History Audio Books

Matthew Parker
Panama Fever (Unabridged)

The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....

Paul Krugman, Leonard Lopate
Paul Krugman in Conversation with Leonard Lopate: The Conscience of a Liberal at the 92nd Street Y

Economist Paul Krugman examines the past 80 years of American history, focusing on economic reforms and achievements and what he sees as increased inequality in our society....

Jim Lacey
Pershing: The Great Generals Series (Unabridged)

In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander....

American RadioWorks
Radio Fights Jim Crow

During the World War II years, a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America....

Ray Mears
Real Heroes of Telemark

Sixty years ago, four men parachuted onto a Norwegian glacier, equipped with only the most basic equipment. Their mission was to prevent the Nazi regime from building an atomic bomb....

Tony Judt
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century (Unabridged)

The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia....

Vincent Bugliosi
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Bugliosi has devoted almost 20 years of his life to this project and is determined to show that, despite the overwhelming popular perception, Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone....

Matthew Brzezinski
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age (Unabridged)

On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

Neal Bascomb
Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin (Unabridged)

In Red Mutiny, Neal Bascomb turns his attention to the legendary uprising aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905....

American RadioWorks
Remembering Jim Crow

For much of the 20th century, African-Americans endured a legal system in the American South that was calculated to segregate and humiliate them....