History audiobooks

Populus

By: Guy de la Bédoyère

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata.



Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient Rome was stimulating, dynamic, and often downright... Read more

Paddleways of Mississippi

By: Ernest Herndon & Patrick Parker

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state's geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its arteries, its lifeblood, and the connective tissues that tie its stories and histories together and flood them with a sense of place and impel them... Read more

Peep Light

By: Lee Hendrix

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River. Hendrix, formerly a pilot... Read more

True West

By: Betsy Gaines Quammen

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging... Read more

Forgotten War

By: Brian E. Walter

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless... Read more

Algorithms of Armageddon

By: George Galdorisi & Sam J. Tangredi

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

It is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been thrust into an artificial intelligence race with authoritarian powers. The United States' peer adversaries—China and Russia—have made clear their intentions to make major investments in AI and insert this technology into their military systems,... Read more

NASA and the American South

By: Brian C. Odom & Stephen P. Waring

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

During the Cold War, federal funding for the space program transformed the southern United States as NASA built most of its major new facilities in the region and invested heavily in Project Apollo. This volume examines the economic, social, political, and cultural impacts of NASA on the South since the space program was founded in 1958 and... Read more

How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism

By: David J. Nelson

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Countering the conventional narrative that Florida's tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida's tourism. David Nelson argues that state and federal government programs designed to reboot the economy during this decade are crucial to... Read more

All the Years Combine

By: Ray Robertson

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.



Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia's heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row, courtesy of the... Read more

Beyond Vietnam \ MAs allA de Vietnam (Spanish edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Emil Matos

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermosa edición conmemorativa del discurso Más allá de Vietnam del Dr. Martin Luther King, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. En 1967, en la iglesia Riverside de la Ciudad de Nueva York, el Dr. King se paró frente a una audiencia entusiasmada y criticó la guerra de Vietnam como un acto de fuerza... Read more

Above the Ground

By: Dan Lawton

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army, determined to drive the hated British out of the province—killing soldiers and police, detonating bombs, while arming themselves with firearms and explosives—had been arrested and incarcerated in... Read more

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

By: Matthew Rowley

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This book explores how polarized interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism, sexism, and exploitation. Additionally, these Protestants... Read more

Battleground

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East



The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated... Read more

Gaslight

By: Jonathan Mingle

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the "public interest"—because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called "bridge... Read more

Memory and Authority

By: Jack M. Balkin

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court's current embrace of originalism is only the most recent example of how lawyers and judges try to use history to establish authority for their positions. Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often... Read more

The Diplomacy of the American Revolution

By: Samuel Flagg Bemis

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for... Read more

Spycraft

By: Pete Langman & Nadine Akkerman

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination



Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators pitted their wits against each other in deadly games of hide and seek. Theirs was a dangerous... Read more

Our God Is Marching On \ Dios avanza con nosotros (Spanish edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Emil Matos

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermosa edición conmemorativa del discurso Our God Is Marching On del Dr. Martin Luther King, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. Al terminar la marcha de Selma a Montgomery el 25 de marzo de 1965, el Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. se plantó frente a una multitud y celebró el trabajo riguroso y el esfuerzo... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Randall Woods

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 38 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams

In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.

Born the first son of John and Abigail... Read more

My Roman History

By: Alizah Holstein

Narrated by: Alizah Holstein

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and Home/Land

In this... Read more

Military Strategy

By: Antulio J. Echevarria II

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccol? Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J. Echevarria II highlights the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy:... Read more

After the Flying Saucers Came

By: Greg Eghigian

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age, giving rise to disputed government inquiries,... Read more

New Deal Law and Order

By: Anthony Gregory

Narrated by: Bob Johnson

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt's efforts to end the Depression and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a defining... Read more

The Apple II Age

By: Laine Nooney

Narrated by: Krystal Hammond

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the marketplace by his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the Apple II became one of the most prominent personal computers of this dawning... Read more