History audiobooks

Ghosts of Crook County

By: Russell Cobb

Narrated by: Chris Baetens

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed

For readers of David Grann’s award-winning Killers of the Flower Moon

In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American Century,” few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men... Read more

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?

By: Dana Frank

Narrated by: Jenna Rose Stein

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression

Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era.

In four tales, Professor Dana Frank... Read more

Born with a Tail

By: Doug Brod

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans could welcome a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic would put a target on his shiny, shaven head.

When Anton LaVey burst onto... Read more

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

By: Robert Hunter

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Dennis McNally, Brigid Meier & Joh...

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself—with a Foreword... Read more

Hotel Lux

By: Maurice J. Casey

Narrated by: Maurice Casey

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters.



Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in... Read more

The Ballad Of The White Horse

By: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"The Last Great Epic Poem in the English Language"
- Dale Ahlquist
"The ending is absurd. The brilliant smash and glitter of the words and phrases (when they come off, and are not mere loud colours) cannot disguise the fact that G. K. C. knew nothing whatever about the 'North', heathen or Christian."
- JRR Tolkien
The tale of King Alfred, the... Read more

Tremendous Trifles

By: GK Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful and whimsical collection of short essays on everything from sketching on brown paper and building toy theatres to the nature of Englishness and faith.
"Tremendous Trifles contains simply some of the best essays Chesterton ever wrote. They originally appeared in the Daily News, which Chesterton contributed to from 1901 to 1913, and... Read more

Japan's Holocaust

By: Bryan Mark Rigg, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan... Read more

Alarms & Discursions

By: GK Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the... Read more

Slaveroad

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: David Sadzin

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.

John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great... Read more

The Burning Earth

By: Sunil Amrith

Narrated by: Esh Alladi

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024



In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of... Read more

Skid Road

By: Murray Morgan

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Skid Road tells the story of Seattle "from the bottom up," offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City's first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city's history from its earliest days as a... Read more

Japanese Folktales and Legends: An Enthralling Collection of Stories, Mythical Creatures, Heroes, and Timeless Tales

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the Heart of Japan Through Its Legendary StoriesStep into the world of Japanese folklore, where a samurai’s sword is more than just a weapon—it’s a symbol of honor, courage, and the samurai way of life. This audiobook takes you on a journey through the stories that have shaped Japanese culture for centuries.Discover the enduring power of... Read more

The Freedom Shield

By: Maj. John D. Falcon (Ret)

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire.



The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, who were tasked with carrying troops into battle, attacking enemy positions, and evacuating the wounded in their UH-1... Read more

El Ataque a Pearl Harbor El Día De La Infamia

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

El 7 de diciembre de 1941, un ataque sorpresa de las fuerzas japonesas sobre la base naval de Pearl Harbor cambió el rumbo de la historia. Este trágico suceso llevó a los Estados Unidos a entrar en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un conflicto que ya asolaba gran parte del mundo. En este libro, se examina minuciosamente lo ocurrido antes, durante y... Read more

Vigilante Nation

By: Jon Michaels & David Noll

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy—and prescribe a plan for beating the Christian nationalists at their own game.

Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white... Read more

Selling Sexy

By: Lauren Sherman & Chantal Fernandez

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the brand’s tight grip on the industry finally slipped

Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential... Read more

Kidnapped at Sea

By: Andrew Sillen

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TRUE STORY OF DAVID HENRY WHITE, A FREE BLACK TEENAGE SAILOR ENSLAVED ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR, WHOSE LIFE STORY WAS FALSELY AND INTENTIONALLY APPROPRIATED TO ADVANCE THE LOST CAUSE TROPE OF A CONTENTED SLAVE, HAPPY AND SAFE IN SERVILITY.David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by... Read more

Castro Alves - Crianças Famosas - Abridged

By: Myriam Fraga

Narrated by: Kely Rodrigues

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, o Poeta dos Escravos, nasceu em 1847, no interior da Bahia. Graças à amizade que tivera com o filho de uma escrava, ele empenhou-se na luta pelos direitos dos negros no Brasil. Este livro narra a infância de Castro Alves, poeta brasileiro do período do Romantismo, que ficou famoso por suas palavras de exaltação... Read more

Chopin

By: Anne-Marie Deraspe

Narrated by: Michel Keable

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Tu te demandes sans doute pourquoi je viens te parler de la musique de Frédéric Chopin né en 1810. Crois-le ou non, c’est qu’il est toujours en vogue, et non seulement dans les salles de concert. Figure-toi qu’on retrouve sa musique dans des jeux vidéo que tu connais sans doute. Read more

The Era of Liberation

By: Louis Kossuth, Abraham Lincoln, Swami Vivekanan...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality.
We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he... Read more

Civil War in the Roman Republic

By: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Mark Anthony, Caius M...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how easily they could be translated into a modern day context. Frequently, a speech has reminded me of the news of the day, somewhere in the world. Nowhere has this been more evident than in these speeches. Given over two thousand years ago, every single one could be applied... Read more

The Birth of Anarchism

By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Louis ...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than just choosing how to meet the needs and demands of capital. Inequality is structural and intentional, not inevitable and necessary.
It does not have to be this way. In solidarity, we are better.
Think for yourself, and question authority.
This is the essence... Read more

The Rise of Socialism

By: William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein,...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.
William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall... Read more