History

American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914

by Francis Russell; read by Mike Chamberlain

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

American Heritage History of the American Revolution

by Bruce Lancaster; read by Paul Boehmer

The American Heritage History of the American Revolution is the complete chronicle of the Revolutionary War told in full detail. Learn More

American Foreign Relations

by Andrew Preston; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

This Very Short Introduction analyzes the key episodes, themes, and individuals in the history of American foreign relations. Learn More

American Eden

by Victoria Johnson; read by Susan Ericksen

National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist 2018

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

American Eclipse

by David Baron; read by Jonathan Yen

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

American Cuisine

by Paul Freedman; read by Paul Heitsch

With an ambitious sweep over two hundred years, Paul Freedman's compelling history shows that there actually is an American cuisine. Learn More

American Character

Colin Woodard; read by Jonathan Yen

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

American Audacity

by William Giraldi; read by Stephen Graybill

In American Audacity one of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters. Learn More

America's Jewish Women

by Pamela Nadell; read by Suzanne Toren

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A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. Learn More

The Amazons

Adrienne Mayor; read by Fran Tunno

Driven by a detective’s curiosity, Adrienne Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. Learn More

The Alps

by Stephen O'Shea; read by Robert Fass

A thrilling blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (Washington Post). Learn More

All Up

by J.W. Rinzler; read by Paul Woodson

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Bestselling Star Wars author and former Lucasfilm creative executive J. W. Rinzler combines actual and speculative history in a sweeping re-creation of the dramatic race to develop rockets, dominate the skies over Earth, and explore our Solar System—an epic that rages through World War II and culminates with the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Learn More

All This Marvelous Potential

by Matthew Algeo; read by David Colacci

All This Marvelous Potential retraces Robert F. Kennedy's 1967–68 tour of eastern Kentucky and provides a new portrait of the politician—a politician of uncommon courage who was unafraid to shine a light on our shortcomings. Learn More

All They Will Call You

by Tim Z. Hernandez; read by Tim Z. Hernandez

Combining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind Woody Guthrie's legendary song "Deportee." Learn More

All the Rage

by Josh Cohen; read by Keith Wickham

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available September

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The intriguing story of the quest to recover the missing pages from one of the world’s most important holy texts: the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as Aleppo Codex. Learn More

Albert Einstein's "Why Socialism?"

by Albert Einstein; edited by John Bellamy Foster; read by Mike Cooper

NEW! Now Available

A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialism. Learn More

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