History audiobooks

La conquista española de América: Un apasionante repaso a los conquistadores y sus conquistas de los imperios azteca e incaico

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

La conquista española de las Américas es una parte fundamental de la historia de la colonización.El descubrimiento hecho por Cristóbal Colón, aunque accidental, de una nueva masa de tierra puso el mundo patas arriba. A partir de finales del siglo XV, el reino de España encabezó el esfuerzo de colonización, enviando una expedición tras otra a las... Read more

El Renacimiento: Una apasionante guía sobre un periodo de resurgimiento de las artes, las ciencias y la cultura

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Le resultan familiares los nombres de Miguel Ángel, Leonardo da Vinci y Rafael?Si es así, ya está familiarizado con el Renacimiento, que supuso un renacimiento de las artes y las ciencias. Se produjeron grandes avances en varios campos y muchos hombres se hicieron un nombre creando obras maestras o desarrollando nuevas teorías, aunque para... Read more

Continental Reckoning

By: Elliott West

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History



In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant... Read more

La regina Elena di Savoia all'Altare della Patria. 1935.

By: Elena di Savoia

Narrated by: Elena di Savoia

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

La Regina Elena di Savoia depone la fede nuziale all'altare della Patria, il giorno di Natale del 1935. Read more

Dichiarazione di guerra - 10 giugno 1940

By: Benito Mussolini

Narrated by: Benito Mussolini

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Questo agghiacciante documento sonoro riporta la voce di Benito Mussolini che annuncia la dichiarazione di guerra contro Francia e Inghilterra il 10 giugno 1940 da Palazzo Venezia a Roma. Mai più la guerra! Read more

Unica registrazione della voce di Gabriele D'Annunzio

By: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Narrated by: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Quella contenuta in questo brevissimo documento sonoro è forse l'unica registrazione esistente della voce di Gabriele D'Annunzio. Read more

The Spice Ports

By: Nicholas Nugent

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

We may think of "globalism" as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade, and profit. These voyages only became possible after certain technical innovations—improvements in ship design, compasses, and... Read more

Yankee Doodle Dandy

By: Elizabeth Titrington Craft

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy," and his statue stands in the heart of the New York theater district. Cohan's early... Read more

Black Flora

By: Teresa J. Speight

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the growing community of Black floriculture leading the new vanguard in flowers.

Black Flora is the first book to feature profiles of contemporary Black experts innovating in the world of flowers. Author and longtime gardener, Teresa Speight, offers a beautiful intersection of flowers and community. This book is a homecoming, one that... Read more

Andrew Johnson

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office



Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.... Read more

Marching Orders

By: Bruce Lee

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 24 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military's breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict. With unprecedented access to over one million pages of US Army documents and thousands of pages of top-secret messages dispatched... Read more

Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart

By: Russ Ramsey

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond a mere introduction to great art, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart is about loving to learn what art has to teach us about the wonder and struggle of being alive.Did you know that: Vincent van Gogh's attempt to start an artist's colony with Paul Gauguin lasted only nine weeks, ending in his infamous "ear episode"? Pablo Picasso was a prime... Read more

Christmas TV Memories

By: Herbie J Pilato

Narrated by: Steve Marvel

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from television's holiday presentations. The world loves everything from iconic cartoons like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas to the groundbreaking Julia sitcom segment, "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas," Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the... Read more

The Challenge of Acts

By: N. T. Wright

Narrated by: N. T. Wright

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.A new and inviting introduction to the Acts of the Apostles from New Testament scholar and theologian N. T. Wright.Acts is a substantial book. It sits right in the middle of the New Testament, looking back to the four Gospels and ahead to the mission of the early church. It provides a framework for our understanding of the... Read more

American Judaism

By: Nathan Glazer

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

First published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable story . . . told briefly and clearly by an objective historical mind, yet with a fine combination of sociological insight and... Read more

Colonial Wars, 1689-1762

By: Howard H. Peckham

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of which they were, in varying degrees, a part:... Read more

The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

By: Carol Cooper

Narrated by: Carol Cooper

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today.

Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to the inventive and impressive, this captivating read is peppered... Read more

The American Supreme Court, Sixth Edition

By: Robert G. McCloskey & Sanford Levinson

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. 

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court.

As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his... Read more

How To End Christian Nationalism

By: Amanda Tyler

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Christian nationalism is a powerful and pervasive ideology, and it is becoming normalized. From Amanda Tyler, lead organizer of the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign, comes How to End Christian Nationalism, your vital companion for countering this dangerous ideology. Tyler draws on her experiences, conversations with pastors and... Read more

Bandit Heaven

By: Tom Clavin

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"The entire cowboy-outlaw era, which reached its climax in 1897 and ended around 1905, comes vividly alive in this kaleidoscopic work ... countless other instances of robbing, stealing and retribution, are woven splendidly into this rousing saga of the closing years of the outlaw epoch of the American West." —Wall Street Journal

From multiple New... Read more

The Rainbow Age of Television

By: Shayna Maci Warner

Narrated by: Shayna Maci Warner

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

With the last decade's television boom across a multitude of platforms, American audiences are being treated to a cascade of shows that some have trumpeted as a second Golden Age. But something completely new is stirring, too—the Rainbow Age. For the first time in the history of American television, we have shows in which LGBTQIA+ characters... Read more

How to Lose a War

By: Amin Saikal

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul



In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On August 15, 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed... Read more

American Railroads

By: John F. Stover

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. 

Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have... Read more

El Imperio bizantino para niños: Una guía fascinante del Imperio romano de Oriente

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Luis Trumper

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

¿De qué manera el Imperio bizantino, que cayó en 1453, sigue siendo relevante para nosotros hoy en día?Muchos de nosotros no sabemos mucho sobre el Imperio bizantino; subsistió en Oriente tras la caída del Imperio romano, pero su historia de mil años está llena de innovaciones que han cambiado nuestra forma de crear arte, redactar leyes y pensar... Read more