History Society & Culture Podcasts

Buried Truths

80 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratings
“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to under...

Shmanners

402 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Join husband Travis McElroy and wife Teresa McElroy every Friday and they'll improve your etiquette week by week! Perplexed by thank you notes? Baffled by black tie? Dismayed by dinner parties? Wor...

Trashy Divorces

422 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
A Good Podcast About Bad Relationships. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Alicia and Stacie take you on a comedic ride through stories of marital misconduct and love gone wrong, blending biography, pop c...

9/12

20 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift ...

New England Legends Podcast

405 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours 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...

Unpacking Israeli History

93 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 671 ratings
Go behind the scenes of Israeli history with self-confessed history nerd Noam Weissman. Each week, he offers a fresh perspective on some of the most controversial and interesting events in the coun...

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.

How to Take Over the World

93 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 647 ratings
Anyone who has achieved greatness has, in part, patterned themselves after those who came before. Napoleon learned from Charlemagne, Charlemagne learned from Caesar, and Caesar learned from Alexand...

This American President

303 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days 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...

What's Ray Saying?

79 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 544 ratings
Storyteller Ray Christian shares personal stories as a sixty-something combat veteran, historian, and goat-wrangling father of six living in the rural mountains of Appalachia, all told thro...

10ish Podcast

519 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 495 ratings
Nick Emel and guests deliver a mix of entertainment, education, and satirical banter as they cover fact-based Top 10ish Lists in history, true crime, food, pop culture, and more. One host is preppe...

Burnt Toast

225 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 429 ratings
Food intersects with our lives in more ways than we think. Food52's Burnt Toast podcast chases those stories to give listeners the perfect pieces of snackable dinner-party fodder—all inside of a co...

Feminist Current

91 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 412 ratings
Canada's leading feminist website.

Amazing War Stories

17 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 330 ratings
In this 3D audio series, ex-British Paratrooper and history fanatic Bruce Crompton narrates incredible tales of bravery from conflicts throughout the ages to support military institutions. All arou...

Cultivating Place

432 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 314 ratings
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the...

L.A. Meekly: A Los Angeles History Podcast

189 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 213 ratings
L.A. Meekly is a monthly comedy podcast about Los Angeles history put out by comedians Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran that battles the idea that LA has no history by delving in the weird, unbeliev...

Groundings

53 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 211 ratings
Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The ...

Self Evident: Asian America's Stories

66 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
We tell Asian America's stories to go beyond being seen. As people of all backgrounds reckon with complex legacies of race, power, culture, and identity and ask themselves, “Where do I stand?” Sel...

Good Nightmare

77 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratings
A podcast about all things strange and unusual. Historical true crimes, paranormal and dark fairy tale origins. Hosted by Sarah.

Ottoman History Podcast

313 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
Interviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ for hundreds more archived episodes.

Coffee With My Ma

27 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 193 ratings
My radical activist mother Kahentinetha Horn tells me stories of her very long adventurous life, always with the sense of humour that carried herthrough.

Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast

131 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 164 ratings
Welcome to Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast, a comprehensive look at the ship, its crew + passengers, the art it has inspired, and the cultural history of its legacy (which is, of course, absolutely...

Allegedly Astrology

113 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 161 ratings
True crime, scandals, and celebrity gossip meet astrology when three friends discuss the transits that have influenced some of the biggest moments throughout history and pop culture. In this weekl...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

1,044 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors a1512nd Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers a...

Demystifying Gay Porn

277 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Everyone in the connected world knows what porn is and has seen it. Join I. Que Grande, an award-winning producer in the Gay Adult Entertainment Industry as he humanizes porn stars, deconstructs se...

Ministry of Ideas

104 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 146 ratings
A podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School. Learn more at ministryofideas.org

BS with Brian Simpson

155 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 135 ratings
Stand-up comedian Brian Simpson talks some bullshit about whatever he wants, with whomever he wants. Email the show at [email protected] and follow Brian at @BScomedian Hosted on Aca...

13 O'Clock

1,709 episodes - Latest episode: about 16 hours ago - ★★★★ - 134 ratings
The Hour of Horror, Haunts & Hilarity

Western Civ

451 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 129 ratings
A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever ha...

My Dark Path

78 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
My Dark Path explores the fringes of history, science, and the paranormal. In every episode, creator and host MF Thomas illuminates a topic taken from the dark corners of our world. Combining his...