History Audio Books

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

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

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. It killed more people in 20 weeks than AIDS has killed in 20 years.

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...

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

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.

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.

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?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader and visionary of the civil rights movement, was first and foremost a preacher...