History Podcasts
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
15 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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...
American Fiasco
14 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years 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...
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
15 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratingsThe podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.
History on Fire
52 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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
Felonious Florida
12 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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?
69 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months 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,...
Dirty Rats
15 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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: 5 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: 9 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...
Scattered
8 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K 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. ...
FRAMED: An Investigative Story
11 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsAn unsolved crime has divided a community for more than a decade. This season on Framed we will go beyond the narratives and attempt to answer the question of what happened one fateful nigh...
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
95 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsJohn Dickerson of Slate’s Political Gabfest revisits a moment from the American carnival of politics. Hear about the grand speeches, emergency strategies, baby kissing, and backstabbing that make e...
Cautionary Tales
11 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K 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...
The Thread
42 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsExplore history’s interlocking lives and events. Turn back the clock, one story at a time. Discover how various strands are woven together to create a historic figure, a big idea or an unth...
No Man's Land by The Wing
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 933 ratingsNo Man’s Land is a podcast about women who were too bad for your textbooks. It's hosted by Alexis Coe, the in-house historian for The Wing, a network of work and community spaces for women.
Giants of History
89 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 752 ratingsHere at Giants of History, we produce a weekly biographical podcast that explores history’s most fascinating figures from cradle to grave. In each series, we strive to highlight the best stories a...
12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of The Byzantine Empire
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 747 ratingsThis lecture series by Lars Brownworth covers the history of the Byzantine Empire through the study of 12 of its greatest rulers.
Dead Man Talking™
17 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsAngel Resendiz aka The Railroad Killer criss-crossed the US by freight train in the 80s and 90s, choosing his victims at random, before he was executed by the State of Texas in 2006. Before his dea...
American Military History Podcast
154 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 738 ratingsJoin amateur military historian podcaster Justin Johnson as he covers the military history of America in the American Military History Podcast. Covering America’s Military History from the Revoluti...
Strange Matters Podcast
100 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 701 ratingsDiscussing the Bizarre, Mysterious, & Unexplained
Viking Age Podcast
70 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 577 ratingsSharing the History of The Viking Age, one podcast at a time. We are covering the History of Scandinavia during the Viking Age. We're exploring Raiding, Trading and Settlement of Scandinavians abr...
Norman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth
20 episodes - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 555 ratingsLars Brownworth, author of "Lost to the West" and creator of the "12 Byzantine Rulers" podcast presents "Norman Centuries", a podcast on the Normans. While popular Norman history focuses on the reg...
Odd Ball
6 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 507 ratingsOdd Ball is a story about a UFO investigation, a mansion in the woods and how one shiny object sent a Jacksonville, Florida family into hiding. Each week host Lindsey Kilbride dives deeper into the...
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