History Audio Books

In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1968, Will and Ariel Durant summarized some of the periods and trends in history they had recognized from their study of 5,000 years of world history in their short work The Lessons of History.

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the 20th century...

Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword written and read by Amanda Gorman.

A stunning historical account of the battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West--in the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks...

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel answers the question: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit.