History audiobooks

The Rolling Stones Discover America

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour across America that ended at Altamont. His long, intimate piece on the tour, THE ROLLING STONES DISCOVER AMERICA, captures the highs and lows of the grueling tour... Read more

The Sting Man

By: Robert W. Greene

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story behind the film AMERICAN HUSTLE
 
The Sting Man is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around the world, Weinberg netted millions and famously... Read more

Hurricane Hutch's Top 10 Ships of the Clyde (Unabridged)

By: Captain Robin L. Hutchison

Narrated by: Bill Paterson

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

HURRICANE HUTCH'S TOP 10 SHIPS OF THE CLYDE by Captain Robin L Hutchison. Narrated by Bill Paterson. The story of one of the Clyde's longest-serving captains and life on board some of Scotland's most iconic ships. 'Wry, sometimes daunting ... a lifetime as a Master Mariner' Scottish Daily Mail. Maid of Argyll, Queen Mary II, Cowal, Caledonia,... Read more

The Redemption Of The Soul Of A Writer

By: Alan Kaufman

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaufman grew up in the Bronx, the Jewish son of a Holocaust survivor. He recounts a most poignant tale of his trek to follow the footsteps of his mother’s escape from the Nazis. His two traveling companions are inexplicably sons of Nazis. With disarming candidness, he shares his story of sinking into alcoholism and his road to sobriety and writing. Read more

The Cave and the Light

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 25 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest... Read more

1940

By: Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency—Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie—found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and their charismatic spokesman... Read more

Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slav - Abridged

By: Willie Lynch

Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology... Read more

Book of Ages

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin' s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. Benjamin Franklin, who... Read more

Confederates in the Attic

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

My Promised Land

By: Ari Shavit

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra... Read more

Five Days in November

By: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.

On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for... Read more

Miracles and Massacres

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Glenn Beck

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset presents history as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling.

History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and... Read more

Strange Fire

By: John F. MacArthur

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Fire, bestselling author and pastor John MacArthur chronicles the unsavory history behind the modern Charismatic movement.What would God say about those who blatantly misrepresent His Holy Spirit; who exchange true worship for chaotic fits of mindless ecstasy; who replace the biblical gospel with vain illusions of health and wealth;... Read more

Princesses Behaving Badly

By: Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But the lives of real princesses couldn’t be more different. Sure, many were graceful and benevolent leaders—but just as many were ruthless in their quest for power, and all of them had... Read more

Civilian Warriors

By: Erik Prince

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world’s most controversial military contractor
Blackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes:
“Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives... Read more

Edmund Burke

By: Jesse Norman

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Revered by great Americans including... Read more

Caesar Rodney's Ride

By: Jan Cheripko

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 1, 1776, battling bad weather and physical handicaps, the great patriot Caesar Rodney embarked on his historical ride to Philadelphia, where he would cast his vote for independence and help ensure the birth of the United States. Read more

Lucky 13

By: Richard Hilliard

Narrated by: Brian David & Jodi Dick

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroism in outer space is the legacy of the lunar mission Apollo 13. On April 11, 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were launched into space as the crew of Apollo 13. Their mission, like the missions of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, was to explore the lunar surface. But that mission was never completed. As they began the... Read more

Facing the Wave

By: Gretel Ehrlich

Narrated by: Sumalee Montano

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration... Read more

The Courage to Be Protestant

By: David Wells

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. These words begin this bold work—the culmination of David Wells' long-standing critique of the evangelical landscape. But to live as a true Protestant—that's another matter.This book is a jeremiad against new versions of Evangelicalism—the Marketing and Emergent Churches—and a call to return to... Read more

The Life of Greece

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 32 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume 2 chronicles the history of ancient Greek civilization. Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece, from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the... Read more

The Crash of 2016

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash.

The United States is in the midst of an economic implosion... Read more

Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

By: Fred Vogelstein

Narrated by: J. P. Demont

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology

The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the... Read more

27

By: Howard Sounes

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. "I told him not to." Kurt's mom was referring to the... Read more