History Podcasts

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

21 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61K ratings
In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What...

Casefile True Crime

406 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31.7K ratings
Fact is scarier than fiction. Subscribe to Casefile Premium to receive ad-free episodes released one week early, along with access to bonus Q&A’s, our exclusive show ‘Behind the Files’, and more.

Serial Killers

585 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 28.1K ratings
Get a rare glimpse into the minds and methods of sadistic murderers. From notorious names like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy to lesser-known killers like “Death House Landlady” Dorothea Puente...

Slow Burn

242 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23.5K ratings
In 1978, state Sen. John Briggs put a bold proposition on the California ballot. If it passed, the Briggs Initiative would ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools—and fuel a growing ba...

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

51 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
“CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things. This season profiles legendary athl...

American Scandal

377 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17K ratings
Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage. Scandals have shaped America since its founding. From business and politics to spo...

Throughline

320 episodes - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 14.1K ratings
Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the mid...

Conspiracy Theories

532 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 11K ratings
The world’s most controversial events, and the complex beliefs behind them. From Bigfoot sightings to bitcoin takeovers, alien landings to assassinations, who’s shaping the narrative — and why? Con...

Astonishing Legends

383 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9K ratings
The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mu...

On the Media

726 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a sk...

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

49 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

29 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 7.8K ratings
Interviews, musings and extra material from the makers of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. If it did not fit in the HH feed it's probably here

Against The Odds

198 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratings
Humans are resilient. In our toughest moments, we will fight, we will struggle, and we will triumph...often against the odds.  In this immersive series from Wondery, host-adventurers Mike ...

Tides of History

318 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it ...

Unexplained Mysteries

464 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratings
Life can take unexpected turns. Some are easily defined. Others… require further investigation. Every Tuesday, collect the pieces of a seemingly unsolvable puzzle — events in history which have elu...

History on Fire

128 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.

Once Upon a Crime

800 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.6K ratings
Once Upon A Crime is a weekly true crime podcast that tells “the story behind the story” of real life crime. Told in a storytelling style, host Esther Ludlow digs into the details of each case to b...

Felonious Florida

45 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Beyond the beaches, the theme parks, the palm trees and the warm breezes lies the dark side of the Sunshine State. Wondery and the South Florida Sun Sentinel present a true-crime podcast th...

Trace Evidence

264 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast that focuses on unsolved cases, from chilling murders to missing persons. Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines each case, diving deep into the evide...

It Was Said

49 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, takes a look back on some of the most powerful and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning and...

HISTORY This Week

221 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places...

Now & Then

123 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Wednesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to ...

Presidential

62 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
The Washington Post's Presidential podcast explores how each former American president reached office, made decisions, handled crises and redefined the role of commander-in-chief. It was released l...

History Unplugged Podcast

885 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questi...

What Really Happened?

81 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
We live in an age where news comes at us fast, and from all angles. We see a headline that catches our attention, but often just skim the surface, before the next headline comes along. In Season 3,...

Our Fake History

237 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!

Legends of the Old West

337 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratings
Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, and Butch and Sundance. Lakota, Comanche and Apache. Wars, gunfights and robberies. This show covers the toughest lawmen, the wildest outlaws, and the deadliest towns — all...

GraveYard Tales

288 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
We tell the stories and history of haunted places, ghost encounters, cryptid encounters, the paranormal, preternatural, and every oddity imaginable. And we do it with a comedic twist and don't take...

BackStory

268 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities. There’s the h...

The Black Dahlia Serial Killers

123 episodes - Latest episode: about 18 hours ago - ★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Hollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history. In The Black Dahlia Serial Killers, host Tracy Pattin investigates the sen...