History audiobooks

A Conquering Spirit

By: Gregory A. Waselkov

Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Nationwide repercussions to a bloody battle on the southern frontier.



The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and... Read more

The Fish That Ate the Whale

By: Rich Cohen

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune

The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary

When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died... Read more

The Battle for Christmas

By: Stephen Nissenbaum

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST



Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children.



Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the... Read more

Cassino '44

By: James Holland

Narrated by: Al Murray

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the Italian Campaign in a masterful volume that brings new awareness to this vital hinge point of the war.

As the new year of 1944 began in Italy, the Allied army’s momentum had ground to a halt just south of the vaunted German Gustav Line of defense, far... Read more

Undercover with Mandela's Spies

By: Bradley Steyn & Mark Fine

Narrated by: Ashley Dowds

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms... Read more

Dancing Down the Barricades

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.



Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of... Read more

Let's Make Things Better

By: Gidon Lev

Narrated by: Yuval Dor, Julie Gray & Gidon Lev

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek—where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” —Gidon Lev

On May 8, 1945, when he was just ten years old, Gidon Lev was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp after four nightmarish years. Twenty-six family members,... Read more

The Driver’s Story

By: Randy M. Browne

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other... Read more

Henry Harrison Brown: Dollars want me

By: Henry Harrison Brown

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As a member of the "New Thought" movement, Henry Harrison Brown (1840 - 1918) founded the periodical "NOW". In this magazine, he first published his most famous essay "Dollars want me!" Brown presented positive affirmations which inevitably attract money and financial independence. Easy, concise, to the point: Brown states that without man,... Read more

The Bone Picker

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the... Read more

The Tensaw River

By: Mike Bunn

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tensaw River introduces one of the American South's richest and most fertile natural features. Author Mike Bunn is director of Historic Blakeley State Park, which is nestled in a prominent bend of the majestic Tensaw River.



Forming the eastern boundary of the expansive Mobile-Tensaw Delta, the Tensaw has had little industrial development.... Read more

Our Jackie

By: Karen M. Dunak

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon



When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two... Read more

Movies under the Influence

By: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two aspects of American culture resulted in them being treated and regulated in similar ways. Rather than looking at drug... Read more

The Embarrassment of Riches

By: Simon Schama

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's... Read more

Alexandria

By: Islam Issa

Narrated by: Islam Issa

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Islam Issa's father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library. And Alexandria is no ordinary city.



Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an authoritative history of a city that has shaped our modern world. Soon... Read more

Göring

By: Guido Knopp

Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Er war der zweitmächtigste Nazi-Führer, zeitweilig beliebter als Hitler selbst; er war leutselig und brutal. Fast alle Gewaltaktionen sind mit seinem Namen verbunden: Hermann Göring ebnete Adolf Hitler den Weg zur Macht, verkörperte das joviale Gesicht der NS-Diktatur und verfiel dem Wahn absoluter Herrschaft. Guido Knopp stieß bei den... Read more

The Mary We Forgot

By: Jennifer Powell McNutt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Magdalene's life was transformed when she was healed by Christ and joined his ministry from Galilee to Jerusalem. The Gospels teach that she was also a witness at the cross and the first one sent by Christ to preach his resurrection. Yet her story is often confused, scandalized, and undervalued by the church.



In The Mary We Forgot,... Read more

The Dead of Winter

By: Sarah Clegg

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis & Sarah Clegg

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the monsters, witches, and other ghoulish creatures that make up lesser known Christmas folklore in this gleefully creepy guide–perfect for horror fans who love the wintry holidays.

When you think about Christmas, you likely picture mangers, glowing fireplaces, sweet carolers, and snow-blanketed hills. But behind all this bright magic,... Read more

Thorns, Lust, and Glory

By: Estelle Paranque

Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England's Henry XVIII met her downfall–and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood.

Anne Boleyn has mesmerized the general public for centuries. Her tragic execution at the Tower of London on the 19th of May, 1536—orchestrated by... Read more

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

By: United States Office of Strategic Services

Narrated by: John Klickman

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The *Simple Sabotage Field Manual*, created in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), is a unique World War II-era document that provides guidance on simple methods of sabotage. Originally intended for citizens in enemy-occupied territories, it describes easy-to-execute tactics for disrupting enemy operations without special tools... Read more

There is No Finish

By: Stephen Parker

Narrated by: Stephen Parker

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There is No Finish introduces the exploding world of the Backyard Ultra. Birthed from the high school musings of Lazarus Lake, renowned for the Barkley Marathons, the running event has spread globally—to over eighty countries— with sky-rocketing numbers.
Runners have up to one hour to complete a 4.1-mile lap. At the start of the next hour, again... Read more

Weird History Facts That Will Put You to Sleep

By: Sleep Trivia

Narrated by: Matthew Ferguson

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Weird History Facts That Will Put You to Sleep" is a relaxing audiobook that blends curious and unusual historical tidbits with a calming bedtime experience. Narrated by a gentle male voice and set to soothing background music, each fact provides just enough intrigue to capture your attention without keeping you awake. From strange moments in... Read more

The Age of Reason Begins

By: Will Durant, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Cory Herndon

Length: 18 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We are the creations of history. We are also the creations of the history in this book. We cannot understand ourselves without understanding this history.

The early modern era in Europe set the mold for the Western world today. It was a complex, tragic, yet pivotal time. It marked the transition between the dominance of the Catholic church... Read more

Der Henker von Basel

By: F.H. Achermann

Narrated by: Daniel William

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In den düsteren Gassen Basels im 15. Jahrhundert verflechten sich Schicksale unter dem Schatten des Scharfrichters. "Der Henker von Basel" enthüllt die grausame und mitreißende Geschichte des Nachrichters Gilg Urner, eines Mannes, der im Dienste der Gerechtigkeit steht, doch von der Gesellschaft verachtet wird. Gebrandmarkt durch sein Amt und... Read more