History audiobooks

The Golden Age of Piracy

By: David Head

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth– and eighteenth–century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays.



The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and... Read more

Before the Movement

By: Dylan C. Penningroth

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided... Read more

A War Made in Russia

By: Sergei Medvedev

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin's regime and of Russia's entire imperial history. Building on his prize-winning book The... Read more

Strong Passions

By: Barbara Weisberg

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by... Read more

Judaism Is About Love

By: Shai Held

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.

A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread... Read more

A Hard Rain

By: Frye Gaillard

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 25 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer's reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era—one that, for better or worse, lives with us still."



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It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls

By: Adam Nayman

Narrated by: Brian Telestai

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that... Read more

Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks

By: Andy Burns

Narrated by: Marcus Zarco

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Damn good coffee, cherry pie, and the “big bang of auteur television” ― why Twin Peaks deserves to be a pop culture classic In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the... Read more

American Vikings

By: Martyn Whittock

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have... Read more

Reading the Constitution

By: Stephen Breyer

Narrated by: Stephen Breyer

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In a provocative and brilliant analysis, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a more pragmatic approach of the Constitution.

“You will not read a more important legal work this election year.” —Bob Woodward, Washington Post... Read more

Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

By: Richard Rosenbaum

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon ― from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s, and up to the... Read more

Chasing Beauty

By: Natalie Dykstra

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its... Read more

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French politician and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Jesus and the Powers

By: N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent call for Christians everywhere to explore the nature of the kingdom amid the political upheaval of our day.Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their prophetic voice and to keep from being used as political pawns? Or should Christians be actively involved, seeking to utilize... Read more

Herod the Great

By: Martin Goodman

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution



Herod the Great (73–4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the... Read more

Vagabond Princess

By: Ruby Lal

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a... Read more

Israel and the Cyber Threat

By: Gabi Siboni, Charles D. Freilich & Matthew S. C...

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive study of Israel's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present. They analyze Israel's highly advanced civil and military cyber capabilities and organizational structures to offer insights into what... Read more

The Last American Frontier

By: Frederic Logan Paxson

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and... Read more

God's Ghostwriters

By: Candida Moss

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.

For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of... Read more

Swallowed by the Great Land

By: Seth Kantner

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know." —Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever



When Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely... Read more

God Gave Rock and Roll to You

By: Leah Payne

Narrated by: Leah Payne

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Few things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the "menace to Christendom" known as rock and roll. The raucous sounds of Elvis Presley and Little Richard seemed tailor-made to destroy the faith of their young and, in the process, undermine the moral... Read more

The Battle of the Bulge

By: Martin King

Narrated by: Mack Gordon

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Martin King tells the human side of the story of the Battle of the Bulge better than anyone."Commander Jeffrey Barta, US Navy (retired)
"I have walked the battlefields with Martin King, who has traversed them countless times with veterans of the Bulge. No one knows this story like Martin, and no one can tell it quite the way he does."Rick... Read more

Stories from Kathasaritasagara series - 11

By: Anusha HS

Narrated by: Anusha HS

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas... Read more

Crie de manhã, administre à tarde

By: Mauricio de Sousa, Renata Sturm & Guther Faggion

Narrated by: Renata Sturm

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

UM MAURICIO, DOIS MAURICIOS... Quando pesquisamos a palavra "negócios" associada ao Mauricio de Sousa, não há muito conteúdo disponível. Este Mauricio (empreendedor) por trás do Mauricio (criativo) certamente é uma das facetas menos conhecidas de um homem que se tornou parte do imaginário do brasileiro por quatro gerações. É difícil... Read more