remini

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The most important reformer and innovator in American religious history, Joseph Smith has remained a fascinating enigma to many, both inside and outside the Mormon Church he founded. Born in 1805, Smith grew up during the "Second Great Awakening," when secular tumult had spawned radical religious fervor and countless new sects. His... Read more

Preachers of Hate

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more

Like No Other Time

By: Tom Daschle

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.

The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... Read more

Darby's Rangers - Abridged

By: William O. Darby

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

The exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words

From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby’s Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II—the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and... Read more