History audiobooks

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras

By: Odie Henderson

Narrated by: Odie Henderson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism



In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an... Read more

10/7

By: Lee Yaron

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.

On October 7, 2023—the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot—the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air,... Read more

Radio Free Afghanistan

By: Saad Mohseni & Jenna Krajeski

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how... Read more

Me and Mr. Jones

By: Suzi Ronson

Narrated by: Suzi Ronson

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying memoir taking listeners behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history.



Suzi Ronson was working in an English hair salon in the early 1970s when Mrs. Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set. After being introduced to her son, David, and his... Read more

The Gates of Gaza

By: Amir Tibon

Narrated by: Amir Tibon

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023 by Tibon’s own father—an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that led to Hamas’s attacks that day.
 
On the morning... Read more

First the Patient

By: Barrett Rollins

Narrated by: Barrett Rollins

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced account of a giant of twentieth century medicine, First the Patient details how David Nathan saved patients with his medical skill and rescued institutions with his visionary leadership.



The miraculous triumphs of modern medicine—antibiotics, insulin, cancer cures, longer and better lives—are the fruits of its firm grounding in... Read more

Moguls

By: Michael Benson & Craig Singer

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not have been household names like the Warner brothers or Louis B. Mayer, but they were infinitely more powerful, influential—and ruthless. A pair of Russian immigrants with giant ambitions, the Schencks turned their small nickelodeon business in New York's... Read more

What Happened to Belen

By: Ana Elena Correa

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

""There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice.""—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Foreword by Margaret AtwoodThe heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist... Read more

Exvangelical and Beyond

By: Blake Chastain

Narrated by: Blake Chastain

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer of the “exvangelical” movement examines how toxic right-wing beliefs took over American Christianity—and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against it

With the rise of Trumpism, the American evangelical movement has more political influence than ever—yet at the same time, people are leaving Christianity in record... Read more

The Holy Roman Empire: An Enthralling Overview of One of the Most Powerful European States during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the Holy Roman Empire: The Empire That Shaped Modern EuropeStep into the fascinating story of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful force that connected the old world to the new. This audiobook shows how the empire's impact is still felt today, from the battles of World War I to the ideas behind Nazi Germany. Learn about the empire's rise... Read more

Historia de Francia: Un apasionante recorrido por los principales acontecimientos y personajes

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Francia es un país absolutamente cargado de historia. Siempre ha sido una nación líder de Europa Occidental y, en muchos sentidos, podría decirse que Francia es Europa Occidental.Se puede afirmar tal cosa sin temor a equivocarse debido a la larga historia de los estados franceses que han tomado las riendas de la historia mundial. Antes de que... Read more

آقوال سائیکل کا نٹشیل: انسانی تہذیب کی 84 سالہ تال (2024)

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

گزشتہ چند دشکوں کے دوران دنیا کا زیادہ تر حصہ تیزی سے تنزلی کا شکار رہا ہے اور ہر گزرتے سال کے ساتھ ایسا لگتا ہے کہ ایک نئے نادر پر پہنچ رہا ہے جس کا کوئی خاتمہ نظر نہیں آتا؛ کسی کو حیرت ہے کہ کیا یہ ایک نیا نورمل ہے یا چل رہا پاگلپن آخر کار ختم ہو جائے گا تاکہ ایک نئی چمکدار صبح شروع ہو سکے۔خوشقسمتی سے، قدرت ماں نے ہمیں "آقوال سائیکل" نام کے... Read more

King of the Gunrunners

By: James W. Miller

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A master of ships with a thunderous voice, Hart aggressively carried tropical fruit to an insatiable market with little concern for notions of supply and demand. But when an unexpected crisis hit the fruit... Read more

Republic

By: Alice Hunt

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650s Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction. It was a time of bewildering change and uncertainty, but it... Read more

Selling Vero Beach

By: Kristalyn Marie Shefveland

Narrated by: Katie Koster

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Themes of unspoiled paradise tamed by progress can be seen in stories about pioneer history across the US, especially in Florida. Selling Vero Beach explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida's Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous peoples and marketing the land as an... Read more

Predator of the Seas

By: Stephen Taylor

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people



In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to the Preventative Squadron, she patrolled the west coast of Africa and freed 3,692 captives... Read more

Priests of History

By: Sarah Irving-Stonebraker

Narrated by: Kellie Jones

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How can Christians engage meaningfully with history?In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the "Ahistoric Age," in which we are profoundly disconnected from history.In the attempt to appear... Read more

A History of Russia

By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky & Mark D. Steinberg

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 33 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a... Read more

Jewish Life in Medieval Spain

By: Jonathan Ray

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution of the book is the integration of the rise and fall of Jewish life in Muslim al-Andalus into the history of the Jews in medieval Christian... Read more

The Involuntary American

By: Carol Gardner

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1650–51, 150 ragged Scottish prisoners of war arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for twenty to thirty pounds each. Among them was Thomas Doughty, a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle of Dunbar. Doughty was among some 420 Scottish soldiers who were captured during the War... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 7

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 8

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Finding Oz

By: Evan I. Schwartz

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking new look at an American icon, The Wizard of Oz. Finding Oz tells the remarkable tale behind one of the world’s most enduring and best loved stories. Offering profound new insights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 masterwork, it delves into the personal turmoil and spiritual transformation that fueled... Read more

A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop

By: Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz

Narrated by: Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Grab your beverage of choice, we’re going back on the road! Bringing you A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop, from the New York Times Bestselling authors of true crime/supernatural podcast And That’s Why We Drink!

From the truest crimes to the spookiest supernaturals, this guide will have even more illustrated stories, beverage pit stops, and ice... Read more