Paul Collins Audio Books

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr.

The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare's First Folio, the world's most obsessively pursued book

The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins...

The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth.

A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.

A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university

When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head ... but not answer to his own name.