History audiobooks

America's Women - Abridged

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-centuryIn this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over... Read more

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... Read more

Krakatoa

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword... Read more

The Meaning of Everything

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. 
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--""so vast,... Read more

The Map That Changed the World

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery... Read more

Professor and The Madman - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book  The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the... Read more

Ted Williams

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more

George Washington - Abridged

By: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments,... Read more

Elizabeth and Mary - Abridged

By: Jane Dunn

Narrated by: Isla Blair

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a... Read more

Martin Luther

By: Martin E. Marty

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A superb work of intellectual history, this slim volume by one of today's foremost theologians takes you through the mind and times of Europe's firebrand, Martin Luther. Deeply convinced that man and God could have a spiritual relationship unmediated by the pomp, offices, money and power of the Catholic Church, he strove ceaselessly to gain an... Read more

Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 6

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - La pierre précieuse2 - La bonté victorieuse3 - La bénédiction du tailleur4 - Le jour où un homme vola Read more

The 9/11 Commission Report

By: Multiple Authors

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of 20 months, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, five Democrats and five Republicans held 12 public hearings and received testimony from 160 witnesses. Dozens of government agencies and other entities provided the Commission with more than 2.5 million pages of documents and other material. The report and its recommendations can save... Read more

Scurvy

By: Stephen Bown

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored. In this intriguing book, Stephen R. Brown delivers a lively recounting of how three... Read more

A Thousand Shall Fall

By: Susi Hasel Mundy

Narrated by: Lauren Mazzio & Nicholas Mazzio

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Electrifying True Testimony of Franz Hasel Dramatically narrated with original cinematic score.Pacifist Franz Hasel was drafted into one of Hitler’s elite troops to build bridges at the front lines. Just before he was sent deep into Russia – where all but seven of his 1,200 man unit would die – he secretly discarded his gun, fearing that, as... Read more

Democracy Matters

By: Cornel West

Narrated by: Cornel West

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“

"A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe

In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to... Read more

Name of the Enemy

By: Quintan Wiktorowicz

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past several decades, Islamic terrorists have transformed themselves into a sophisticated global network of self-proclaimed holy warriors. These fighters no longer confine themselves to local battles against incumbent Muslim regimes in a bid to establish theocratic states. The Jihadi Salafis (a name they would use to describe... Read more

Mornings On Horseback - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.

Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore... Read more

All Brave Sailors - Abridged

By: J. Revell Carr

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells. The victim was a stalwart English tramp steamer, Anglo Saxon, part of the lifeline that was keeping besieged England in supplies. The attacker appeared to be a merchant ship from a neutral... Read more

An End to Evil

By: David Frum & R. Perle

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.

This world is an unsafe place for... Read more

The Darkest Jungle - Abridged

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers... Read more

An End to Evil - Abridged

By: David Frum & Richard Perle

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.

This world is an unsafe place for... Read more

Julius Caesar - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir Ralph Richardson & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."" - AntonyA Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series -- now on digital audiobook. Read more

Crossroads of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a... Read more

Pigs at the Trough - Abridged

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Alison Fraser

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Read more