Top Free History Audiobooks

I hate every wave of the ocean', the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle....

The Battle of Gettysburg - the turning point of the American Civil War - would, in the words of one staff officer, stand “like Waterloo, conspicuous in the history of all ages"....

The wait is over. After a two-year investigation, the results of The Mueller Report have been released to the public. Now listen to an audio version of one of the most talked about government documents in history ....

In a rousing speech on race, poverty, and economic justice - given less than a year before his assassination - Martin Luther King Jr. drives home the mission behind his Poor People's Campaign....

Included here is a selection of recordings of Federal Aviation Administration, Defense Department, and American Airlines communications from September 11, 2001....

This is an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December 17th letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding the impeachment inquiry....  

The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture" is a public document belonging to the American people, arising from the Senate investigation into the CIA’s Interrogation and Detention Program. Here, you can hear the report in its entirety....

From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts....

In this interview, Simon Winchester, the international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, talks about his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906....

Michelle Obama, the wife of Sen. Barack Obama, speaks on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 25, 2008....

George W. Bush, the president of the United States, speaks on the second night of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, September 2, 2008....

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s....

How should schools prepare students for the Information Age? The successful worker of the future - a creative, independent thinker who works well in teams - would seem to be too self-contradictory to be the deliberate product of a school....

Here is a recording of a War Department pamphlet aimed at U.S. Servicemen in Britain in 1942....

This is an audio recording of The Articles of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump, President of the United States issued by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and the Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 9, 2019....

On December 16, 2019, Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, and the full Committee on the Judiciary released an updated version of the Impeachment Report....

An interview with James L. Swanson, author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer....

My Life as a Clay Pigeon takes you back in time through the eyes of a 19-year-old country boy's WWII service diary and his fascinating journeys with the 306th Bomb Group, the Reich Wreckers....

Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential election, speaks on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008....

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, speaks on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, September 3, 2008....