American history History Podcasts

Zero Hour: A History of 9/11

12 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 99 ratings
A narrative nonfiction podcast chronicling the people and events leading up to the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Lantern Lessons

15 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Lantern Lessons with David Edmunds is an informal lecture series about the American Revolution, and the corresponding characters associated with that struggle. Eavesdrop on the Food Nanny's brothe...

Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast

157 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
A podcast about the history, preservation, and culture of American cemeteries hosted by Liz Clappin

From Boomers to Millennials: A Modern US History Podcast

40 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
A modern U.S. history podcast about the events that spanned the Baby Boomer generation’s lifespan & that are still relevant to people today, especially to Millennials. Unlike some history podcasts,...

This is Not a History Lecture

251 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Welcome to a refreshingly casual take on history podcasts. Join Kat and Kaleigh as they share their favorite stories from history - the odd, the funny, the forgotten, and the often misunderstood. B...

Innovative History

23 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Welcome to Innovative History, a podcast that explores new directions in historical research and storytelling. Innovative History is hosted by Fulton Bryant-Anderson and Mike Halvorson, two histori...

Armchair Historians

168 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago
What's your favorite history? Each interview on this podcast begins with this one question. Our guests are people who like history and get really excited about a particular time, place or person fr...

Gadfly

159 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago
Hosts Dusty Wilson and Oona O'Leary meet up fortnightly to chat about third parties, fringe candidates, and generally weird American electoral history. 

That Wasn't In My Textbook

71 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago
That Wasn't In My Textbook is our bi-weekly podcast that helps us uncover the things we always wished we learned from that boring, bulky textbook. Tune in to the history class you never knew you AL...

Lessons From History

4 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
Throughout history, opportunities come and go. A decision here, a decision there, and the future of a person or country is changed. In our podcast, these decisions will be studied and consider as t...