History audiobooks

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Paul Auster & James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's... Read more

The Essential Lewis and Clark Selections

By: Landon Y. Jones

Narrated by: Tom Wopat & Peter Friedman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure—in their own wordsThe journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Here is a concise,... Read more

Sons of Camelot - Abridged

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Laurence Leamer

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes THE SONS OF CAMELOT, the second volume in a multi-generational history bound to be considered an American epic.Almost a year before publication, THE SONS OF CAMELOT: The Fate of an American Dynasty was already being widely discussed and... Read more

Breaking the Da Vinci Code

By: Darrell L. Bock

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Many who have read the New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code have questions that arise from seven codes-expressed or implied-in Dan Brown's book. In Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking, Darrell Bock, Ph.D., responds to the novelist's claims using central ancient texts and answers the following... Read more

Bobby Fischer Goes to War - Abridged

By: David Edmonds & John Eidinow

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men -- the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer -- met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two... Read more

Red, White & Liberal - Abridged

By: Alan Colmes

Narrated by: Alan Colmes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Red, White & Liberal, Alan Colmes addresses a fundamental question: In this time of uncertainty, how can we protect our freedom without diminishing our liberties, while burnishing our rightful place as the world's beacon of democracy? Colmes urges Americans to see past the tactics of the vocal right and to combat the problems that... Read more

Shadow Divers

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat–complete with its crew of 60 men–not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught... Read more

1968

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of one pivotal year, events that shaped American and world history took place: The North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive. Prague Spring began. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Students protested across the United States and around the world. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic National Convention in... Read more

In The Company of Soldiers - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Rick Atkinson

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat.
Granted... Read more

The People Speak

By: Howard Zinn

Narrated by: James Earl Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice... Read more

A People's History of the United States - Abridged

By: Howard Zinn

Narrated by: Matt Damon

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLERRead by Matt Damon and Howard Zinn""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American... Read more

Nancy

By: Michael Deaver

Narrated by: Michael Deaver

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever publishedNancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily private one. Now Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know.The woman... Read more

Lone Star Nation - Abridged

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history—the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America.

“For better or for worse, Texas was very much like America. The people ruled, and little could stop them. If they ignored national... Read more

Grace and Power

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more

Beyond Belief

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy.

Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group of researchers, Pagels returns to her investigation... Read more

A Pretext For War

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
 
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more

Blood Done Sign My Name

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
 
*Chicago Tribune

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more

Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne - Abridged

By: Larry Chambers

Narrated by: Brian Hallas

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win.

They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered... Read more

The Genome War - Abridged

By: James Shreeve

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within... Read more

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - Abridged

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”

With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the... Read more

West Dickens Avenue - Abridged

By: John Corbett

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho... Read more

Murdering Mr. Lincoln

By: Charles Higham

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this startling and original work, best-selling author Charles Higham (Howard Hughes: The Secret Life) addresses one of the greatest historical mysteries: Did John Wilkes Booth act alone on the night of Good Friday, 1865, or was he part of a wide conspiracy? Drawing from letters, diaries, previously unstudied records of official hearings,... Read more

Tour of Duty - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians—the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004—and its profound effects on his career and lifeIn Tour of Duty, Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s career and deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S.... Read more