Free History Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books on History, for reading and listening (audio).

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 100+ Places For Free Books Online
• Free Audio Books Online

There will be other books on History at the sites listed there, but they are not categorized at the sites.

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials regarding history.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 12 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

History

2020k (History)  Large collection of links.  Available in varying formats

Arthur's Classic Novels (History)  Interesting collection available for online viewing

BookYards (History)  Over a thousand books available for download in pdf

Bored.com (History) has 2035 books available for online viewing.  Separated into countries and world history categories and then searchable by title.

ChestofBooks (History)  3 unusual books for online reading

FeedBooks (History)  Around a hundred books available for download in a variety of formats

FreeBookSpot (History)  Around a hundred books available for download in pdf

FreeeBooks.net (History)  3 books available for download in pdf

Globusz (History)  12 books available for online viewing or download

GoogleBookSearch (History)  811 books available for online viewing

Heygidday (History)  Nice size collection available for download in pdf

ManyBooks (History)  2467 books available for download in a variety of formats

MemoWare (History)  1122 works available for download in a variety of formats

Munsey's (History) 1437 books available for download in a large variety of formats

OnlineBooks4Free (History)  106 books available for online viewing or download

Online Library of Liberty (History) over a hundred works available for online viewing or download in pdf or ebooks pdf

PublicBookShelf (History)  7 books available for online viewing

Qvadis (History) 726 works available for download in doc format

Wowio (History)  62 books available for online viewing

History (audio)

BooksShouldBeFree has 56 free audio books in its History category available for download in very good quality MP3 or as text for reading.

ejunto has a small, but interesting, collection of free History, Science and Philosophy audio books available for download in good quality MP3.

FreeAudio small collection of free audio books, mostly USA historical/political, with a couple of unusual entries.  They are available for download in MP3.

FreeBooks.org has 37 free audio works under American History and 90 works under European History.  These are available for download in good quality MP3.  Most of the entries are computer read, though there are a few human read audio books.

LearnOutLoud has 452 audio works under its History category, which is also sub-categorized. They are available in different ways, including online listening, MP3 or MP4 as many link to other sites.

LibriVox has 275 free audio books under its History genre available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis.  All are human read.

OpenCulture has about 30 free audio books under its History category available for free download in good quality MP3 or iTunes compatible.  Some are available for direct download, but most link to other sites for download.

PodioBooks has Great Moments in history available for download in very good quality MP3.