History audiobooks

The Hidden Shore

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

1843: the early years of Queen Victoria's reign witness much high-level debate at the Palace of Westminster, but nothing can interfere with Society's enjoyment of the Season.

When Charlotte Meldon's father dies, she believes herself to be destitute, but a lawyer's letter reveals that she is not only part of the great Morland family, but wealthy... Read more

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

By: Stephen Grady & Michael Wright

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin & Luke Thompson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.
A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...

September 1939, Nieppe,... Read more

El canto de las sirenas

By: María Angélica Salmerón Jiménez

Narrated by: Ana Ragasol

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Las matemáticas, la alquimia, la medicina, la química, la astronomía, la informática y la teoría de la evolución no serían lo mismo sin un puñado de mujeres de diversas épocas y lugares, precursoras en tales campos científicos. Ellas son estudiadas para recuperar su memoria y divulgar su labor. La ciencia hecha por mujeres a lo largo de varios... Read more

Desperate Sons

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and grace.”
—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding BrothersLes Standiford’s Last Train to Paradise, the fascinating true account of... Read more

Coolidge

By: Amity Shlaes

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so... Read more

Our Occulted History

By: Jim Marrs

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Jim Marrs steps once again to the cutting-edge of research into conspiracies and hidden truths. In Our Occulted History, Marrs  goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda and illustrates how human civilization may have originated with non-humans who visited earth eons ago...and may still be here todayOur Occulted... Read more

Round About the Earth

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to
circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,
flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The
story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few
survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five... Read more

Undaunted

By: Tanya Biank

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military—their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front.Since 9/11, more than 240,000 women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan—more than 140 have died there, and they currently make up 14... Read more

Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America

By: Jim Carnes

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Wrongful intolerance has existed in American society for more than four centuries. Us and Them illuminates the shadowy corners of our national past and traces the country's continuing efforts to measure up to its lofty ideals. Through 14 dramatic narratives, listeners witness epic struggles that shaped our collective identity. These and eight... Read more

Pilgrim Theology

By: Michael Horton

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 20 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Pilgrim Theology is a map for Christians seeking to better understand the core beliefs of their faith. Even though it's the study of God, theology has a reputation for being dry, abstract, and irrelevant for daily living. But theology is a matter of life and death. It affects the way you think, the decisions you make, the way you relate to God... Read more

Ike and Dick

By: Jeffrey Frank

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Nixon was a young Navy officer when he first saw Dwight D.
Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the end
of the war in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's running
mate on the Republican presidential ticket—the beginning of a political
and personal relationship that lasted for nearly twenty years.... Read more

Thaddeus Stevens

By: Hans L. Trefousse

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive "dictator of Congress," out to punish the South at the behest of big business and... Read more

English Eccentrics

By: John Timbs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing in the 19th century, John Timbs recounts the tales of some of the most idiosyncratic eccentrics of his own day and the preceding centuries. This audiobook begins with the story of the Beckford dynasty who lavish built the monstrous Fonthill Abbey, which owing to their unconventional approach tended to fall down as quickly as it could be... Read more

The Hour of Peril

By: Daniel Stashower

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben

Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.

In February of 1861, just days before he... Read more

NPR American Chronicles: The Vietnam War

By: NPR

Narrated by: Audie Cornish

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR reports on the Vietnam War, from its origins to the major battles, through the Fall of Saigon, to repercussions of the conflict still felt today. Read more

Congressman Lincoln

By: Chris DeRose

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of an Abraham Lincoln many Americans aren't at all
familiar with: Lincoln as a reluctant husband in an abusive
relationship; Lincoln who came within moments of fighting a duel with a
political adversary; the first and only president to patent an
invention; and the first future president to argue before the Supreme Court.

Though... Read more

Radiation

By: Robert Peter Gale & Eric Lax

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to radiation: the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity.

Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet; without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Robert Peter Gale,... Read more

The Wise Men

By: Walter Isaacson & E. Thomas

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates... Read more

Rome's Last Citizen

By: Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with... Read more

Alone on the Ice

By: David Roberts & Jenny Piening

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a... Read more

Madam Secretary

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 24 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of... Read more

Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles

By: Tanya Lee Stone

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men were segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to... Read more

The Inventor and the Tycoon

By: Edward Ball

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
 
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more

12 Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years... Read more