History Audio Books

George Weller
First into Nagasaki (Unabridged)

On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city....

James R. Gaines
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (Unabridged)

On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted a horse and kicked it into a gallop....

Jeffrey St. John
Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent's Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rights (Unabridged)

One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this eyewitness account of America's first Federal elections....

Steven Waldman
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Unabridged)

The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely....

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Founding Fathers: Architects of a Nation (Unabridged)

Founding Fathers: Architects of a Nation sheds new light on the revolutionary leaders who planned, fought for, and created the United States of America....

Jeff Shaara
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of one of the Civil War battlefields every American should visit. He captures the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict....

Anthony Lewis
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Unabridged)

Americans are free to say and write what they think. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just 14 words in our most fundamental legal document....

Jacqueline Tobin with Hettie Jones
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (Unabridged)

The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers....

Don Keith and Ken Henry
Gallant Lady: A Biography of the USS Archerfish (Unabridged)

The Archerfish, a diesel powered Balao-class submarine crafted in the 1940s, won a unique, heroic place in military history....

Joseph T. Glatthaar
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (Unabridged)

This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....