Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a communi...
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough, who narrates his...
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMSAt the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning indu...
The Greater Journey: Americans in Par...
David McCulloughDavid McCullough tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there.
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villain...
Robert MorganThomas Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the continent from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Ameri...
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jenn...
Elizabeth Dowling TaylorPaul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he...
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hea...
Evan ThomasOn February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, ...
Erik LarsonAuthor Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact,...
The Greater Journey: Americans in Par...
David McCulloughDavid McCullough tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there.
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and ...
Tom ClavinThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing powerBob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth cen...
The Old West: Stories and Legends
Joe LoeschThe Run of 93 - Hear the riveting story of the Oklahoma Land Rush. I Pioneers in Petticoats - Travel back in time with women who braved the journey west, including Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley and Baby Doe Tabor.DIV...
Bestselling author Sarah Vowell takes listeners on a historical journey to the tropical paradise of Hawaii, a place where American ideals went to die.
The Big Oyster: History on the Half S...
Mark KurlanskyAs he did previously in COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and in SALT: A WORLD HISTORY, historian Mark Kurlansky takes a unique, and rewarding, entry-point into the past, this time relating the rich social history of...
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull,...
Nathaniel PhilbrickFrom the author of the 'New York Times' bestseller 'In the Heart of the Sea' and the award-winning 'Sea of Glory' comes this chronicle of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories...
Michelle MalkinFirebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalis...
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis T...
Stephen E. AmbroseIn this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thom...
A gifted and well-practiced writer can tell an old story and make it seem new and exciting. Louis Menand is such a writer, and his version of the story of pragmatism is the most lively and integrated yet told. Menand's incisive and re...
American Colossus: The Triumph of Cap...
H. W. BrandsFrom bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. The three decades after the Civil War saw a ...
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rival...
H. W. BrandsFrom New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future...
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson...
Tom ClavinDodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expand...
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of ...
Jeff GuinnBestselling author Jeff Guinn presents for the first time the full story of the gunfight at Tombstone's O.K. Corral, one of the Old West's most famous battles
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of ...
Jeff GuinnBestselling author Jeff Guinn presents for the first time the full story of the gunfight at Tombstone's O.K. Corral, one of the Old West's most famous battles
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson...
Steve InskeepA thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American historyFive decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a c...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New...
Brian KilmeadeAnother history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, now with an afterword delving into Jackson's influence on later U.S. Presidents.The War of ...
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: T...
Brian KilmeadeThe heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the...
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Ma...
Candice MillardJames A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for presid...
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Pl...
Brad MeltzerNarrator Scott Brick]...makes the pages come alive. He varies his volume during dramatic moments, at times almost whispering. He also varies his tone, enhancing the drama but never overpowering it...This work is an excellent example o...