History audiobooks

Uncrowned

By: Ashley Mantle

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwined with that of the nation. They would be raised with the expectation that they would eventually take their place on the throne and rule the land. But not all those expected to wear the crown completed... Read more

O Livro dos Mortos

By: Camelot Editora

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta edição traz uma antologia de hinos compilados de diversos livros funerários egípcios, o Livro do Mortos de sacerdotes, oficiais, cantores, dançarinas e outros que viveram e morreram há milênios, em uma sociedade extremamente religiosa. Além dos hinos originais, este livro contém uma introdução ao Livro dos Mortos escrita pelo prestigiado... Read more

The Sikh Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Origins, Battles, and Legacy of the 19th-Century Anglo-Sikh Conflicts

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the Saga of the Sikh Empire and Its Last Stand against the British Raj In this audiobook, the astonishing chronicle of the Sikh Empire unfolds, revealing a story of valor, resilience, and the fierce clash of empires. This audiobook is a portal to a bygone era, where the Sikh Army, hailed as the most formidable Indian force the British... Read more

Do Contrato Social

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Publicado em 1762, durante o período do Iluminismo, “Do Contrato Social” é uma obra de profunda reflexão e questionamento sobre a natureza humana e a organização política. Rousseau parte do pressuposto de que os seres humanos são naturalmente livres e iguais, mas que a sociedade corrompe essa liberdade e impõe desigualdades. Ao propor a ideia... Read more

König Ludwig II. von Bayern: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

König Ludwig II. von Bayern, sagenumwobener Schöngeist und tragische Figur: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

The Viking Saint

By: John Carr

Narrated by: Maria Isabel Pita

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional... Read more

Segredos do Império Maia

By: Felipe Boschetti

Narrated by: Gabriel Maciel

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra percorre uma incrível história de mistérios, batalhas e conquistas, trazendo uma visão fascinante a respeito dessa enigmática civilização que deixou um legado único na região da América central e cujas tradições permanecem vivas em diversos países.Mil anos antes da chegada dos espanhóis à América Central, um império como nunca antes... Read more

तख्त (Takhta)

By: Sanjay Sonawani

Narrated by: Vishakha Sonawale

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

शाहजादा अकबराला आलमगिर औरंगजेबापासून तोडण्याच्या संभाजी महाराजांच्या  प्रयत्नांना अखेर यश मिळते. अकबर दुर्गादास राठोड आणि असंतुष्ट राजपुतांच्या पाठींब्यावर औरंगजेबाविरुद्ध बंड करून स्वत:ला सार्वभौम पातशहा घोषित करतो. संभाजी महाराजांच्या पाठींब्याने राजपूत आणि अकबर आपल्याविरुद्ध एकत्र येणे म्हणजे आपल्या सत्तेला धोका हे ओळखून औरंगजेबाच्या राजकीय... Read more

Madame: Minna Craucherin levoton elämä

By: Kari Selén

Narrated by: Tuija Kosonen

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanki, valemiljonääri, vakooja. Vuonna 1891 vaatimattomiin oloihin syntynyt Maria Lindell tunnetaan paremmin nimellä Minna Craucher. Pikkurikollisena toiminut Lindell päätti 1920-luvulla luoda itsensä uudelleen vapauduttuaan jälleen kerran vankilasta. Syntyi madame Minna Craucher, hurmaava ja viehättävä seurapiirinainen. Järjestelmällisesti... Read more

Rebellion

By: Robert Kagan

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual

The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of... Read more

The Swans of Harlem

By: Karen Valby

Narrated by: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Ab...

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.

“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!” —Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy

“Utterly... Read more

Broken Trust

By: Samuel P. King & Randall W. Roth

Narrated by: Louise Keali‘iloma King Lanzilotti

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property--known as Bishop Estate--to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai‘i: Kamehameha Schools. A century later, Bishop Estate controlled... Read more

We Shook Up the World

By: Tracy Daugherty

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and... Read more

Deutschlands fette Jahre sind vorbei

By: Schnabl

Narrated by: Peter Paulun

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Noch gehört Deutschland zu den reichsten Ländern der Welt. Ob Eurokrise, Flüchtlingswelle, Corona-Pandemie und Beginn des Ukrainekriegs – die deutsche Wirtschaft zeigte sich robust. Doch die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, es geht immer weiter abwärts. Überall. Und das hat nicht nur mit externen Krisen zu tun. Der wirtschaftliche Niedergang und der... Read more

Kingfish

By: Richard D. White, Jr.

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his ... Read more

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jean-Michel Basquiat, amerikanischer Künstler der Superlative: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Power and Glory

By: Alexander Larman

Narrated by: Alexander Larman & Sophie Roberts

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an introduction read by the author.

Alexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion.

When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the day was illusory. Britain... Read more

The Performer

By: Richard Sennett

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics



In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. Sennett is... Read more

Liberty Equality Fashion

By: Anne Higonnet

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee & Anne Higonnet

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and... Read more

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900

By: Sandra M. Gustafson

Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the... Read more

Roe v. Dobbs

By: Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end—once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to... Read more

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash

By: Stephen R. Bown

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his... Read more

Final Verdict

By: Tobias Buck

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.

Bruno... Read more

Daughters of Copper Woman

By: Anne Cameron

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking... Read more