History Audio Books

Nina Joan Mattikow
The Fabulous 50's

Eisenhower followed Truman into the White House. Dr. Martin Luther King led the Montgomery bus boycott. Marilyn Monroe and James Dean were movie idols....

Nina Joan Mattikow
The Fabulous 60's

The first troops went to Vietnam. Bob Dylan sang Blowin' in the Wind. Star Trek debuted on TV. On November 22, 1963, the assassination of JFK shocked the nation....

Gregory A. Freeman
The Forgotten 500 (Unabridged)

The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines....

Amity Shlaes
The Forgotten Man (Unabridged)

Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected stories of individual Americans....

James Campbell
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea (Unabridged)

The 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of World War II's entire Pacific campaign....

William Manchester
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972 (Unabridged)

This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

Andrew Nagorski
The Greatest Battle (Unabridged)

Based on previously secret documents and eyewitness testimony, this is the shocking account of the most massive and deadliest battle of World War II....

Barbara W. Tuchman
The Guns of August (Unabridged)

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....

Alan M. Dershowitz
The Modern Scholar: Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation

The focus of this course is on landmark trials and the important, dramatic aspects of the time in which they occurred....

Dr. Margaret MacMillan
The Modern Scholar: Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....