History Audio Books

From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.

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.

The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) ...

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

The dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics....

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States that reminds us of fundamental American principles.

At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the onsequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.

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

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

In the summer of 1942, a band of citizen soldiers were brought together by the desire to be better than the other guy...