About This Collection
We’ve noticed—and applaud—a trend in our members' preferences for history: Audible listeners want to hear about events of the past with both discipline and nuance. You want authoritative synthesis and reliable facts, but also to hear about people's lived experience, preferably in novelistic detail. And all of us love some juicy reconstruction from time to time (Palace Papers, anyone?). This year, we picked the best performances to fill that tall order: Award-winning historians such as Candice Millard, Jon Meacham, Beverly Gage, and John C. McManus sit next to immersive dives into Nelson Mandela, Mamie Till-Mobley, participants in Live Aid, and survivors of the MOVE bombing. And Imani Perry, Wendell Berry, and Pietro La Greca Jr. draw upon the wisdom of personal journeys—through time and space—to offer the gifts of historical insight.-
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Summer of '85
- By: Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, SBH Productions
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rocked—in almost every sense of the word—by two unprecedented events: one, Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s May 13 decision to bomb the headquarters of MOVE, and two, the July 13 Live Aid concert....
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Necessary History
- By Kristena C
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Summer of '85
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-21-22
- Language: English
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....
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Wisdom, Intelligence and Frailty Exists in us All
- By K. Breinholt
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-18-22
- Language: English
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The Need to Be Whole
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
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The Need to Be Whole continues the work Wendell Berry began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others....
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Exceptional.
- By Susan C.
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The Need to Be Whole
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-25-22
- Language: English
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor....
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Interesting
- By BethA
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-13-22
- Language: English
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Till Today
- By: Pia Wilson, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Orion Pictures, Audible Studios
- Narrated by: April Ryan
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley....
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Powerful
- By AnaisKarim
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Till Today
- Narrated by: April Ryan
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-28-22
- Language: English
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Pesos
- The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- By: Pietro La Greca Jr., Rebecca Paley - contributor
- Narrated by: Tony Dalton
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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A true multigenerational story of how one family had and lost it all along the US-Mexican border....
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Couldn’t put it down
- By Felicity A Cooper
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Pesos
- The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- Narrated by: Tony Dalton
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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Mandela: The Lost Tapes
- By: Richard Stengel
- Narrated by: Richard Stengel
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In 1993, after 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela sat down with ghostwriter Richard Stengel to begin working on Long Walk to Freedom, a critically acclaimed memoir that would become a best seller around the globe….
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Loved
- By Paula
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Mandela: The Lost Tapes
- Narrated by: Richard Stengel
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 11-04-22
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
- By: John C. McManus, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John C. McManus
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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In The Vietnam War, you will learn about the causes and consequences of the war in Vietnam. You will explore the scope of American intervention from air campaigns to large-scale military operations on the ground....
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The best American-Vietnam War audiobook
- By Taylor Rentz
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The Vietnam War
- Narrated by: John C. McManus
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-04-22
- Language: English
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South to America
- A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery....
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It cuts
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South to America
- A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-25-22
- Language: English
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
- By: Beverly Gage
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
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A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....
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Pretty good for a looong biography
- By D. Frrazier
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-22-22
- Language: English
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The Palace Papers
- Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet....
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Detailed and Balanced
- By Rose Rustlers
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The Palace Papers
- Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-26-22
- Language: English
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....
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A story of man's explorations
- By LD
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-17-22
- Language: English
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