History Podcasts
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
22 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 61.3K 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...
Casefile True Crime
421 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31.7K ratingsFact is scarier than fiction. Subscribe to Casefile Premium to receive ad-free episodes released one week early, along with access to bonus Q&A’s, our exclusive show ‘Behind the Files’, and more.
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
49 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratingsStep right up. Come on in.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
29 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K 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
Unexplained Mysteries
464 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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
1,090 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratingsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Trace Evidence
265 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3.9K 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: 9 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: 11 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 ...
History Unplugged Podcast
904 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsFor history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questi...
Now & Then
123 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsHow can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Wednesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to ...
Presidential
62 episodes - Latest episode: 8 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?
81 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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,...
American Elections: Wicked Game
86 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K 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 screamed, fact...
BackStory
268 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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...
Moonrise
16 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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...
I Spy
49 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 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...
Constitutional
23 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K 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...
Unresolved
396 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsEvery day, stories unfold that have no resolution. Unresolved is an immersive look at those stories, as host Micheal Whelan tries to determine why these stories - unsolved crimes and other unexplai...
Not Another True Crime Podcast
338 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsOn Betches Media's Not Another True Crime Podcast, hosts Danny Murphy and Sara Levine are your partners in wine, crime, and time as they recap the buzziest true crime documentaries and travel back ...
Young Charlie by Hollywood & Crime
72 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.3K 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...
FRAMED: An Investigative Story
56 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsA true crime podcast that seeks to go beyond the narrative and discover the truth. Both sides have facts, which picture comes into focus depends on how those facts are Framed.
White Horse Inn
417 episodes - Latest episode: about 18 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsDo all paths lead to God? Is the Bible history or mythology? Are we saved by grace or good works? Featuring conversations with Christians from a variety traditions, this program is designed to give...
British Scandal
205 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsIn a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthro...
Long Shadow
29 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsThe April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School hurtled the United States into an era of mass shootings. Now, a quarter century later, the horrors of that day have become an almost regular...
In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson
11 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings"In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson" presents a surprising and original portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, told in the former first lady's own words -- from over 123 hours of her White House audio diari...
Power: Don King
89 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsIn a sport famed for money and excess, what does it take to get to the top...and stay there? Rising from a life of hardship and crime, Don King became the most successful boxing promoter the sport ...
Emperors of Rome
244 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.” - Tacitus. A podcast series looking at the rulers of the ancient Roman empire, by Dr Rhiannon Evans and Matt Smith.
Reflections of History
283 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFrom the team behind the Webby Award-winning Best Podcast Series It Was Said and the acclaimed podcast Hope,Through History, comes Reflections of History, a series that guides listeners through cri...
Slate Presents: One Year
74 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moment...
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