New American History Podcasts

Root of the Boot

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Root of the Boot is a deep dive into country music history with a twist. Host and Country Singer uses his unique personality and humor to tell of moments, songs, and people that helped build Ameri...

New Angle: Voice

16 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 151 ratings
Beverly Willis is adding her voice to a new podcast featuring discussions about the lives and careers of female pioneers of American Architecture. Going beyond the scholarship of the award-winning ...

Innovative History

23 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Welcome to Innovative History, a podcast that explores new directions in historical research and storytelling. Innovative History is hosted by Fulton Bryant-Anderson and Mike Halvorson, two histori...

Murder, Mischief & Mayhem!

20 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Murder, Mischief & Mayhem! is an anthology of America’s heritage of scandal and murder. From the annals of American criminal history come sensational cases that captured and held the public’s imagi...

King of the World

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
A Pakistani American Muslim teenager comes of age post-9/11 and, twenty years later, tries to figure out what the hell happened to him and to us. Hosted by Shahjehan Khan, King of the World is his...

Whiskey Lore®: The Interviews

168 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Join Best Selling Author Drew Hannush as he talks with the founders, distillers, authors, historians, and brand ambassadors that lead us to a greater understanding of the whiskies we love - and the...

Foiled

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
From Julius Caesar to the Kennedys, successful assassinations have played a significant role in the course of human civilization. This show isn't about those. Instead, we're looking at failed assas...

Echoes From the Canyon

2 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Echoes from the Canyon brings to life the legends, lore, and human history of Grand Canyon via tall tales, poetry, music, and cultural narrative. Through modern methods, we continue the traditional...

Zero Hour: A History of 9/11

12 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 99 ratings
A narrative nonfiction podcast chronicling the people and events leading up to the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Native Circles

57 episodes - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
This podcast features Native American and Indigenous voices, stories, and experiences for everyone to learn, not only in North America but also throughout the world. The founders of Native Circles...

Pod Save our History

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Pod Save our History is a public history podcast about the nexus between American legal history and African American history hosted by Jonathan Di Carlo. Episodes focus on the stories behind our hi...

Anonymous American Podcast

1 episode - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Anonymous American Podcast will speak on values, morals, attitudes, and beliefs that are considered "old school" in today's society with the hopes of being able to make a difference in the world.

We Interrupt This Broadcast

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 260 ratings
From six-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner, and based on his groundbreaking multimedia book, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,” comes a 12-episode, audio docu-series hosted by b...

Hearts in Taiwan

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
As kids of immigrants from Taiwan, our Asian identity started with beef noodle soup and ended with Chinese school. Now that we’re adults, we’ve found that we still have a lot to learn about Taiwan’...

American Sport

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
Americans love sports. We are fanatics who dress in team colors, root, root, root for the home team, and live and die with the success and failure of our favorite athlete. But if we take the time t...

American Sport

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Americans love sports. We are fanatics who dress in team colors, root, root, root for the home team, and live and die with the success and failure of our favorite athlete. But if we take the time t...

American Political History

122 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
My goal is to give you American political history from 1600 to the present. With the prospective of the people and politics of that time. So that we can understand their achievements, gain wisdom f...

Tangled Angle

76 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
This is Janis Kristiansen, news junkie, and fan of politics, government, & American history. In this podcast I will be discussing the tangled angles of conservative American values given to us by t...

Lantern Lessons

15 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Lantern Lessons with David Edmunds is an informal lecture series about the American Revolution, and the corresponding characters associated with that struggle. Eavesdrop on the Food Nanny's brothe...

BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History

152 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago
Meet BlackFacts.com, the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia - Delivering Black History, Culture, Vides and News to our followers. This podcast series provides your daily Black Fa...

Killer History

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Killer History is a weekly lesson about all things death, destruction and sadness followed by a Killer HERstory. Join us Wednesdays starting February 17th for the topics you never learned in school...

This is Not a History Lecture

251 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Welcome to a refreshingly casual take on history podcasts. Join Kat and Kaleigh as they share their favorite stories from history - the odd, the funny, the forgotten, and the often misunderstood. B...

Executive Decision

22 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Executive Decision reviews the most significant presidential decisions in American history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making.

Faith and Liberty Rediscovered

8 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
In each episode, we investigate the people behind historically significant events in American history while also exploring the direct connection between faith and liberty in America from its foundi...

Interstate Odyssey

11 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
History and legends of America's strangest, coolest, and spookiest Roadside Attractions, tourist traps and local museums.

John Brown Today

47 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
John Brown Today is a podcast devoted to historical and contemporary themes relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), the controversial antislavery and antiracist freedom fighter. John Br...

Lessons From History

4 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago
Throughout history, opportunities come and go. A decision here, a decision there, and the future of a person or country is changed. In our podcast, these decisions will be studied and consider as t...

Historically Speaking Podcast

51 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Uncommon history with an unconventional pair. Join married hosts Rebecca Robbins (a Broadway actress) and Kim Kimmel (her college history instructor) as they delve into topics that run the historic...

Pandemic on the Prairie

13 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
A podcast about the intersection of public health, cultural history, and war in Kansas. School closures, mask mandates, infection waves, front line workers, debates over the disease’s origin, dispa...

OUT HERE

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
OUT HERE is a folklore series determined to bring America together. It's a love letter to people whose voices deserve to be heard.