History audiobooks

Admiral Horatio Nelson’s Greatest Victories

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but none of her military heroes has had a greater military legacy than Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté. Whether traveling to Trafalgar Square or one of the hundreds of pubs named after him, seemingly it becomes easy to... Read more

Lessons in Liberty

By: Jeremy S. Adams

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smart, patriotic, and readable, this book is what our cynical culture needs.” — Pete Hegseth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Battle for the American MindAmerica is full of inspiring heroes.Greatness is not a chance—it is a choice. George Washington didn’t simply wake up as one of the greatest men in human history. His greatness was the... Read more

The American Film Institute's 5 Greatest Actors

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1999, the American Film Institute released its list of the 50 greatest Hollywood stars of the 20th century, and selecting the best actors out of the bunch was certainly a tall task. The competition was so stacked that men like Gary Cooper and John Wayne were not even among the Top 10. So who were the Top 5 men selected by the AFI?One man has... Read more

The Mandate for Mesopotamia and Mandate for Palestine: The History of the Former Ottoman Territories Administered by the British after World War I

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson’s pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. While it would attempt to resolve some territorial disputes, it simply proved too weak to prevent... Read more

The Queens Who Fought Rome

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history’s most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.),... Read more

The Dreyfus Affair and the Leo Frank Trial: The History of the Most Notorious Antisemitic Cases in France and America

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 1890, among a pile of torn-up documents delivered by Mme. Bastian was found a note handwritten in French which, when pieced together, proved to be a list of French military secrets handed over to the Germans by an unknown French officer of the General Staff. This discovery, which proved the existence of a traitor in the department,... Read more

Spain’s Explorers in the Age of Discovery

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the... Read more

The Modern Discovery of Australia and New Zealand: The History of the Indigenous Natives and the Initial European Expeditions and Settlements

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea... Read more

Jesus, Contradicted

By: Michael R. Licona

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude that the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory and, therefore, historically unreliable accounts... Read more

Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures

By: Michael R. Licona

Narrated by: Michael R. Licona

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.The differences and... Read more

Glorious Lessons

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment



John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission... Read more

Nordische Mythologie: Ein fesselnder Überblick über nordische Mythen, Götter und Göttinnen

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Marko Kraft

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Wussten Sie, dass Loki der Vater der ungeheuren Kreaturen ist, von denen prophezeit wird, dass sie die Götter von Asgard töten werden?Als Heimdall in sein Horn bläst, um den Beginn von Ragnarök anzukündigen, bleibt den Göttern Asgards keine andere Wahl, als sich den Mächten des Chaos auf dem Schlachtfeld Vigrid zu stellen. Dies ist der Tag, an... Read more

The Hamilton Scheme

By: William Hogeland

Narrated by: William Hogeland

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and... Read more

There Was Nothing You Could Do

By: Steven Hyden

Narrated by: Steven Hyden

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.—a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America

On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in... Read more

Signs of Survival

By: Renee Hartman & Joshua M. Greene

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf.



I was my family's ears.



Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable—together. This is their true story.



As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee,... Read more

The Tory’s Wife

By: Cynthia A. Kierner

Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king... Read more

Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Irene Machado, Ramsé...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

En abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos que asisten al movimiento de liberación africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro años después del asesinato del presidente socialista democráticamente electo, Patrice Lumumba.
Porque el diario trata el admitido "fracaso" del Che, examina... Read more

Boss

By: Mike Royko

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.



Mike Royko's scathing and meticulously researched account follows Richard J. Daley's rise to power, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago's... Read more

Light-Horse Harry

By: Noel B. Gerson

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Lee learnt to ride before he was five, joined Washington's Army at nineteen, and was appointed Captain of the Fifth Troop of Virginia Dragoons at twenty. At twenty-two, Colonel Lee took command of a mixed cavalry and infantry unit known as "Lee's Legion"—the finest offensive team in the Continental Army. Nicknamed "Light-Horse Harry" for... Read more

The Call to Serve

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Jon Meacham

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of George H. W. Bush’s birth, this visually stunning chronicle features never-before-published photos and memories celebrating the forty-first president’s vision of leadership as service to country—curated by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham.

Lavishly illustrated, The Call to Serve is an... Read more

MacArthur Reconsidered

By: James Ellman

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure:... Read more

Frontline Bodies

By: Nicolas Martin-Breteau

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression.



Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent... Read more

Gunflint Burning

By: Cary J. Griffith

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll



Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake fire of 2007, one of the largest wildfires in Minnesota history. In sharp detail, Cary J. Griffith... Read more

The Playbook

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro

From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in... Read more