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A People's History of the United States
By:
Howard Zinn
Narrated by:
Jeff Zinn
Length:
34 hours 10 minutes
Abridged:
No
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up,... Read more about A People's History of the United States
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Black AF History
By:
Michael Harriot
Narrated by:
Michael Harriot
Length:
15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged:
No
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more about Black AF History
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How the Word Is Passed
By:
Clint Smith
Narrated by:
Clint Smith
Length:
10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged:
No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that... Read more about How the Word Is Passed
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South to America
By:
Imani Perry
Narrated by:
Imani Perry
Length:
16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more about South to America
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Our Hideous Progeny
By:
C.E. McGill
Narrated by:
Florence Howard
Length:
12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged:
No
“A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue.” — Jess Kidd, author of The Night Ship“An immersive blend of historical and science fiction brims with surprises and dark delights. . . . An incisive exploration of women’s rights within the field of science. . . . Readers will revel in Mary’s personal and scientific... Read more about Our Hideous Progeny
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Divine Might
By:
Natalie Haynes
Narrated by:
Natalie Haynes
Length:
9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies,... Read more about Divine Might
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Madness
By:
Antonia Hylton
Narrated by:
Antonia Hylton
Length:
11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged:
No
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums..."a book that left me breathless" (Clint Smith). For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers through the ninety-three-year history... Read more about Madness
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The Worst Hard Time
By:
Timothy Egan
Narrated by:
Jacob York
Length:
12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities... Read more about The Worst Hard Time
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John Lewis
By:
David Greenberg
Narrated by:
David Sadzin
Length:
24 hours 27 minutes
Abridged:
No
Pulitzer Prize Finalist New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,” through a narrative that weaves together exclusive interviews, never-before-seen FBI files, and documents, offering profound... Read more about John Lewis
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Medgar and Myrlie
By:
Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by:
Joy-Ann Reid
Length:
10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 New York Times BestsellerNAACP Image Award WinnerFrom Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.“Medgar... Read more about Medgar and Myrlie
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American Midnight
By:
Adam Hochschild
Narrated by:
Jonathan Todd Ross
Length:
15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged:
No
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor""A riveting, resonant... Read more about American Midnight
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Unbought and Unbossed
By:
Shirley Chisholm
Narrated by:
Marcella Cox
Length:
5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
In this classic work—a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today—the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued the American system of... Read more about Unbought and Unbossed
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Master Slave Husband Wife
By:
Ilyon Woo
Narrated by:
Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon
Length:
12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged:
No
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they... Read more about Master Slave Husband Wife
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Undaunted Courage
By:
Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by:
Barrett Whitener
Length:
21 hours 42 minutes
Abridged:
No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more about Undaunted Courage
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Lindbergh
By:
A. Scott Berg
Narrated by:
Lloyd James
Length:
31 hours 9 minutes
Abridged:
No
Lindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his baby was kidnapped and found dead. The unbearable trial forced Lindbergh into exile in... Read more about Lindbergh
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Astoria
By:
Peter Stark
Narrated by:
Michael Kramer
Length:
10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged:
No
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to... Read more about Astoria
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The Far Traveler
By:
Nancy Marie Brown
Narrated by:
Eva Kaminsky
Length:
9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged:
No
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of... Read more about The Far Traveler
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Devil in the Grove
By:
Gilbert King
Narrated by:
Peter Francis James
Length:
17 hours 53 minutes
Abridged:
No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a... Read more about Devil in the Grove
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Last Seen
By:
Judith Giesberg
Narrated by:
Adenrele Ojo
Length:
10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital work of recovery.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters... Read more about Last Seen
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How Jesus Became God
By:
Bart D. Ehrman
Narrated by:
Walter Dixon
Length:
10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged:
No
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus... Read more about How Jesus Became God
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Wilson
By:
A. Scott Berg
Narrated by:
Jeremy Bobb
Length:
32 hours 30 minutes
Abridged:
No
In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.One hundred years after his... Read more about Wilson
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D-Day
By:
Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by:
Jesse Boggs
Length:
25 hours 17 minutes
Abridged:
No
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of... Read more about D-Day
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Spell Freedom
By:
Elaine Weiss
Narrated by:
Robin Miles
Length:
15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged:
No
The acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural... Read more about Spell Freedom
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Nothing Like It In The World
By:
Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by:
Jeffrey DeMunn
Length:
15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged:
No
In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more about Nothing Like It In The World
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