History Podcasts
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
21 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61K ratingsIn "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...
Serial Killers
574 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 28.1K ratingsGet 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...
Myths and Legends
463 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22.8K ratingsJason Weiser and Carissa Weiser tell stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories...
American Scandal
365 episodes - Latest episode: about 7 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsEvery 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
310 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14.1K ratingsThe past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that...
Conspiracy Theories
521 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 11K ratingsThe 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
376 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9K ratingsThe 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...
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
991 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8K ratingsFrom the creator of the hit podcast Lore comes a new, bite-sized storytelling experience. Each twice-weekly episode features two short tales that take listeners on a guided tour of the unbelievabl...
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
28 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 7.8K ratingsInterviews, 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
Newt's World
737 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratingsJoin former House Speaker, professor, historian, and futurist Newt Gingrich as he shares his lifetime of knowledge and access to the world’s most interesting minds in a new series that covers all a...
Tides of History
305 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratingsEverywhere 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
463 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratingsLife 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...
In Our Time
501 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.7K ratingsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Once Upon a Crime
792 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 4.6K ratingsOnce 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...
History That Doesn't Suck
199 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.5K ratingsHTDS is a bi-weekly podcast, delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard-hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. To keep up with History That Doesn’t Suck news, check us...
Trace Evidence
261 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratingsTrace 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: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratingsIt 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: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThis 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...
Presidential
62 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsThe 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...
What Really Happened?
80 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratingsWe 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,...
Hillbilly Horror Stories Paranormal Podcast
1,359 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratingsHillbilly Horror Stories is a mostly paranormal show hosted by stand up comedian Jerry Paulley and his wife Tracy. They touch on all things eerie including true stories behind your favorite horror ...
Our Fake History
229 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsA 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
331 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWyatt 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...
BackStory
268 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratingsBackStory 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
121 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.9K ratingsHollywood 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...
GraveYard Tales
282 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsWe 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...
Moonrise
16 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.8K ratings“Truer, but also darker.” This is the real origin story behind America’s decision to go to the moon. The story we learn starts with Sputnik, then President Kennedy’s challenge, and ends with triump...
Those Conspiracy Guys
238 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.7K ratingsThose Conspiracy Guys is a comedy, history and True Crime podcast based in Ireland and deals with everything from the out-there conspiracy theories like aliens, time travel, and ancient civilisatio...
I Spy
44 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.7K ratingsSpies don’t talk—it’s the cardinal rule of the business. But on Foreign Policy’s podcast I Spy, we get them to open up. We hear from the operations people: the spies who steal secrets, kill adversa...
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