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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
16 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 45.7K 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...
Bag Man
22 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24.9K ratingsIs it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals i...
Serial Killers
203 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratingsEvery Monday and Thursday, Serial Killers takes a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mind, methods and madness of the most notorious serial killers with the ...
Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
22 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17.2K ratingsMo Rocca has always loved obituaries. In season 1 of Mobituaries he introduces listeners to the people who have long intrigued him—from the 20th century’s greatest entertainer … to the Civil...
Revolutions
286 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratingsA weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ???
Astonishing Legends
200 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7.1K ratingsScott and Forrest have been called the 'Click and Clack of esoterica' by their listeners. Their mission is to take a look at legendary strange and unusual events from throughout history and intervi...
On the Media
204 episodes - Latest episode: about 20 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 6.5K ratingsThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield examine threats to free speech and government transp...
Unobscured
33 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.4K ratingsHistory is full of stories we think we know. They are old and dark, but time has robbed us of perspective and clarity. They've become obscured and misunderstood. Which is why this series exists: to...
The Cold War: What We Saw
20 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.3K ratingsNovember 9, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down, freeing East Germany from communism, and marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. But w...
Female Criminals
191 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratingsThe true crime podcast where women aren’t just the victims. Every week, we examine the psychology, motivations, and atrocities of female felons. New episodes come out every Wednesday. Female Crimin...
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
173 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.2K ratingsThe people behind The Intercept’s fearless reporting and incisive commentary—Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, Betsy Reed and others—discuss the crucial issues of our time: national security, civil ...
Unexplained Mysteries
161 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.3K ratings“We don’t know.” answers too many questions. But in this podcast, we don’t take “we don’t know” for an answer. Every Thursday, Unexplained Mysteries investigates the greatest mysteries of history a...
Tides of History
94 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 4.3K 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 ...
History on Fire
53 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.2K ratingsWhere history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli. For more, go to LuminaryPodcasts.com
In Our Time
331 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
What Really Happened?
75 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K 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,...
The Black Dahlia Serial Killers
71 episodes - Latest episode: 12 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...
BackStory
266 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K 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...
Presidential
48 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.7K 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...
Moonrise
13 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.5K 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...
Dirty Rats
15 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsDirty Rats is the true story of two of Boston's most powerful brothers - one a gangster, the other a politician - as they rose from poverty in a public-housing project to the pinnacles of power in ...
Scattered
8 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsChris Garcia’s dad had one dying wish: That his family scatter his ashes off the coast of Cuba. Chris’s mom? She doesn’t give a crap about dying wishes. She’s vowed to never go back to Cuba again. ...
Those Conspiracy Guys
182 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2K ratingsThose Conspiracy Guys is an Irish comedy podcast where we discuss all types and genres of conspiracy theories, paranormal happenings and true crime from Atlantean myths to Zapruder films; from ghos...
Cautionary Tales
19 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsWe tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Ti...
Espionage
71 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsNot all spies look like James Bond and Ethan Hunt. Most of them look like ordinary people, which makes them all the more dangerous... So what does it really take to be a spy? Every week, we cover a...
American Elections: Wicked Game
62 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsOn February 10th, 1796, Vice President John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, lamenting the state of discourse in the country. The election was nearing—and becoming heated. Newspapers scream...
1865
59 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsApril 15, 1865. President Lincoln is dead and the country in turmoil. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton takes control, determined to bring the assassin to justice—but the hunt for John Wilkes...
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