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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.
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt; read by Tavia Gilbert
Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. Learn More
Midnight in Siberia
David Greene; read by the author
NPR host David Greene travels along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, capturing an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin. Learn More
Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert; read by Jim Frangione
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Learn More
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Jonathan Horn; read by David Drummond
A young, enormously talented historian tells the story of why Robert E. Lee, the one soldier who most embodied the legacy of George Washington, chose to fight for the South, a decision that changed American history. Learn More
The Girl From Human Street
Roger Cohen; read by Simon Vance
An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family, that assays the impact of memory, displacement, and a pervasive sense of separateness. Learn More
Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner; read by J.D. Jackson
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Learn More
No Good Men Among the Living
Anand Gopal; read by Assaf Cohen
Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan, and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. Learn More
NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies
NPR; hosted by Cokie Roberts
Audie Finalist
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
While the role of the first lady has changed dramatically over the course of the nation’s history, one thing remains constant: Americans have always been fascinated by the wives of the President. Learn More
The Tutor
Andrea Chapin; read by Elizabeth Knowelden
A bold and captivating novel about love, passion, and ambition that imagines the muse of William Shakespeare and the tumultuous year they spend together. Learn More
Lincoln's Body
Richard Wightman Fox; read by Pete Larkin
A groundbreaking, magisterial study that explains why, like Walt Whitman, we "love the President personally."
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. Learn More
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. Learn More
Madison's Gift
David O. Stewart; ready by Grover Gardner
Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander Hamilton, political ally Thomas Jefferson, successor James Monroe, and his wife, Dolley. Learn More
Sisters of Shiloh
Kathy Hepinstall and Becky Hepinstall; read by Xe Sands
Joseph and his cousin Thomas are struggling to survive in the Confederate Army. But even as they face the horrors of war, they have a secret which could free them: they?re sisters, Josephine and Libby. Learn More
Eye of the Beholder
Laura J. Snyder; ready by Tamara Marston
AudioFile Earphone Award Winner
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. Learn More
Washington's Circle
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; read by David Drummond
George Washington was a singular, often aloof man who sought out the counsel of a few, trusted men to help him share his task of governing the new nation. In WASHINGTON'S CIRCLE, David and Jeanne Heidler introduce not just the president but the group of extraordinary men who advised him. Learn More
The Tapestry
Nancy Bilyeau; ready by Nicola Barber
The next page-turner in the Joanna Stafford series takes place in the heart of the Tudor court, as the plucky young former novice risks everything to defy the most powerful men of her era. Learn More
The Strangler Vine
M.J. Carter; read by Alex Wyndham
Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.
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Nikolaus Wachsmann; read by Paul Hodgson
In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called the gray zone. Learn More
So Many Roads
David Browne; read by Sean Runnette
An acclaimed journalist sheds new light on one of rock’s most iconic bands. Learn More
The Negotiator
George Mitchell; read by Norman Dietz
Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he’s learned about the art of negotiation. Learn More
Broadcast Hysteria
A. Brad Schwartz; read by Sean Runnette
The enthralling and never-told story of the War of the Worlds radio drama and its true aftermath. Learn More
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