History audiobooks

Room Full of Mirrors

By: Charles R. Cross

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women’s hearts, and the status quo. In this groundbreaking account, music journalist Charles R. Cross takes a far deeper look. Beyond Hendrix’s legendary onstage and offstage magnetism and his excessive lifestyle was a man who struggled to... Read more

Inhuman Bondage

By: David Brion Davis

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding... Read more

Martin Luther, the Lion-Hearted Reformer

By: J. A. Morrison

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of history written subsequently to his day."—from the... Read more

The Story of Liberty

By: Charles C. Coffin

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Does America still have a rendezvous with destiny? Is there yet a generation to come forth from this nation which will turn the hearts of not only its countrymen back to the living God, but the heart of the world as well?Charles C. Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, reaches back into the records of history to observe... Read more

The Story of the Renaissance

By: William Henry Hudson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for bringing about the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world."Voyages of discovery, inventions, the revival of classical learning, and the advent of science contribute to the intellectual upheavals of this... Read more

God and Mr. Gomez

By: Jack Smith

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives “that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States.” Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez.As their... Read more

Sufferings in Africa

By: Captain James Riley

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.This dramatic account of Captain... Read more

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the... Read more

We Look like Men of War

By: William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more

Landscape Turned Red

By: Stephen W. Sears

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history. On this single day, the battle claimed nearly twenty-three thousand casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate... Read more

Ser niño "huacho" en la historia de Chile (siglo XIX) (Completo)

By: Gabriel Salazar Vergara

Narrated by: Natalia Valdebenito & Marcelo Pintos

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Los textos que se reúnen en este libro dan cuenta de un continuo en escenarios distintos: niños pobres, huachos, los hijos de Rosaria hacia 1845, los hijos de Gregorio Ruiz hacia 1912, juan Machuca, de 14 años, hacia el 2000; todos ellos de laguna manera toman aquí la palabra para hablar de su cotidiano, de la suerte de sus padres, de su trabajo... Read more

One Christmas in Washington

By: David Bercuson & Holger Herwig

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One Christmas in Washington is the fascinating, in-depth look at one of the most crucial periods in modern history: the Washington war conference of 1941, when two proud and accomplished statesmen struggled to overcome biases, suspicion, and hubris to create what turned out to be the war-winning alliance.The authors take a penetrating look at... Read more

Under Drake’s Flag

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By: Anna Harriette Leonowens

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings... Read more

Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's"pens├®es" (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who had resolved the conflict between his scientific mind and his heart-felt faith.The book begins with an analysis of the difference between mathematical... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

You think you know about Islam, but did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states? Or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other “politically incorrect” facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and... Read more

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

By: Jacob Burckhardt

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. Within the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt finds the first stirrings of the modern world—and in the Renaissance Italian, the first modern man. In this landmark study... Read more

Fatal Forecast

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were caught in a horrific surprise storm off of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive ninety-foot waves that battered the boats for hours and... Read more

Miles to Go

By: Chris Murphy

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis’ eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. Murphy explores Davis’ troubled relationship with his children and the controversial role Cicely Tyson played in his life. The book also delves into the dynamics that made Davis’ band work so well... Read more

Marian McPartland’s Jazz World

By: Marian McPartland

Narrated by: Marian McPartland

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays sparkling tribute to such beloved and legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, Mary Lou Williams, and others.In a preface to this new edition, published originally as All in Good Time, McPartland extends her... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, a president.When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that... Read more

Class Action

By: Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one found the courage to file the first sexual harassment class action suit in America, permanently changing the legal landscape.When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn’t... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

Thermopylae

By: Paul Cartledge

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 480 BC, a vast Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks, led by King Leonidas and a small army of Spartans, took the battle to the Persians at Thermopylae and halted their advance—almost. It is one of... Read more