History Audio Books

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."

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

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

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.

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

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.

Swept along in the tide of events leading to the Boston Tea Party and the first skirmishes of Lexington and Concord, young Johnny Tremain lives the birth of America first-hand....

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?

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