OpenStax U.S. History Audiobook/Audio Textbook
The OpenStax U.S. History Audiobook deepens your grasp of the American experience. It offers a lively, narrated journey through the nation’s past. This audiobook combines detailed historical insights with an engaging and easy-to-follow format. Audileo, an official OpenStax technology partner, presents the complete, professionally recorded audio textbook for this entry-level course. This tool covers the forces that molded the country, providing an unbiased view that integrates politics and economics with the daily lives of different populations, focusing particularly on issues of race, class, and gender. With over 42 hours of material, this audiobook turns downtime into active learning, with it being simple to go back over complex historical events and key themes, ensuring a command of the material wherever your busy student life takes you.
- Audiobook duration: 42 hrs
- Last updated: January 2025
- Textbook Publisher: OpenStax
- Audiobook Publisher: Audileo
The OpenStax U.S. History textbook is carefully organized to fit the requirements of most introductory American history courses. It provides a balanced view of the nation’s past, connecting key elements like politics, economics, and diplomacy with the important perspectives of firsthand accounts and the experiences of different groups. The textbook’s narrative emphasizes significant social issues, focusing especially on the complicated relationships between race, class, and gender throughout history. This two-sided approach helps students develop a deep and nuanced understanding of how events, people, and ideas have shaped the United States over time.
Textbook Authors: P. Scott Corbett, Ventura College; Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton; John M. Lund, Keene State College; Todd Pfannestiel, Clarion University; Sylvie Waskiewicz; Paul Vickery, Oral Roberts University
This is an audio adaptation of the U.S. History textbook by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as a PDF for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to the audio version to ensure a better listening experience.
The OpenStax U.S. History PDF textbook is available here.
Listen to Chapter 1 of our OpenStax U.S. History Audiobook on YouTube!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Yes, OpenStax provides a free pdf for the US History textbook on their website. Additionally, students get access to a web view option.
Yes, the Audileo U.S. History Audiobook is an almost exact replica of the OpenStax U.S. History textbook. Minor editorial changed were made to ensure a better listening experience. The chapter structure is the same.
OpenStax offers a complete set of resources for teachers, including test banks, lecture slides, and instructor manuals. You can create an account and request verification on the OpenStax website.
Check your local library via Libby/OverDrive or Hoopla. Alternatively, you can purchase OpenStax American History on most major audiobook retailers.
About Audileo
Audileo delivers verified academic excellence and career readiness through constant technological innovation. We serve as the exclusive official technology partner for OpenStax, providing the indispensable audio versions for their entire collection of open-access college textbooks. This vital partnership guarantees that students are consistently receiving high-quality, peer-reviewed, and up-to-date content delivered via a clean, professionally narrated platform. Our mission remains clear and actionable: to fully utilize the inherent flexibility of audio to remove common educational barriers and empower university students to study smarter, achieve notably higher academic standards, and confidently pursue their specialized career goals with a robust knowledge base.
About OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative founded at Rice University, dedicated to expanding access to high-quality education for all learners. The OpenStax textbooks are the most widely used open educational resources (OER) textbooks in the world. OpenStax publishes free, high-quality, peer-reviewed, open licensed textbooks that are used by millions of high school, college, and university students and educators in over 150 countries. Their mission is to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of education by providing reliable, accessible, and adaptable learning resources.
Founded on the belief that educational opportunities should be available to everyone, OpenStax partners with educators, subject experts, and institutions to create resources that meet the highest academic standards. In addition to textbooks, OpenStax offers supplemental tools like instructor materials, learning technology integrations, and now audiobooks, ensuring that college and university students of all learning styles and abilities have the support they need to succeed. OpenStax has chosen Audileo™ as the official Technology Partner to deliver its textbook content in audiobook format.