History

Kent State

by Brian VanDeMark; read by Daniel Hennig

A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences. Learn More

A Plausible Man

by Susanna Ashton; read by Leon Nixon

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. Learn More

With original reporting including new testimony witnesses never shared with police, College Girl, Missing dives into the disappearance that captured front-page headlines around the world. Investigative journalist Shawn Cohen breaks more than a decade of silence as he pursues the truth: what really happened to Lauren Spierer? Learn More

Impossible Monsters

by Michael Taylor; read by Michael Langan

"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age. Learn More

Most Honorable Son

by Gregg Jones; read by Christopher Douyard

The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten Japanese American war hero Ben Kuroki, who fought the Axis powers during World War II and battled racism, injustice, and prejudice on the home front. Learn More

Reap the Whirlwind

by Peter Houlahan; read by Joshua Saxon

The bestselling author of Norco '80 returns with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern California. Learn More

Irena's Gift

by Karen Kirsten; read by Karen Kirsten

Weaving mystery, history, and memoir, Irena's Gift is the captivating account of one woman's personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family's secret war-torn history. Learn More

Behind Closed Doors

by Ken Khachigian; read by Dean Gallagher

A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture. Learn More

Making Makers

by Michael P. M. Finch; read by Kent Klineman

Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy. Learn More

The Longest Con

by Joe Conason; read by Steve Marvel

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise—and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right's moral decay. Learn More

Dispersals

by Jessica J. Lee; read by Jessica J. Lee

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. Learn More

Toxic Water, Toxic System

by Michael Mascarenhas; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. Learn More

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

by Manisha Sinha; read by Deepa Samuel

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. Learn More

Origin Story

by Howard Markel; read by Mike Cooper

A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More

Empire of God

by Robert Spencer; read by Bob Souer

Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. However, Western society has other forefathers as well: we would be unwise to give the Byzantine Empire short shrift. The ways in which it has influenced our world for the good, and indeed, created the parameters of our society at its healthiest and strongest, are insufficiently appreciated today. Learn More

The Great River

by Boyce Upholt; read by Gabriel Vaughan

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

Heart of American Darkness

by Robert G. Parkinson; read by Shawn Compton

An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation. Learn More

Why War?

by Richard Overy, PhD; read by Dennis Kleinman

Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Learn More

Bloody Tuesday

by John M. Giggie; read by Christopher Grove

The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States. Learn More

Comparative Mythology

by Jaan Puhvet; read by Nigel Patterson

In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-European origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detailed reference. Learn More

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