News History Podcasts

On the Media

743 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratings
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a sk...

Presidential

62 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
The 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...

BackStory

268 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
BackStory 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...

Uncommon Knowledge

211 episodes - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, schol...

Undeceptions with John Dickson

190 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 270 ratings
Every week on Undeceptions we’ll explore some aspect of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that is either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten. With the help of people who know what they’re...

Theme Park Pulse

347 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 100 ratings
On the beat of themed entertainment. Hosted by Christopher Beale.

Comic Book Historians

220 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts ...

Historic Voices: Global History and Culture

277 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratings
Historic Voices Podcast brings voices from the past that make history come alive through their personal accounts and public speeches. Some episodes bring the voices of political and military lead...

Cigar Nerds Podcast

207 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Cigar Nerds Podcast

Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast

67 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Let's get personal! Since the dawn of time, humans have been desperate for connection. Then we realized we could solicit strangers through the Sunday paper. You’ve heard of Craigslist personals, j...

Rainbow Valley

31 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Jo...

HuttCast

139 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Tune in to the HuttCast Podcast where we explore an expansive array of topics—from life lessons and business insights to the latest in automotive trends and current events. As a seasoned leader in...

Hikikomori

98 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Sit back and enjoy a weird and shocking story from Japan, both from recent and far history, as researched and told by Vincent.

Podding Through Time

32 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The best Historical Variety Show on the web! Get your monthly dose of historical knowledge injected directly into your brain. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/tYYcQV5YVB

Last Week 100 Years Ago

19 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The podcast where we bring you the hottest news from last week, 100 years ago. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for clippings of the articles and random thoughts at LastWeek100Pod.

It's Today!

1,559 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
A daily podcast celebrating Today!

Then and Now: Global History and Culture

487 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
"Then and Now" connects events from the past with today's news headlines. Current episodes are history topics from my global culture and history course. In 2006, the podcast started with students ...

Espresso Talk Today

266 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
We confront issues and their effects on Black people in the United States and around the world. From climate change to white supremacy, police violence to veganism, we face these highly charged top...

Ancient Egypt News - a Weekly Catch-Up

191 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago
A weekly round up of the latest Ancient Egypt news that made the headlines, brought to you by Ted Loukes and GnT Tours. Visit these websites for more on books by Ted Loukes or news of our latest t...

Unbridled Minds

80 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago
What's possible? What's implausible? Come join us at Unbridled Minds, Where we talk all things related to conspiracy theories and where all things are plausible. We discuss issues such as Alien Exi...

India Insight

75 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago
Informative conversations on Indian history, politics, spirituality, philosophy, news and everything in between including American topics.

Hadithi Afrika

55 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago
This platform will connect you with different shows broadcast on Zanj Radio and others exclusively. ...

History Written By The Losers

47 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago
Join us as we take a deep dive into history, but with a little change: from the viewpoint of the oppressed, the forgotten, and the lost. From times of war, to peace, to everything in between, come ...

Top Fold

30 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago
Welcome to Top Fold, a podcast about “All the news that would have been” with your host Luke Heffley. Here at Top Fold we explore monumental events that didn't make the top story only because -- th...