Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
by Timothy S. Goeglein & Craig Osten; read by George W. Sarris
In this clear-eyed but hopeful guide to restoration, Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten explain how patriotic Americans, with God's help, can renew fifteen critical components of our culture. Learn More
A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about "cult" leaders and their messianic power. Learn More
Do you fear for our democracy? Are you perplexed by Trumpism? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don’t! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by cohost of WNYC's On the Media, Bob Garfield. Learn More
The epic road trips―and surprising friendship―of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age. Learn More
American JewBu highlights the leading role that American Jews have played in the popularization of meditation and mindfulness in the United States, and the profound impact that these two venerable traditions have had on one another. Learn More
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. Learn More
by Stephen E. Ambrose and C.L. Sulzberger; read by John Pruden
This book captures the courage, commitment, military genius, and horror of the war that gave birth to a new era in world politics. The American Heritage History of World War II is the definitive single-volume work on the subject and will endure as a major narrative of world history. Learn More
by Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn; read by David Drummond
Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Learn More
Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Francis Russell, is the vivid story of the confident years—those days of America's exuberant growth in population, industry, and world prestige—from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of World War I. Learn More
The untold story of Hamilton's—and Burr's—personal physician, whose dream to build America's first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. Learn More
This epic story of a nineteenth-century celestial drama will enthrall readers, as the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years plunges America into darkness. Learn More
The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society. Learn More
In American Audacity one of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters. Learn More
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. Learn More