New History Books Podcasts

Twice-told Tales

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
What makes a good life? People in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as concerned about living in an enriching and edifying way as we are now. Historian Leah Astbury, and French Literatur...

Favorite Librarian, the Podcast

63 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago
Name's Forrest.  I'm a licensed, QWOC Atlanta-based librarian, #blerd, and published poet. My love for reading fuels my passion to circulate Black and Queer History, and Literature. Celebrate rea...

Read and Think

17 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
I’ve learned in my career as an entrepreneur and investor that the more I read, the better I think, which leads to better decisions and better outcomes. On Read and Think I talk about the lessons I...

More Information Than You Perhaps Require

5 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
Public historian and amateur daydrinker walks you through areas of historical interest, from midcentury gay pulp fiction to ancient Roman stress dreams. Commission an episode on the topic of...

Meet The Marquis!

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
Join Jislaaik Rockadopolis and Lance (mostly on the production side) in a year-long exploration of the Marquis de Sade--including in-depth discussions of his words and deeds, as well as the the int...

Bifocals

47 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
A biweekly show about queer characters, concepts, and controversies in popular culture, brought to you by two board-certified bisexual buds! Put on your bifocals as Lizy (she/her) and Joseph (he/hi...

Between the Leaves

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
Between the Leaves, a poetry podcast hosted by Ellen van Neerven and Hermina Burns. In each episode, Ellen and Hermina illuminate poems written by women and the gender diverse, as well as their own...

Then & There - a vintage travel podcast

17 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel thro...

Beyond the Well

26 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
No subject too taboo, no stone left unturned. The search for knowledge will inevitably lead you Beyond the Well.

Down the Yellow Brick Pod

323 episodes - Latest episode: about 10 hours ago
Down the Yellow Brick Pod is a podcast preserving and peeling back the curtain on the wonderful world of Oz. Join good (trouble) witch co-hosts Emily Kay Shrader and Tara Tagliaferro over the rain...

War and Peace in just 7 years (WAPIN7)

218 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
The world's biggest and most ridiculous War and Peace podcast. British comedians Will and Steve do battle with the greatest book of all time.

34 Circe Salon -- The Parallax

97 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago
Parallax -- noun. (ˈpɛrəˌlæks) The apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object. A podcast that is an exploration from the ancient wo...

Podsothoth: A Lovecraft Book Club

73 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago
Podsothoth is a horror and comedy podcast dedicated to the works (and foibles) of H.P. Lovecraft, hosted by recovering goth and internet D-lister celebrity, Tod Beardsley. Every Lovecraft story wi...

My Cousin Jane

41 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago
My Cousin Jane is a podcast produced by Jane Austen's cousin—well, her 8th cousin, 6 times removed—Lee Falin, about the life and works of Jane Austen. Rather than explore the "literary themes and e...

Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast

36 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
A chapter by chapter breakdown of the greatest, weirdest American novel, "Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale." Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.

Time-Turner Collective

19 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
Hi! We're Laura and Amelia, the hosts of Time-Turner Collective, two Literature students and Harry Potter Nerds who are reading one book per decade from 1900-2019 and talking about it!! From T. S....

Reverie True Crime

535 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 279 ratings
Reverie means to daydream but sometimes when we zone out, our anxiety and intrusive thoughts can creep in. We might start to think about our anxieties and worst fears. Sometimes we get caught up in...

NBS Bibliotalk: The Coin Book Lover Podcast

17 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Love coins? Or books? Tune in to hear from a different bibliophile each episode.

World Art Now

53 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago
Exploring the history of the world through the material culture of its people. Our website: www.worldartnow.com in association with: www.michaelbackmanltd.com

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Once regarded as a cult book in the 1960s by the Flower Power generation, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse remains even today a simple and fresh tale of a man's spiritual quest. Penned by a deeply spirit...

Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William R. Lighton

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark – In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where th...

Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, ...

Book Nookie

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The podcast where we go under the covers to have intimate conversations about our favorite books. Hosted by Brian Colella.

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A social satire, Main Street became a best-seller soon after its publication, fascinating readers with its biting humor and realistic portrayal of small-town communities. Published in 1920, the nov...

Where the West Commences podcast

37 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Western authors and brothers Larry and Tom Richardson gather around the kitchen table to compare their nostalgic love for the rich legacy of the American West and the profound ways it shaped our cu...

History, Books & Wine Podcast

133 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Raising a glass to books and the past! Welcome to History, Books and wine where we chat about books and fun historical tidbits all while raising a glass of vino! 

Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

53 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
One of the most prolific and multi-talented geniuses the world has ever seen, Thomas Alva Edison's life is indeed an inspiration for each new generation. Today we live in a world that would not hav...

Adam Bede by George Eliot

56 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A young carpenter falls in love with the village beauty. She, however, has set her sights on a dashing army captain who's the son of the wealthy local squire. Meanwhile, a beautiful and virtuous yo...

Roughing It by Mark Twain

82 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
The semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twain’s, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying his brother on wh...

Island Idylls

36 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Island Idylls riffs on books and life with Barry Menikoff. Author of Stone Mother, Brooklyn born and bred, retired Hawaii university professor, international scholar. Evangelical pastor Aaron Menik...