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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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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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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
Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America
By: Richard Aquila
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s.
In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American Century." Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For "one brief, shining moment" in the early 1960s, both... Read more
Mussolini's Daughter
By: Caroline Moorehead
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe—and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet, Caroline Moorehead “Reads like a page-turning... Read more
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The Oswalds
By: Paul R. Gregory
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple’s arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK’s assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in our country’s history.Merely two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,... Read more
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Three in One
By: William Spencer
Narrated by: Jim Denison
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout history, Christians have pictured the relationships between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through analogies. Such illustrations—some from the West but also from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and other places—come laden with theological ramifications that the church has rejected (heresies) or embraced (doctrines). In Three in One,... Read more
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Royal Romances
By: Leslie Carroll
Narrated by: Leslie Carroll
Length: 22 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
More breathtaking than any fairy tale, here are seven scandalous, seductive centuries of all-for-love royal desire …Elegant palaces, dazzling power plays, shimmering jewels, and the grandest of all-or-nothing gambles—nothing can top real-life love among the royalty. Louis XIV defied God and law, permitting his married mistress Madame de... Read more
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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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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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Crassus
By: Peter Stothard
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might... Read more
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
We Are Not One People
By: R. Jarrod Atchison & Michael J. Lee
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths... Read more
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Silent Spring Revolution
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 29 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of... 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
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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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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Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy
By: Stephen F. Knott
Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy offers a nuanced assessment of the thirty-fifth president, whose legacy and impact people continue to debate to this day. Stephen F. Knott examines Kennedy through the lens of five critical issues: his interpretation of presidential power, his approach to civil rights, and his foreign policy toward Cuba, the... Read more
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Mystery in Manhattan
By: Kelly Oliver
Narrated by: Willow Nash
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
"The perfect wartime spy; Fiona Figg is smart, sneaky, and full of surprises… A fun whodunit that will keep you turning the pages!” Cathi Stoler, author of The Murder On The Rocks Mysteries.
'A fun, mix of whodunnit and thriller set amid American high society' T. A. Williams
'Fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek spy romp. Enjoy the ride' Frances EveshamCan... Read more
The Queen
By: Andrew Morton
Narrated by: Andrew Morton & Judy Bennett
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of The Crown, legendary New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive story of Queen Elizabeth II's life and legacy.
Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor’s personality was well suited to her youthful ambition of living quietly in the country, raising a family, and caring for her dogs and horses. But... Read more
Rescued from the Ashes
By: Leokadia Schmidt
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed.
Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small... Read more
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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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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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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