History Podcasts

Dolls of Our Lives

318 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
The series you loved, book by book. Join Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney as they explore the wild world of American Girl fandom. In each episode, Allison and Mary will dive into an American Girl ...

New England Legends Podcast

404 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 897 ratings
Twice each week, legend hunter, author, and historian Jeff Belanger and radio host Ray Auger explore the ghosts, monsters, aliens, folklore, history, roadside oddities, true crime, and legends of N...

Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers

38 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 804 ratings
We all know the stories: Bloody Mary, the Chupacabra, Candyman... These urban legends have been around for decades, sometimes centuries, and still haunt us today. But are they real? The Ghost Broth...

In Our Time: Philosophy

154 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 793 ratings
From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.

ArtCurious Podcast

230 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 783 ratings
Think art history is boring? Think again. It's weird, funny, mysterious, enthralling, and liberating. Join us as we cover the strangest stories in art. Is the Mona Lisa fake? Did Van Gogh actually ...

Key Battles of American History

252 episodes - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 776 ratings
War has played a key role in the history of the United States from the nation’s founding right down to the present. Wars made the U. S. independent, kept it together, increased its size, and estab...

Undiscovered

55 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 753 ratings
A podcast about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen.

Christmas Past

308 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 741 ratings
Behind every Christmas tradition is a story, often a forgotten one. Every year as we put up a tree and pour the eggnog, we’re continuing generations-old narratives, while being mostly unaware of t...

Historical Blindness

196 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 741 ratings
Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and ...

Florida Men on Florida Man

342 episodes - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 720 ratings
The Florida Men on Florida Man podcast features crazy but TRUE stories from the sunshine state. FMOFM goes past the insane headlines and focuses on Florida’s history. From the nation’s wealthiest m...

Beyond Contempt True Crime

103 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 694 ratings
A narrative based true crime podcast. I'll tell you stories that you've never heard before.

T.REX Talk

220 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 675 ratings
The official podcast of T.REX ARMS. Weekly thoughts and conversations between various team members discussing equipment, training, history, politics, and of course, the behind-the-scenes stuff reg...

Damn Interesting

126 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 665 ratings
The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.

Iroquois History and Legends

111 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 664 ratings
The Iroquois Confederacy. An Indigenous North American civilization with equal rights and representative government that left Europeans in bewilderment. Their influence affected the American free...

Great Moments in Weed History

153 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 607 ratings
Great Moments in Weed History delves deep into humanity's 10,000+ year relationship with cannabis (a.k.a. marijuana) to explore the humor, heart, and historical importance of the planet's most reve...

Black Diamonds

105 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 588 ratings
SiriusXM and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will present an exclusive new podcast series, Black Diamonds. Hosted by museum president and historian Bob Kendrick, the podcast will showcase the hi...

Hazard Ground

356 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 585 ratings
Servicemembers from across the military, sharing their accounts of combat and survival. Hosted by sports talk radio host and Army veteran, Mark Zinno, this podcast brings you firsthand accounts of ...

This American President

303 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 582 ratings
This American President delves into the lives and legacies of U.S. presidents through long form stories and interviews. It will challenge the way you look at American history. Hosted by Richard Lim...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast

188 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 559 ratings
A retelling of the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a way that’s more accessible to a Western audience. See 3kingdomspodcast.com for more.

Apocrypals

119 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 547 ratings
A podcast where two non-believers read through the Bible but try not to be jerks about it. Join comics writers Benito Cereno and Chris Sims as they journey through the Good Book from Acts to Zephan...

Working Class History

134 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 540 ratings
History isn't made by kings and politicians, it's made by all of us. This podcast is about how we, together, have fought for a better world. Become a paid subscriber, support our work and listen ad...

10 American Presidents Podcast

52 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 521 ratings
From Washington to Obama, 10 American Presidents a podcast narrated by guest hosts. The life and legacy of an American President. Each show is intercut with music and where possible archive news cl...

Heist Podcast

210 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 509 ratings
Miss the pod? Get our new Audio Book "Heist This Book" Out Now! http://glow.fm/heistthisbook HEEEEIIISST! Hello Heist Nation! I'm Simon and I'm Matt! Long time no heeeeeist! We got a little hanke...

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

214 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 506 ratings
Rating all the emperors of Rome in the history of the Roman Empire (sort of)

Queer as Fact

156 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 501 ratings
Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.

Black Cowboys

19 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 459 ratings
Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Desp...

Holy Ghost Stories

57 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 458 ratings
Bible stories told in all their dark, haunting fantasticness. You’ll dig it.

Into the Mix

35 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 447 ratings
Ben & Jerry’s is back with another season of Into the Mix, a podcast about joy and justice. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford and produced with Vox Creative, this season will bring you stories of struggle a...

Ancient Greece Declassified

60 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 446 ratings
The podcast that transports you to the ancient world and back, with some good conversation along the way. It's not just about ancient Greece. It's about a huge chunk of human history that the Greek...

Context with Brad Harris

31 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 440 ratings
What led to the rise of the modern world? How have we made so much progress, and what are its consequences? What are humanity's best ideas? Join award-winning historian Brad Harris as he engages th...