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.
This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums [2].
A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:
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 [5]
There are 15 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 [6]
History
2020k (History) [7] Large collection of links. Available in varying formats.
AcrobatPlanet [8]
has 11 unique historical works for free download in PDF.
Arthur's Classic Novels (History) [9] Interesting collection available for online viewing.
BookYards (History) [10] Over a thousand books available for download in PDF.
Bored.com (History) [11] has 2035 books available for online viewing. Separated into countries and world history categories and then searchable by title.
ChestofBooks (History) [12] 3 unusual books for online reading.
ClassicHistoryBooks [13] offers 6 unique works for online viewing.
DailyLit [14] offers 31 historical works for free.
eBooksDirectory [15] has 152 free historical novels in 8 categories. These are links off site, so download and viewing options vary.
FeedBooks offers 42 free ebooks in their Public Domain (History) [16] category as well as 2 additional free ebooks in their Original Books (History) [17] collections.
FreeBook-co-UK [18] has 7 free historical ebooks.
FreeeBooks.net (History) [19] 11 books available for download in pdf.
FreeOnlineBookstore [20] has about 40 free books available for download in pdf, in 5 categories: American, British, African, World and Asian history.
GenealogySearch [21] offers historical and genealogy books from around the world.
GetFreeEBooks [22] has 34 unique entries in its history category. These are unique entries not found elsewhere. The download and viewing options vary.
Globusz (History) [23] 12 books available for online viewing or download
GoogleBookSearch (History) [24] 811 books available for online viewing.
InternationalWorldHistoryProject [25]has a very good size collection of free historical novels for download. Some of the downloads are in EXE. I usually shy away from such offerings, but I checked these and they are clean. They also offer some works that require the TK3 reader, which I have previously checked as clean. Further down the page are a good number of PDF downloads.
LiteratureMaster [26] has 583 books in its History category available for online viewing.
ManyBooks (History) [27] 3403 books available for download in a variety of formats
MemoWare (History) [28] 1122 works available for download in a variety of formats
Munsey's (History) [29] 1437 books available for download in a large variety of formats.
OnlineBooksPage [30] has a large collection of links to online resources for free history books. Scroll down to choose from categories.
OnlineBooks4Free (History) [31] 106 books available for online viewing or download
Online Library of Liberty (History) [32] over a hundred works available for online viewing or download in pdf or ebooks pdf.
PennsylvaniaOnlineHistoryBooks [33] provides links to online books regarding the history of Pennsylvania.
PublicBookShelf (History) [34] 6 books available for online viewing.
TheHistoricalArchive [35] has the two volume work, Stories of the Civil War, available for download or viewing in PDF. This is mostly a pay site and this is the only free entry for now. The free offering does change from time to time and there is no registration required to obtain this free offer.
WorldWideSchool [36] has 210 novels in its History category, which is nicely divided into many sub-categories, available for online viewing.
History (audio)
BooksShouldBeFree [37] has 56 free audio books in its History category available for download in very good quality MP3 or as text for reading.
ejunto [38] has a small, but interesting, collection of free History, Science and Philosophy audio books available for download in good quality MP3.
FreeAudio [39] 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 [40] and 90 works under European History [41]. 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 [42] has 634 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 [43] has 398 free audio books under its History genre available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis. All are human read.
OpenCulture [44] 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 [45] has Great Moments in history available for download in very good quality MP3. They have now added 3 works from the Christian Holliness Collection and a work that looks at the history of TV from a Christian perspective.
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