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The Failed Promise
By: Robert S. Levine
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.
When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly... Read more
Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941
By: Peter Harmsen
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic... Read more
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Sports and American History
By: Matthew Andrews
Narrated by: Matthew Andrews
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Join celebrated UNC history professor Matthew Andrews to discover how sports have reflected various facets of American identity—both laudatory and troubling—throughout our nation’s history.
Whether you love sports or find the American sports obsession confounding, this course will help you answer the fascinating question of why sports have... Read more
The Way Out
By: Peter T. Coleman
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more... Read more
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Subtle Tools
By: Karen J. Greenberg
Narrated by: Kim Niemi
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. One of today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these "subtle tools" imperiled... Read more
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12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy
By: Richard Hone & Tim Saunders
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Raised in 1943 with seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and "Tunisgrad", the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler's bodyguard division, the elite... Read more
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The Secret Body
By: Daniel M. Davis
Narrated by: Jot Davies
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.”—Bill Bryson
This audiobook narrated by Jot Davies offers revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our lives
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer, or having a personalized understanding of... Read more
Twilight of the Belle Epoque
By: Mary McAuliffe
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso,... Read more
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Where Beauty Survived
By: George Elliott Clarke
Narrated by: George Elliott Clarke
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished... Read more
Hero of Two Worlds
By: Mike Duncan
Narrated by: Mike Duncan
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality
Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age... Read more
The Escape of Jack the Ripper
By: Jonathan Hainsworth & Christine Ward-Agius
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A MYSTERY SOLVED
In 1888, five gruesome murders shocked the civilized public. A bloodthirsty killer was on the loose in the slums of London. The world was on the lookout for Jack the Ripper.
Scotland Yard never found their man—or so they said publicly. The police knew the killer's identity but concealed it to save the ruling class from... Read more
A Spy in Plain Sight
By: Lis Wiehl
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl delivers a behind-the-scenes account of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a church-going father of five, sold national security secrets to Russia for more than two decades--and how America's current political climate makes it still possible today. Three years into his career... Read more
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States
Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly... Read more
Still Alive
By: Ruth Kluger
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence... Read more
Alpha
By: David Philipps
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An “infuriating, fast-paced” (The Washington Post) account of the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon, the startling accusations against their chief, Eddie Gallagher, and the courtroom battle that exposed the dark underbelly of America’s special forces—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD • “Nearly impossible to put... Read more
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean
By: Barry Cunliffe
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 18 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD.
An... Read more
Traveling Black
By: Mia Bay
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to... Read more
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Defeat Into Victory
By: Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 23 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India... Read more
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The Florentines
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a... Read more
The Master
By: Christopher Clarey
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis player of the modern era.
There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak... Read more
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
By: Ray Acheson
Narrated by: Roxanne Black
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
With so much at stake, from climate change and reproductive rights to threats from weapons of mass destruction and police brutality, the last decade has seen ordinary people take to the streets to challenge and change the way our governments and institutions legislate our future. Movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have had an incredible... Read more
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Public Citizens
By: Paul Sabin
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Drawing energy from civil rights protests and opposition to the Vietnam War, the new citizens' movement drew legions of followers and scored major victories. Citizen advocates... Read more
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Emile or On Education
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
Length: 22 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality may be the two principal philosophical works for which Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is remembered today, but his educational treatise-novel, Emile or On Education, can claim to be an equally important and, for its time, radical work.
Published in 1762, it had a profound impact on the approach... Read more
Leading on the Edge
By: Rachael Robertson
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
What can an Antarctic expedition teach you about leadership? More than you might think! If you think your job is tough, try leading a one-year expedition where you’re on duty all day, every day. Where it’s cold, windy, dark and desolate. And you’re stuck inside with 17 strangers. Rachael Robertson was one of the youngest people to ever lead an... Read more
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