History audiobooks

Slaveroad

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: David Sadzin

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.

John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great... Read more

Vigilante Nation

By: Jon Michaels & David Noll

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy—and prescribe a plan for beating the Christian nationalists at their own game.

Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white... Read more

Countdown 1960

By: Chris Wallace

Narrated by: Dylan Baker & Chris Wallace

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024

It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the... Read more

The Unexpected Abigail Adams

By: John L. Smith, Jr.

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated," writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters... Read more

Secret Agenda

By: Jim Hougan

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one... Read more

Japanese Folktales and Legends: An Enthralling Collection of Stories, Mythical Creatures, Heroes, and Timeless Tales

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the Heart of Japan Through Its Legendary StoriesStep into the world of Japanese folklore, where a samurai’s sword is more than just a weapon—it’s a symbol of honor, courage, and the samurai way of life. This audiobook takes you on a journey through the stories that have shaped Japanese culture for centuries.Discover the enduring power of... Read more

The Girl With Three Birthdays

By: Patti Eddington

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn't. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that... Read more

Japan's Holocaust

By: Bryan Mark Rigg, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan... Read more

A Life in the American Century

By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"—a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power—be it political, economic, or military—on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world... Read more

Operation Biting

By: Max Hastings

Narrated by: Max Hastings & John Hopkins

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the most successful.In February 1942, RAF... Read more

El Ataque a Pearl Harbor El Día De La Infamia

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

El 7 de diciembre de 1941, un ataque sorpresa de las fuerzas japonesas sobre la base naval de Pearl Harbor cambió el rumbo de la historia. Este trágico suceso llevó a los Estados Unidos a entrar en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un conflicto que ya asolaba gran parte del mundo. En este libro, se examina minuciosamente lo ocurrido antes, durante y... Read more

Alarms & Discursions

By: GK Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the... Read more

Haunted States

By: Miranda Corcoran

Narrated by: Kimberly Conwell

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide – continue to haunt the national consciousness.

Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the dark, often horrifying, history of the US. Based on the author’s journey... Read more

Madrid, metrópolis (neo)fascista

By: Pablo del Hierro

Narrated by: Simon Gómez & Santiago Gómez

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La capital de España como una urbe fundamental en el proceso de reconfiguración del viejo movimiento totalitario. De la mano de Pablo del Hierro redescubrimos un Madrid que actuó como centro de negocios oscuros a menudo vinculados al mundo del arte, como refugio seguro para jerarcas fascistas donde la naciente justicia internacional no se... Read more

Castro Alves - Crianças Famosas - Abridged

By: Myriam Fraga

Narrated by: Kely Rodrigues

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, o Poeta dos Escravos, nasceu em 1847, no interior da Bahia. Graças à amizade que tivera com o filho de uma escrava, ele empenhou-se na luta pelos direitos dos negros no Brasil. Este livro narra a infância de Castro Alves, poeta brasileiro do período do Romantismo, que ficou famoso por suas palavras de exaltação... Read more

Chopin

By: Anne-Marie Deraspe

Narrated by: Michel Keable

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Tu te demandes sans doute pourquoi je viens te parler de la musique de Frédéric Chopin né en 1810. Crois-le ou non, c’est qu’il est toujours en vogue, et non seulement dans les salles de concert. Figure-toi qu’on retrouve sa musique dans des jeux vidéo que tu connais sans doute. Read more

The Great American Socialist: Eugene Debs, 1890-1919

By: Eugene Debs

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Six months ago, I had never heard the name Eugene Debs. Today, I believe he is one of the greatest orators in history, ranking alongside Napoleon, Robespierre, Lincoln, and Cicero. More importantly, he was a genuine hero, a man to believe in and follow into the fires of hell. His legacy has been unrightly ignored by the same powers that... Read more

The Rise of Socialism

By: William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein,...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.
William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall... Read more

Demosthenes

By: Demosthenes

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Demosthenes is generally acknowledged as the greatest orator in history. He overcame a stammer and the theft of his inheritance by his legal guardians to become as foundational to oratory as his contemporaries Plato and Aristotle are to philosophy.
Much like a major contemporary political figure, he overcame a stammer on his journey to greatness,... Read more

The Reformation

By: Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, Hulyrich Zw...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, of a type where people have no idea about them other than knowing their importance in Christian thought and culture. It is surprising, therefore, how closely their language and concerns reflect modern times. Martin Luther was a rabble-rousing man of the people, filled with invective and the... Read more

From Enlightenment To Revolution

By: Maximillian Robespierre, Edmund Burke & William...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine... Read more

The Era of Liberation

By: Louis Kossuth, Abraham Lincoln, Swami Vivekanan...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality.
We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he... Read more

Civil War in the Roman Republic

By: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Mark Anthony, Caius M...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how easily they could be translated into a modern day context. Frequently, a speech has reminded me of the news of the day, somewhere in the world. Nowhere has this been more evident than in these speeches. Given over two thousand years ago, every single one could be applied... Read more

The Birth of Anarchism

By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Louis ...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than just choosing how to meet the needs and demands of capital. Inequality is structural and intentional, not inevitable and necessary.
It does not have to be this way. In solidarity, we are better.
Think for yourself, and question authority.
This is the essence... Read more