Inspired by a Twitter exchange, I realized that I have not updated my list of history audiobooks since July 2019. Here are 43 I’ve listened to since then, mostly on Audible.com, some from Scribd or Chirp. It’s especially nice to see more university presses joining the club. Special thanks to Rebecca Tushnet for entering most of these in our LibraryThing account.
Armstrong, Karen | Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence | Anchor (2015), Edition: Reprint, 528 pages |
Catton, Bruce | The Battle of Gettysburg | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2016), 146 pages |
Chatelain, Marcia | Franchise : the golden arches in black America | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020. |
Cleves, Rachel Hope | Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
Cline, Eric H. | Digging Up Armageddon : The Search For the Lost City of Solomon | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020] |
Cox, Karen L. | Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South | The University of North Carolina Press (2017), 240 pages |
Dalrymple, William | The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire | Bloomsbury Publishing (2019), Edition: 1, 684 pages |
Deer, Brian | The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. |
Dickey, Jeff | Rising in flames : Sherman’s March and the fight for a new nation | New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2018. |
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong | Never caught : the Washingtons’ relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge | New York : 37 Ink/Atria, [2017] |
Egan, Timothy | The Immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. |
Grandin, Greg | The end of the myth : from the frontier to the wall in the mind of America | New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2019. |
Grann, David | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | Vintage (2018), Edition: Reprint, 400 pages |
Hochschild, Adam | Bury the chains : prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire’s slaves | Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2005. |
Hoganson, Kristin L. | The Heartland: An American History | Penguin Press (2019), 432 pages |
Jacoby, Karl | The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] |
Jacoby, Karl | Shadows at dawn : a borderlands massacre and the violence of history | New York : Penguin Press, 2008. |
Karp, Matthew | This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016. |
Keefe, Patrick Radden | Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland | New York : Doubleday, [2019] |
Kertzer, David I. | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe | Random House Trade Paperbacks (2015), 592 pages |
Krist, Gary | Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans | Broadway Books (2015), Edition: Reprint, 448 pages |
Levin, Kevin M. | Searching for black Confederates : the Civil War’s most persistent myth | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] |
Logevall, Fredrik | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | Random House Trade Paperbacks (2014), Edition: Reprint, 864 pages |
Malcolm, Joyce Lee | The tragedy of Benedict Arnold : an American life | New York : Pegasus Books, 2018. |
Nelson, Megan Kate | The three-cornered war : the Union, the Confederacy, and Native peoples in the fight for the West | New York : Scribner, [2020] |
Ngai, Mae M. | The lucky ones : one family and the extraordinary invention of Chinese America | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. |
Norton, Marcy | Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World | Cornell University Press (2010), 352 pages |
O’Mara, Margaret Pugh | The Code : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America | New York : Penguin Press, 2019. |
Okrent, Daniel | The guarded gate : bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America | New York : Scribner, 2019. |
Oshinsky, David M. | Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America’s most storied hospital | New York : Doubleday, [2016] |
Park, Benjamin E. | Kingdom of Nauvoo : the rise and fall of a religious empire on the American frontier | New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020] |
Rankin, Joy Lisi | A People’s History of Computing in the United States | Harvard University Press (2018), 336 pages |
Rubenhold, Hallie | The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Mariner Books (2020), Edition: Illustrated, 368 pages |
Scott, James C. | Against the grain : a deep history of the earliest states | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] |
Seo, Sarah A. | Policing the open road : how cars transformed American freedom | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. |
Stanley, Amy | Stranger in the Shogun’s city : a Japanese woman and her world | New York : Scribner, 2020. |
Stern, Scott | The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women | Beacon Press (2018) |
Stiles, T. J. | Jesse James : last rebel of the Civil War | New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002. |
Tuchman, Barbara W. | Practicing history : selected essays | New York : Ballantine Books, 1982, c1981. |
Turner, John G. | They knew they were pilgrims : plymouth colony and the contest for american liberty | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020. |
Weatherford, Jack | Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world | New York : Three Rivers Press, [2012] |
Young, Kevin | Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | Graywolf Press (2017), Edition: First Edition, 480 pages |
Zabin, Serena R. | The Boston Massacre : a family history | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. |