History audiobooks

Sex On Soaps: Afternoon Love & Lust On Television Daytime Dramas

By: Matthew W. Grant

Narrated by: Jeannie Lin

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex On Soaps looks at love and lust on television daytime dramas. It's a must read for any soap fan, student of the genre, or anyone interested in the presentation of sexual content on television.SECTION 1 – SEX ON SOAPSEnjoying the dual role of soap fan and soap researcher, Matthew W. Grant earned his degree in Mass Communications after... Read more

Titan

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 35 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award–winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on... Read more

William Jones: The March on Washington

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian William P. Jones joins Gwen Ifill to offer an overview of how the March on Washington came to be, why President Kennedy feared it would cause negative aftermath and what roles women of color played on that historic day. Their discussion is one a series of conversations looking back at the legacy of August 28, 1963. Read more

Thunder Below!

By: Eugene B. Fluckey

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II.... Read more

Rendezvous With Destiny

By: Michael Fullilove

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Fullilove's work on global affairs has appeared in major publications such as the New York Times. In Rendezvous with Destiny, Fullilove examines the exceptional men at the heart of America's transformation into a global power. Read more

NPR American Chronicles: Exploring Space

By: NPR

Narrated by: Joe Palca

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the competitive spirit ignited by Sputnik to the tragedies and triumphs of the Apollo missions, from the technological leap forward created by the Space Shuttle to the global cooperation forged by the International Space Station and beyond, NPR examines the inspirational story of modern space exploration and the extraordinary individuals... Read more

It's Not as Bad as You Think

By: Brian S. Wesbury

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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These Few Precious Days

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the original power couple—outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kenne┬¡dys in their final year together, #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Christopher Andersen shows us a side of JFK and Jackie we've never seen before. Tender, intimate, complex,... Read more

Weather and Warfare

By: Robert Child

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Weather and Warfare dramatically retraces the meteorological forces during battlefield engagements that doomed or saved civilizations. In 1588 more than half of the Spanish Armada, on its way around northern Britain, was destroyed by storms in retreat back to Spain. Napoleon’s attack on Russia was stopped cold by winter weather, as was Hitler’s... Read more

Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life

By: Somethin' Else

Narrated by: Lucy Kellaway

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's Britain, more and more people spend longer at an office than ever before. It dominates lives. It's made more people middle class, transformed the lot of women, raised standards in education and been the reason for many technological advances. But the office itself seems to have no history and people accept without question the way... Read more

Indians, Cowboys, and Farmers and the Battle for the Great Plains

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Trials of Laura Fair

By: Carole Haber

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot and killed her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair’s lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded... Read more

Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Butler

By: Wil Haygood

Narrated by: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo &...

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen—a White House butler who served eight presidents over the course of thirty-four years.

During the presidencies of Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan,... Read more

Shot All to Hell

By: Mark Lee Gardner

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time.
 
Follow the Wild West’s most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield’s First National Bank and back out on the streets to square off with heroic citizens who risked... Read more

The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish

By: Cheryl Harness

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A short, red-headed and red-faced man with a bold personality, Myles Standish is remembered for his soldierly defense of the Mayflower Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. But he was just one participant in a legendary struggle for the colony's survival in a harsh new world. Departing from Holland, the Pilgrims fought off hunger, disease, and terrifying... Read more

Carve Her Name With Pride

By: R. J. Minney

Narrated by: Poppy Manley

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY... Read more

Pilgrim's Wilderness

By: Tom Kizzia

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
 
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new... Read more

Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood

By: Kathleen Sharp

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 18 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wonder why so many B actors wind up as A-grade politicians? Or how the casting couch worked? Acclaimed author Kathleen Sharp traces the influence of show business through the lives of its first power couple. Edie and Lew Wasserman built the world’s largest talent agency, MCA, created the multibillion-dollar Universal Studios, and helped... Read more

JFK's Last Hundred Days

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been

Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key... Read more

Ready for a Brand New Beat

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in the Street." The song was recorded at Motown's Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals. Released on July 31, the song was supposed to... Read more

Kissinger

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 34 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to... Read more

Topsy

By: Michael Daly

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1903 at the soon-to-open Luna Park on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted, likely with advice from Thomas Edison, whose film crew recorded the horrible event. Over the past century, this bizarre, ghoulish execution has reverberated through popular culture with the ring of an urban legend. But it really happened, and today,... Read more

The Secret Lives Codebreakers

By: Sinclair McKay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II

Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School—and the site where Germany’s legendary Enigma code was finally cracked.... Read more