History audiobooks

Spain’s Explorers in the Age of Discovery

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the... Read more

The Modern Discovery of Australia and New Zealand: The History of the Indigenous Natives and the Initial European Expeditions and Settlements

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea... Read more

Mourning the Presidents

By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky & Matthew R. Costello

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances—sudden or expected, still in office or decades later—is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered United States... Read more

The Knockout

By: Andy Clarke

Narrated by: Andy Clarke

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Swift, brutal, and utterly final: with knockouts, there are no grey areas; a KO is a KO. But what actually is a knockout, and why are we so fascinated by it?

The Knockout is the most dramatic and devastating moment in sport. There is nothing to rival it: Not the last second goal, not the basket on the buzzer, not the putt that drops on the... Read more

MacArthur Reconsidered

By: James Ellman

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure:... Read more

Lessons in Liberty

By: Jeremy S. Adams

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smart, patriotic, and readable, this book is what our cynical culture needs.” — Pete Hegseth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Battle for the American MindAmerica is full of inspiring heroes.Greatness is not a chance—it is a choice. George Washington didn’t simply wake up as one of the greatest men in human history. His greatness was the... Read more

Admiral Horatio Nelson’s Greatest Victories

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but none of her military heroes has had a greater military legacy than Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté. Whether traveling to Trafalgar Square or one of the hundreds of pubs named after him, seemingly it becomes easy to... Read more

Light-Horse Harry

By: Noel B. Gerson

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Lee learnt to ride before he was five, joined Washington's Army at nineteen, and was appointed Captain of the Fifth Troop of Virginia Dragoons at twenty. At twenty-two, Colonel Lee took command of a mixed cavalry and infantry unit known as "Lee's Legion"—the finest offensive team in the Continental Army. Nicknamed "Light-Horse Harry" for... Read more

Banished from Johnstown

By: Cody McDevitt

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and journalist Cody McDevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.



In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor of Johnstown ordered every African American and Mexican immigrant who had lived in the city for less than seven years to leave. They were given... Read more

King Hancock

By: Brooke Barbier

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to... Read more

Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Irene Machado, Ramsé...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

En abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos que asisten al movimiento de liberación africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro años después del asesinato del presidente socialista democráticamente electo, Patrice Lumumba.
Porque el diario trata el admitido "fracaso" del Che, examina... Read more

Boss

By: Mike Royko

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.



Mike Royko's scathing and meticulously researched account follows Richard J. Daley's rise to power, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago's... Read more

The Tory’s Wife

By: Cynthia A. Kierner

Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king... Read more

What Are the Olympics For?

By: Jules Boykoff

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes... Read more

Signs of Survival

By: Renee Hartman & Joshua M. Greene

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf.



I was my family's ears.



Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable—together. This is their true story.



As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee,... Read more

Jesus, Contradicted

By: Michael R. Licona

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude that the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory and, therefore, historically unreliable accounts... Read more

The Book-Makers

By: Adam Smyth

Narrated by: Adam Smyth

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them

Books tell all kinds of stories—romances, tragedies, comedies—but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture’s most important object, the... Read more

Obama Era Hopes And Disappointments

By: Dr. Ahmed Zaki

Narrated by: Pandarosh

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets of American policies during the era of Obama and secret alliances with the regimes of Arab and Islamic countries The battles with organizations inside the Middle East and the threat from Russia Read more

Zev's Los Angeles

By: Zev Yaroslavsky

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist's... Read more

The Playbook

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro

From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in... Read more

Franz Beckenbauer: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Franz Beckenbauer, Kaiser Franz und deutsche Fußballlegende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

The Mandate for Mesopotamia and Mandate for Palestine: The History of the Former Ottoman Territories Administered by the British after World War I

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson’s pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. While it would attempt to resolve some territorial disputes, it simply proved too weak to prevent... Read more

The Queens Who Fought Rome

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history’s most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.),... Read more

Nordische Mythologie: Ein fesselnder Überblick über nordische Mythen, Götter und Göttinnen

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Marko Kraft

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Wussten Sie, dass Loki der Vater der ungeheuren Kreaturen ist, von denen prophezeit wird, dass sie die Götter von Asgard töten werden?Als Heimdall in sein Horn bläst, um den Beginn von Ragnarök anzukündigen, bleibt den Göttern Asgards keine andere Wahl, als sich den Mächten des Chaos auf dem Schlachtfeld Vigrid zu stellen. Dies ist der Tag, an... Read more