History Podcasts
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
15 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41.5K 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...
Lore
138 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34.9K ratingsLore is a bi-weekly podcast (as well as a TV show and book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages...
Bag Man
18 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24.6K 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...
Revolutions
275 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.9K ratingsA weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ???
Astonishing Legends
175 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.5K 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...
Haunted Places
153 episodes - Latest episode: about 24 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 5.9K ratingsYou’ve heard of haunted houses, haunted cemeteries, haunted islands...but do you know how a normal place can become a paranormal minefield? Every haunted place on earth has a frightening, real back...
On the Media
147 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K 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...
American Fiasco
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5.5K ratingsJoin host Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers for this story of the U.S. men’s soccer team that swaggered onto the international stage and set out to win the 1998 World Cup in France. When they arrived...
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
168 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K 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 unbelievable...
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
15 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratingsThe podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
140 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.7K 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 ...
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
8 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.5K 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
History on Fire
52 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.9K ratingsWhere history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli. For more, go to LuminaryPodcasts.com
Once Upon A Crime | True Crime
273 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsJoin me as I dive into some of the most fascinating and thought provoking true crime stories told one chapter at a time. Kidnappings, murders, mysterious disappearances, serial killers, celebrity c...
Felonious Florida
12 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsBeyond the beaches, the theme parks, the palm trees and the warm breezes lies the dark side of the Sunshine State. Wondery and the South Florida Sun Sentinel present a true-crime podcast th...
What Really Happened?
68 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 3K 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,...
BackStory
234 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.7K 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 hi...
Hillbilly Horror Stories
239 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K 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 ...
Presidential
46 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.4K 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...
Dirty Rats
15 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.3K 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 ...
Moonrise
13 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.3K 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...
Constitutional
19 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWith the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the heart of...
Young Charlie by Hollywood & Crime
14 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsHow did Charles Manson become an evil, cunning monster? In August 1969, the world is shocked by the savage murders of movie star Sharon Tate and four others at the sprawling Hollywood Hills...
The Cold War: What We Saw
6 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K 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...
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