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Two and a half centuries. Thirteen colonies to fifty states. From Lexington to the smartphone, from the Declaration to the Dust Bowl, from Appomattox to 9/11—the full story, told in one audiobook. In July 2026, the United States marks two hundred and fifty years since the Declaration of Independence. A quarter of a millennium of revolution, war, expansion, struggle, invention, immigration, and reinvention. A story that began with thirteen colonies on the edge of an empire—and produced the most powerful country in human history.

Everything you were taught about the dawn of mankind is a lie. Why do ancient monuments across the globe share the same "impossible" technology? What if the gods of our ancestors weren't myths, but visitors who left their fingerprints in our DNA? In Forbidden History, Dominic Haynes pulls back the curtain on a suppressed past that mainstream scholars refuse to acknowledge. From the sunken ruins of lost empires to the precision-cut stones of the Andes, this book connects the dots of a global cover-up.

Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated around the world, there were no available witnesses to his suicide—and his corpse was not put on display. This created the perfect vacuum for myth and survival legends, while rival intelligence agencies and propaganda further confounded the investigations of successive historians.

ZIONISTS TEND TO DESPISE THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THEIR HATRED NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED. THAT BEGINS WITH YOU. IT BEGINS WITH THIS BOOK...

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity. On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial...

‘A must-read for those fascinated by the decline and fall of the USSR and the emergence of a new Russia’ – Mark Galeotti, author of Forged in War 'Finely argued, carefully researched, and beautifully written' – Norman M. Naimark, author of Stalin and the Fate of Europe From the acclaimed...

Former CIA operations officer Robert Marro Jr. pens a gripping memoir about his close friend and confidante, the famed enigmatic exorcist, bestselling author, and Vatican insider Malachi Martin. In this riveting firsthand account, Robert Marro Jr. pulls back the veil on the life of the...

This is not a story about war. It is a story about what it takes to survive it—before, during, and long after. When your earliest memories are shaped by fear, violence, and the absence of protection, something changes. For Steve Brown, that change came early. Growing up in a chaotic environment, he learned quickly that no one was coming to help—and that if he wanted safety, he would have to become it. After a troubled adolescence marked by crime and poor choices, a second chance led him to the British Army.

As Pan American World Airways teetered on bankruptcy, could the shah of Iran provide the capital to restore it to solvency? Or would his financial bailout endanger the lives of Pan Am’s executives because a religious revolution is brewing? The Plum Thief is the turbulent story of activists who forged a new government in the 1970s by battling Western businessmen in their efforts to topple the shah of Iran.

The assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't just ignite the fuse to the tinderbox that was Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. When war was declared and the soldiers set off to fight the "war to end all wars," World War I realigned nations, sent their economies reeling, and toppled thrones and classes. Hungary was a particularly vivid example of how quickly a nation's fate could plummet from empire to supplicant.

Discover the remarkable life of Sacagawea... Sacagawea is widely known as the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark across the western frontiers of North America in the early 1800s. It was an extraordinary journey that took a small band of explorers thousands of miles into uncharted territory, across treacherous mountain passes, vast plains, and all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. This was indeed a remarkable and historic period for both Sacagawea and the rapidly growing nation of the United States.

A Brief History of Minneapolis traces the evolution of a city built on water, industry, imagination, and reinvention. From the thunder of St. Anthony Falls to the rise of the world’s flour capital, from immigrant neighborhoods to artistic revolutions, from labor struggles to moments that reshaped national dialogue, Minneapolis emerges as a place defined by its people and their capacity to build, create, and confront change.

Set sail on a gripping journey through one of history’s most extraordinary empires. The History of the Portuguese Empire: Ships, Souls, and Silver brings to life the rise and fall of a maritime kingdom that reshaped the world. From stormy Atlantic coasts to the spice-scented ports of India, from the jungles of Brazil to the fortified enclaves of Africa and Asia, Portugal’s empire stretched across continents.

Lidia Rauch was born at the crossroads of South Africa's past and present – the granddaughter of one of apartheid's longest-serving ministers, raised in a world constructed for her comfort, yet called to reckon with its cost. Her story moves between privilege and pain: from a childhood marked by fracture, to a career within the machinery of government, to the long, uneasy road of reckoning with what it means to be white, Afrikaans, and free in a country still carrying the weight of its past.

Delaware's Forgotten Cavalry: A Failure of Command tells the remarkable true story of the First Delaware Cavalry during the American Civil War and the leadership crisis that nearly destroyed the regiment. Drawing from soldiers' diaries, letters, military records, and contemporary newspapers, historian David L. Tabler reveals a forgotten chapter of Civil War history through the eyes of the men who lived it. The story begins in June 1863 when Delaware cavalrymen unexpectedly faced J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate horsemen during the Gettysburg Campaign.

Meet the rulers who built, ruled, and nearly destroyed the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire didn’t rise by accident. It was shaped by emperors who ruled through brilliance, brutality, vision, fear—and sometimes madness.

The Ultimate Quest by Dr. Antonio Mataban is an epic historical fiction that spans five generations, beginning at the tail end of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines. Dr. Mataban's narrative sweeps through time, immersing readers in the lives of characters whose personal journeys...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Middle East conflict is one of the most covered and least understood stories in modern history. The headlines never stop. The context almost never arrives. The Middle East Conflict: A Plain-English Guide to What's Actually Happening is the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax U.S. History audiobook, produced by Audileo, an authorized OpenStax Technology Partner. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced...