History Audio Books

Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths...

The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...

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

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.

August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...

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.

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

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate....

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?

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...