History audiobooks

Ghost Ship

By: Brian Hicks

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for... Read more

Mortimer and the Witches

By: Marie Carter

Narrated by: Marie Carter

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City's tenements and slums. When his articles were published in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that scandalized and delighted the public. In Mortimer and the Witches, author... Read more

Rediscovering Turtle Island

By: Taylor Keen

Narrated by: Taylor Keen

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

• Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America

• Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time

• Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas... Read more

Mosquito Warrior

By: Carol R. Byerly

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (1854–1920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and public health. His fascinating life illuminates vast transformations in the United States.



Gorgas came of age amidst war and disease and the politics of racial segregation. He followed his father into... Read more

Visions of Inequality

By: Branko Milanovic

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures.



Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw... Read more

Wu

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court power-game, she caused the deaths of two lady rivals, before securing her enthronement as the... Read more

Sunshine State Mafia

By: Doug Kelly

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, wild ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book tells stories of organized crime rings that have settled in Florida and made the state their base of operations for bootlegging, gambling, extortion, money laundering, and drug running.



Featuring Al Capone and crime rings in Miami and South Florida, the Trafficante family in Tampa,... Read more

Scripting Empire

By: James Procter

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals... Read more

Hijacked

By: Elizabeth Anderson

Narrated by: Carolyn Jania

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve.... Read more

Bernhard Sindberg

By: Peter Harmsen

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are killed. At the very onset of the atrocities, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp... Read more

Mission Iran

By: James Stejskal

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States.



Detachment A had been established in Berlin early in the Cold War to harass and delay any Soviet military advance west. This Special... Read more

Impossible Monsters

By: Michael Taylor

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.



When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the... Read more

In Strange Company

By: Col. Roland J. Tiso Jr. (Ret) US Army

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 21 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire... Read more

The Shortest History of Japan

By: Lesley Downer

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.



Even at the nearest point, Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around... Read more

AFOQT Examination

By: Roland Whitaker

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

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This audiobook serves as your definitive companion for... Read more

Life and Death at Abbey Gate

By: Mikael Cook

Narrated by: Mikael Cook

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As the American government began a disastrous mass evacuation of its Afghan allies, a group of American veterans saw the writing on the wall—the people who had supported them on the ground over the past two decades were going to be left behind. Instead of watching on the sideline, they sprang into action. The effort became known nationally as... Read more

Fighting From Above

By: Brian D. Laslie

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over... Read more

Food to Die For

By: Amy Bruni

Narrated by: Amy Bruni

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns,... Read more

Mr. Churchill in the White House

By: Robert Schmuhl

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. Drawing on years of... Read more

Florida's Space Coast

By: William B. Faherty

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Florida's Space Coast tells the compelling story of America's half century in space exploration from the successful launch of the first two-stage rocket in 1950 through the space shuttle missions of 2000. Told from the unique viewpoint of the people who built the Spaceport, this book shows how the space program transformed the east central... Read more

Tracing Florida Journeys

By: Leslie Kemp Poole

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

How has Florida's land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective... Read more

In the Company of Radical Women Writers

By: Rosemary Hennessy

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy... Read more

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

Narrated by: Christopher Dukes, Blaise Doran, Dara Brown, La...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of the earliest and most compelling presentations of the story of a man who sold his soul to the Devil. It is based on the popular history of Johann Georg Faust (1466–1541) a German chemist and magician, who allegedly perished in an explosion during an alchemical experiment. In the theologically... Read more

Chain of Fools

By: Trav S.D.

Narrated by: Trav S.D.

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Chain of Fools traces the art of slapstick comedy from its pre-cinema origins in the ancient pantomime through its silent movie heyday in the teens and twenties, then on to talkies, television, and the internet. Author Trav S.D. mixes a wicked wit, a scholar’s curiosity, and a keen critical appreciation for laugh-makers through the ages, from... Read more