American Heritage

Freedom on Trial

by Scott Farris; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. Learn More

The Fruit of All My Grief

by J. Malcolm Garcia; read by Danny Campbell

Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media. Learn More

A Furious Sky

by Eric Jay Dolin; read by Bob Souer

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With A Furious Sky, bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Learn More

The Gamesmaster

by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer

Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More

Generation Citizen

by Scott Warren; read by Graham Halstead

Championing the activism of young people around the world, Generation Citizen is an empowering reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to fight for democracy. Learn More

George Washington

by Kevin J. Hayes; read by David Colacci

This sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America. Learn More

Germany: A History

by Francis Russell: read by A.T. Chandler

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Franics Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany—from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron rule of Otto von Bismarck, and from the formation of the Weimar Republic to the fighting of two world wars. Learn More

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

by Gordon H. Chang; read by David Shih

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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now. Learn More

The Gifted Generation

David Goldfield; read by Mike Chamberlain

A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post–World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream. Learn More

Girl in Black and White

by Jessie Morgan-Owens; read by Allyson Johnson

The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked "white"—whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. Learn More

Go All The Way

by Paul Myers & S.W. Lauden; featuring Michael Chabon; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Learn More

Going Big

by Robert Kuttner; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz; read by Robert Kuttner

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyond. Learn More

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

by Lerone A. Martin; read by Langston Darby

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. Learn More

The Great Air Race

by John Lancaster; read by Jonathan Todd Ross

The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest―and put American aviation on the map. Learn More