History

Gold, Oil and Avocados

by Andy Robinson; read by Andre Bellido

In Gold, Oil, and Avocados, Robinson takes listeners from the salt plains of Chile to the depths of the Amazonian jungle to stitch together the story of Latin America's last decade, showing how the imperial plunder of the past carries on today under a new name. Learn More

The Golden State Killer Case

by William Thorp; read by Lynn E. Palermo; read by Josh Innerst

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

William Thorp examines the Golden State Killer case in this must-listen entry in the Fifty States of Crime series. Learn More

The Golden Thread

by Kassia St. Clair; read by Helen Johns

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through thirteen charismatic episodes. Learn More

Gone at Midnight

by Jake Anderson; read by Erik Bloomquist

A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon—and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Learn More

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela

Zelda la Grange; read by Adjoa Andoh; introduction read by the author

A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries. 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

The Great Departure

Tara Zahra; read by Elizabeth Wiley

A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Learn More

The Great River

by Boyce Upholt; read by Gabriel Vaughan

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A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. Learn More

The Great Shift

by James L. Kugel; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today. Learn More

The Greek Connection

by James H. Barron; read by Robert Fass

In The Greek Connection, James H. Barron uncovers the story of one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century political history. Learn More

Grinnell

by John Taliaferro; read by Joe Barrett

The alarm that George Bird Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro's commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Learn More

Grow and Hide

by Colleen M. Grogan; read by Christina Delaine

A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. Learn More

Guardian

by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin

A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

by Linda Colley; read by Susan Ericksen

Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. Learn More