History audiobooks

Contested Boundaries

By: David J. Jepsen & David J. Norberg

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.

● An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest—Washington, Oregon, and Idaho—from when only Native... Read more

Von George Washington bis John F. Kennedy: 10 kurze Biografien berühmter Politiker

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: George Washington, Königin Elisabeth II, Winston Churchill, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Golda Meir. Read more

Ancient Egypt

By: History Nerds

Narrated by: Andrew McDermott

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Ancient Egypt" journey back in time to one of the most fascinating civilizations in history. This concise yet comprehensive book takes you on a captivating exploration of the land of the pharaohs, offering a clear and insightful overview of ancient Egyptian culture, society, and achievements.
Delve into the mystique of the pyramids, marvel at... Read more

Victor!

By: Dr. Craig von Buseck

Narrated by: Craig von Buseck

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In some ways, everything in our world seems out of control, but turmoil has been a part of the evolution of our nation since its founding. America has endured extremely dark periods in its history—the Revolution, World War II, and perhaps the darkest of all, the Civil War.



But in darkness, leaders emerge to shine a light of hope to guide people.... Read more

The Beloved Vision

By: Stephen Walsh

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When one thinks of "great" classical music, we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition.



The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how has adopted such an insightful narrative approach as... Read more

El antiguo Egipto: Un apasionante recorrido por la historia de Egipto, desde la colonización del valle del Nilo hasta la muerte de Cleopatra VII, pasando por los reinos Antiguo, Medio y Nuevo

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Sabía que los gatos eran extremadamente sagrados en el antiguo Egipto y que quienes mataban a uno podían ser castigados con la muerte?Según muchos egiptólogos, los antiguos egipcios nunca consideraron dioses a los animales. En cambio, los consideraban la personificación de sus poderosas deidades, lo que explica por qué los egipcios... Read more

Subjected to Science

By: Susan E. Lederer

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period "before Tuskegee"—from 1890 to 1940



Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use... Read more

Zen Buddhism and Its Relation to Art

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this entertaining pamphlet, the author, who was an expert on the artistic traditions of China and Japan, examines the effect of Zen Buddhism on popular culture. He provides a perceptive thumbnail view of the development of Buddhism in the Far East, and engaging portraits of its luminary figures. Read more

Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life

By: Joseph Epstein

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.

An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times,... Read more

Can't Be Satisfied

By: Robert Gordon

Narrated by: Keb' Mo'

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix

The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare... Read more

The Empire of Climate

By: David N. Livingstone

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the... Read more

Zarin Katharina die Große: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Zarin Katharina die Große, russische Machtpolitikerin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Everest, Inc.

By: Will Cockrell

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author).

Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent... Read more

How to Start a War

By: Michael Trapani

Narrated by: Michael Trapani

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How To Start a War is unlike any audiobook you’ve ever listened to …This new and expanded edition includes the complete story arc of How To Start a War, unabridged and with significant new material, as the author originally intended.Adapted from the popular podcast miniseries of the same name, Michael Trapani immerses listeners in the dramatic... Read more

Muse of Fire

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire.



With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the bestselling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's... Read more

The Jews of Summer

By: Sandra Fox

Narrated by: Sharon Freedman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism... Read more

Lotus Girl

By: Helen Tworkov

Narrated by: Helen Tworkov

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against... Read more

Three Summers

By: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess & Laura L. Sullivan

Narrated by: Selma Ducanovic & Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide.

Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family’s little island in... Read more

The Museum of Other People

By: Adam Kuper

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums

“A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution . . . the argument [Kuper] makes in The Museum of Other People... Read more

The Rise of Sport

By: Frederic L. Paxson

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsTHE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917. FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a... Read more

American Indians and the American Dream

By: Kasey R. Keeler

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today's suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem to move and house differing groups of... Read more

In the Shadow of Liberty

By: Ana Raquel Minian

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, David Shih, Marie-Françoise Th...

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Meticulous . . . Storytelling allows Minian to convey the physical and emotional toll of detention with potent specificity. The result is a book-length plea against dehumanization, at least for those who are willing to listen.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant... Read more

From Beirut to Jerusalem

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 25 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.

"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." —Seymour M. Hersh

One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world.... Read more

L'ultimo giorno di Roma

By: Alberto Angela

Narrated by: Giuliano Bonetto & Alberto Angela

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

L'ULTIMO GIORNO DI ROMA: il primo libro della "Trilogia di Nerone" dedicata al più controverso imperatore di Roma e all'incendio del 64 d.C. Roma, sabato 18 luglio 64 d.C. È una calda notte estiva, la città sta per svegliarsi con le sue strade brulicanti di attività e di persone, ed è del tutto ignara di quello che accadrà tra poche... Read more