History audiobooks

Armageddon

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.

You’ll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery,... Read more

You Don't Belong Here

By: Elizabeth Becker

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war
 
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared... Read more

Into the Raging Sea

By: Rachel Slade

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.”
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookOn October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole,... Read more

Our First Civil War

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington Post

From best-selling historian and... Read more

Means and Ends

By: Zoe Baker

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.



Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their... Read more

Changes in the Land

By: William Cronon

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos,... Read more

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.

President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in... Read more

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

By: Richard Miles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and... Read more

Before the Movement

By: Dylan C. Penningroth

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided... Read more

The White Ship

By: Charles Spencer

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON ’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ PICKED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY MAIL... Read more

Eighteen

By: Alice Loxton

Narrated by: Alice Loxton

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Alice Loxton.

Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian

'Loxton is the next big thing in history' – Dan Snow

At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague.

From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a... Read more

Becoming Trader Joe

By: Joe Coulombe

Narrated by: Mark Smeby

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love--and a work environment that your employees love being a part of--using this blueprint from Trader Joe’s visionary founder, Joe Coulombe.Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot.Joe Coulombe... Read more

The Metaphysical Club

By: Louis Menand

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of... Read more

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

By: Jeanne Theoharis

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of... Read more

Ten Myths About Israel

By: Ilan Pappe

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman)



The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.



The "ten myths"—repeated... Read more

Silencing the Past

By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Narrated by: Shaun Scott

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Read more

Birchers

By: Matthew Dallek

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
 
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity,... Read more

The Devils of Loudun

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for... Read more

A Brief History of Everything

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Steve Grad & Willow Pearson

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber."

Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding... Read more

She-Wolves

By: Paulina Bren

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

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The propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.



First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas,... Read more

Requiem for the American Dream

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad—much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better …"—from Requiem for the American DreamIn his first major book on the subject of income... Read more

From Conquest to Colony

By: Kirsten Schultz

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance



Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the... Read more

Tunnel 29

By: Helena Merriman

Narrated by: Helena Merriman

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. 
 
In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape.

From the award-winning creator of... Read more

Losing Earth

By: Nathaniel Rich

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is an important, infuriating, enlightening, engaging, and engrossing audiobook...Anyone wishing to learn how the world has gotten to the point of almost inevitable climate disaster will be well served by listening to Godfrey's measured but emphatic reading." — AudioFile Magazine

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today... Read more