History Podcasts

Dolls of Our Lives

318 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months 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 ...

Wise About Texas

147 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
The Texas History Podcast

Amateur Traveler Travel Podcast

921 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 928 ratings
Since 2005 Amateur Traveler has been talking about a different destination every week. It covers destinations all of the world with an emphasis on culturally rich travel. Learn more about your worl...

This Day in Esoteric Political History

673 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
We’re living in unprecedented times. Maybe. In this show, Jody Avirgan (538, 30for30, TED) and historians Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt) and Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley) take one moment, b...

Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers

38 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 816 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...

Quantum Week

223 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 814 ratings
Quantum Week is a pop culture nostalgia show, where we leap into a random week of a random year and talk about its hit movie and song.

ArtCurious Podcast

234 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 791 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 ...

Christmas Past

479 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 746 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...

Beyond Contempt True Crime

103 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 694 ratings
A narrative based true crime podcast. I'll tell you stories that you've never heard before.

Damn Interesting

126 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 668 ratings
The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.

In Our Time: Science

287 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 644 ratings
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Blindspot

45 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 603 ratings
HIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world. In this series, we reveal untold stories from the defining years of the epidemic, and we’ll consider: How could some of the pain have been avoi...

Hazard Ground

356 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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 ...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast

188 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 569 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: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 560 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...

Twilight Histories

133 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 527 ratings
You have entered the Twilight Histories, an audio adventure that casts YOU as the hero. YOU are a time traveler. Each episode, YOU will explore a new world. Some are familiar. Others are totally e...

10 American Presidents Podcast

53 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 525 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...

Breaking Down Patriarchy

284 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 483 ratings
Breaking Down Patriarchy is a podcast for everyone! Learn about the creation of patriarchy and those who have challenged it as you listen to bookclub-style discussions of essential historical texts...

Warfare

554 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 480 ratings
From Napoleonic battles to Cold War confrontations, the Normandy landings to 9/11, this podcast opens up fascinating new perspectives on how wars have shaped and changed our modern world. Each wee...

Life Of Caesar

290 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 473 ratings
A long-form podcast about the lives of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and beyond.

Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine

19 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 460 ratings
Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner, Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine examines the ongoing war in Ukraine, the worst war in Europe since WWII, in interviews with de...

Footnoting History

307 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 456 ratings
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. For further reading suggestions, information...

Ancient Greece Declassified

60 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 453 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...

Into the Mix

38 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days 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 we've got four multi-part stories th...

Bible Mysteries

313 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 424 ratings
Did you ever wonder why the Bible is hard to understand? What if God wrote the Bible in such a way as to hide a deep secret from Satan and his angels? Bible Mysteries unlocks the secrets in the B...

Bad Gays

90 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 418 ratings
A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com

Bedside Rounds

86 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 413 ratings
Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine’s intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely ...

Anti-Social Studies

114 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 390 ratings
With a masters degree in history and years of experience explaining old things to teenagers, Emily Glankler is bringing her high school social studies classroom to the masses. Join her as she tells...

Geopolitics & Empire

589 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 383 ratings
Geopolitics & Empire

SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America

26 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 379 ratings
The third season of Sold Out examines the intersection of the climate and housing crises. Hosted by Erin Baldassari, the series tells the stories of families and communities throughout California, ...