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A Strange Whim of the Sea
By: Tim Loughman
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 16, 1944, the submarine rescue vessel USS Macaw (ASR-11) ran aground at Midway Atoll while attempting to get a towing line to the stranded submarine USS Flier (SS-250). The Flier was pulled free six days later, but another three weeks of salvage efforts failed to dislodge the Macaw. Then on February 12, the sea accomplished that task,... Read more
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The Kennedy Withdrawal
By: Marc J. Selverstone
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam, earning President Kennedy an enduring reputation as a skeptic on the war. In fact, Kennedy was ambivalent about withdrawal and was largely detached from its planning. Marc J. Selverstone reveals that the withdrawal statement gave Kennedy political cover,... Read more
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Victory Is Assured
By: Stanley Crouch
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.
With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist,... Read more
After Nuremberg
By: Robert Hutchinson
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
After Nuremberg is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals convicted at the twelve Nuremberg trials of 1946–1949. Because of repeated American grants of clemency and parole, ninety-seven of the 142 Germans convicted at the Nuremberg trials, many of them major offenders, regained their freedom years, sometimes... Read more
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Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
By: Sonya Y. Ramsey
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the nineteenth-century term "race woman" to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into... Read more
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Free Market
By: Jacob Soll
Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out... Read more
A Short History of the World
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Edward James Beesley
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Don’t have time to read a whole history textbook or a set of encyclopedias? Check out H.G. Wells’ A Short History of the World for a bite-sized portion of human history. From the origin of our planet, to the great civilizations, to the Great War, follow Wells on this ambitious journey spanning thousands of years. Although H.G. Wells is known as... Read more
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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
By: Simon Young
Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or... Read more
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Switching Fields
By: George Dohrmann
Narrated by: Brian Telestai
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men’s soccer players for so long—and shows why a golden era just might be coming.
“George Dohrmann is one of our most perceptive chroniclers of youth sports in the United States, and here he brings his keen eye to the history and present of U.S.... Read more
In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
By: Gershon Baskin
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They... Read more
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Hot, Hot Chicken
By: Rachel Louise Martin
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
These days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for... Read more
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson
By: Daisy Hay
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 19 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides a fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a... Read more
Clearing the Plains
By: James Daschuk
Narrated by: J.D. Nicholsen
Length: 21 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and,... Read more
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"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
By: Torie Bosch
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson & Emily Schwing
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook, Mack Sanderson and Emily Schwing reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that,... Read more
The Preventorium - Abridged
By: Susan Annah Currie
Narrated by: Vanessa Webb
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of... Read more
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Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers - Abridged
By: Emma Christopher Lirette
Narrated by: Linda Rigamer Lirette
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced... Read more
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Reading Confederate Monuments - Abridged
By: Maria Seger
Narrated by: Mason Jackson
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public... Read more
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Retaking Kokoda
By: David W. Cameron
Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back across the mountains to the Japanese... Read more
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Los días de la Revolución
By: Eduardo Sacheri
Narrated by: Eduardo Sacheri
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Una historia de Argentina... cuando no era Argentina. El primer audiolibro de historia de Eduardo Sacheri.
Querido lector: Te preguntarás por qué me pongo a escribir un libro de Historia cuando todos los míos anteriores son ficciones, es decir, historias inventadas. Y es que antes de empezar a escribir ficción estudié Historia. Obtuve mis... Read more
El Imperio babilónico: Una apasionante visión de Babilonia y los babilonios
By: Enthralling History
Narrated by: Carlos Verne
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Jardines colgantes, arquitectura asombrosa, un prototipo de código legal, mitos macabros, altísimos zigurats, un texto médico de cuatro mil años de antigüedad, predicciones de eclipses lunares y solares, ecuaciones cuadráticas y trigonometría: ¡los antiguos babilonios lo hicieron todo!Los babilonios fueron indiscutiblemente una fuerza formidable... Read more
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Maat, la Déesse de la Justice de l'Ancienne Egypte
By: Anna Mancini
Narrated by: Anna Mancini
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Depuis que l'Egyptologie existe, les spécialistes n'ont cessé d'accumuler des textes parlant de Maat, déesse égyptienne de la justice. Pourtant Maat est demeurée un mystère pour les Egyptologues du monde entier. Jusqu'à ce jour, ils avouent ne pas savoir exactement ce qu'est la Maat. Ce qu'ils déplorent, car il s'agit là d'un concept-clef de la... Read more
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Albert Speer. Architekt diabła
By: Luigi Romolo Carrino
Narrated by: Olga Żmuda
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Kim jest geniusz architektury III Rzeszy?Dlaczego stał sie bliski Hitlerowi?Albert Speer był architektem Hitlera. Zbrodniarz odpowiedzialny za deportacje i wykorzystywanie europejskiej ludności cywilnej. Mianowany przez Hitlera w lutym 1942 r. ministrem uzbrojenia. Wykorzystywał jeńców w przemyśle wojennym. Przesłuchiwany w Norymberdze 19... Read more
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Greek Mythology
By: Adam Andino
Narrated by: Tim Tidball
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
GREEK MYTHOLOGYImagine living in ancient times and having to make sense of the world. It would seem like everything is out to kill you and you’d have no clue why. The solution, of course, would be to tell a story about it. This was what ancient Greeks did; in a way that was so beautiful and intricate, it still captures our minds today. What is... Read more
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Finding Clara
By: Jeri Fuller
Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
The one thing I knew for sure was, the more family history I found, the more I knew there was more to find!
The question was asked if our ancestors came from England on the Mayflower. I answered no, “Our English ancestors sailed into Cambridge Harbor, Massachusetts in 1638, instead!”
Finding Clara is a result of a single genealogical lead, that... Read more