History Podcasts

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

21 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61K ratings
In "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 History Tellers

444 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratings
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know ...

Throughline

317 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 14.1K ratings
The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that...

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

49 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
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Tides of History

313 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it ...

Felonious Florida

45 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Beyond 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...

Trace Evidence

263 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Trace 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: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
It 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...

Now & Then

123 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
How 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: 5 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...

Crimes of the Centuries

201 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each episode ...

What Really Happened?

81 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
We 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

268 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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...

The Black Dahlia Serial Killers

121 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Hollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history. In The Black Dahlia Serial Killers, host Tracy Pattin investigates the sen...

Moonrise

16 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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...

Constitutional

23 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
With 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...

Not Another True Crime Podcast

338 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
On 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 ...

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

140 episodes - Latest episode: about 9 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times,...

Young Charlie by Hollywood & Crime

71 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.3K ratings
How 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

55 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
A 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.

FBI Retired Case File Review

370 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Have you ever thought how cool it would be to eavesdrop on the FBI? On FBI Retired Case File Review, host Jerri Williams, a retired agent herself, is on a mission to show you who the FBI is and wha...

Edith!

17 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Rosamund Pike stars as Edith Wilson in "Edith!" a scripted comedy podcast exploring the untold true-ish story of America's secret First Female President. After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a m...

Useless Information Podcast

311 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Podcasting since 2008! - It really is all true! Quirky, bizarre, and unusual stories from the Flip Side of History.

In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson

11 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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...

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

592 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
This weekly podcast provides an informal and informative look at church history. Join us each week as we take a brief break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look...

Power: Don King

88 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
In 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 ...

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

162 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.

Reflections of History

283 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
From 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...

One Year

57 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
The 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...

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

652 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates.  "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -C...