History Podcasts

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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

21 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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...
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Serial Killers

574 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day 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...
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Slow Burn

237 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23.5K ratings
Slow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present. Through archival tape and first-person interviews, the series uncovers the sur...
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Myths and Legends

463 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22.8K ratings
Jason 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...
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American Scandal

365 episodes - Latest episode: about 7 hours 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...
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Throughline

310 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14.1K ratings
The 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...
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Conspiracy Theories

521 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...
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Astonishing Legends

376 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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...
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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

991 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8K ratings
From 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...
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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

28 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
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Newt's World

737 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratings
Join 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...
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Tides of History

305 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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 ...
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Unexplained Mysteries

463 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...
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In Our Time

501 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.7K ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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Once Upon a Crime

792 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours 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...
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History That Doesn't Suck

199 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.5K ratings
HTDS 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...
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Trace Evidence

261 episodes - Latest episode: 28 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...
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It Was Said

49 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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...
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HISTORY This Week

221 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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...
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Presidential

62 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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...
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What Really Happened?

80 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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,...
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Hillbilly Horror Stories Paranormal Podcast

1,359 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
Hillbilly 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 ...
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Our Fake History

229 episodes - Latest episode: 14 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!
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Legends of the Old West

331 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days 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...
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BackStory

268 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...
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The Black Dahlia Serial Killers

121 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days 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...
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GraveYard Tales

282 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K 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...
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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...
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Those Conspiracy Guys

238 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.7K ratings
Those 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...
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I Spy

44 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.7K ratings
Spies 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...