History audiobooks

Restoring the Kinship Worldview

By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) & Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Narrated by: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez, Ph...

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future.

Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe... Read more

As You Wish

By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner...

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as... Read more

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By: Bettany Hughes

Narrated by: Bettany Hughes

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history

“This fascinating book is brimming with stories of people and places, all told with Bettany’s natural sense of wonder and adventure.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The World

For... Read more

Africa Is Not a Country

By: Dipo Faloyin

Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.



Starting with an... Read more

River Kings

By: Cat Jarman

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed bioarcheologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she... Read more

Graveyard of the Pacific

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Lynch Travis

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it. Since then, the commercial importance of... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

The Story of China

By: Michael Wood

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.



After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned... Read more

The Chancellor

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Alex Allwine & Kati Marton

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.

Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a... Read more

The Trouble with White Women

By: Kyla Schuller

Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist... Read more

Fifth Sun

By: Camilla Townsend

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story—and the story of what happened afterwards—has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the... Read more

The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the leading - and the most widely admired - anarchist Communist in the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. He lived long enough to see the establishment of Communism in Russia under Lenin, who acknowledged Kropotkin's commitment to political change. However, Kropotkin... Read more

Courage Is Calling

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
 
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more

Fields, Factories, and Workshops

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of the most interesting figures to emerge from the Russian Communist movement, developing the path of Communist Anarchism: he was not associated, either in theory or practice with the violence associated with that time of great change. Born into a Russian aristocratic land-owning family, he was affected by the... Read more

Blackshirts and Reds

By: Michael Parenti

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's... Read more

Reagan

By: Max Boot

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 32 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot... Read more

The Black Utopians

By: Aaron Robertson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by by four-time Audie Award winner, Odyssey Award winner, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award–winning audiobook narrator, Dion Graham.

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024

A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and sought to transform their lives.

How do the disillusioned, the... Read more

Jerusalem

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 25 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of... Read more

Golden Gulag

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for... Read more

The Dead of Winter

By: Sarah Clegg

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis & Sarah Clegg

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the monsters, witches, and other ghoulish creatures that make up lesser known Christmas folklore in this gleefully creepy guide–perfect for horror fans who love the wintry holidays.

When you think about Christmas, you likely picture mangers, glowing fireplaces, sweet carolers, and snow-blanketed hills. But behind all this bright magic,... Read more

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

By: Ben Montgomery

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's... Read more

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood

In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New... Read more

Unit X

By: Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah & Christopher...

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit.

A vast and largely unseen transformation... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

By: Sarah Jaffe

Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more