History

1931

by Tobias Straumann; read by Nigel Patterson

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

Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party. Learn More

38 Nooses

by Scot W. Berg; read by Paul Heitsch

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

Scott W. Berg recounts an overlooked but seminal moment in American history. Learn More

47 Ronin

John Allyn; foreword by Stephen Turnbull; read by David Shih

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For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan. Learn More

The Abolitionist's Daughter

by Diane C. McPhail; read by Kirsten Potter

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In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. Learn More

The Accident of Color

by Daniel Brook; read by David Sadzin

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

A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. Learn More

Adams: An American Dynasty

by Francis Russell; read by Patrick Lawlor

Here is the compelling and impressive story of the Adams dynasty. Learn More

The Age of Anxiety

Haynes Johnson; read by Kristoffer Tabori

Pulitzer-Prize winner Haynes Johnson boldly revisits the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era to examine parallels today in this new age of terror and threat with a mix of narrative history, political commentary, and contemporary reporting. Learn More

The Age of Caesar

by Plutarch, translated by Pamela Mensch and James Romm; read by Michael Page

A brilliant new translation of five of history’s greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography. Learn More

The Age of Walls

by Tim Marshall; read by Nigel Patterson

Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. Learn More

The Aleppo Codex

Matti Friedman; read by Simon Vance

Booklist’s Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Books

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

Alexander Graham Bell

by Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson; read by Donald Corren

Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Alexander Graham Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. 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

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

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

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

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 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 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 Foreign Relations

by Andrew Preston; read by Keith Sellon-Wright