History Podcasts

Maintenance Phase

86 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14.7K ratings
Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

29 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
Interviews, musings and extra material from the makers of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. If it did not fit in the HH feed it's probably here

American Elections: Wicked Game

86 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratings
On February 10th, 1796, Vice President John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, lamenting the state of discourse in the country. The election was nearing—and becoming heated. Newspapers screamed, fact...

Camp Monsters

65 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
These are the stories of impossible encounters with impossible creatures in the wildest corners of North America. We’ll travel the country, sit around campfires and talk about that thing that ran ...

Buried Truths

80 episodes - Latest episode: 12 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...

Sidedoor

192 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
More than 154 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults. But where the public’s view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeeper...

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

1,026 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
The logic of personal, philosophical and political freedom

Emperors of Rome

244 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.” - Tacitus. A podcast series looking at the rulers of the ancient Roman empire, by Dr Rhiannon Evans and Matt Smith.

In Godfrey We Trust

457 episodes - Latest episode: about 8 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Legendary Comedian Godfrey is LIVE from New York, and joins some of his best friends in comedy, Hip-Hop and Hollywood to talk current events, pop culture, race issues, movies, music, TV and...

Wise About Texas

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

Unpacking Israeli History

108 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 830 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...

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.

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.

6:05 Superpodcast

74 episodes - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 643 ratings
A podcast about classic pro wrestling hosted by The Great Brian Last

Baseball by the Book

216 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 628 ratings
A veteran baseball journalist interviews today's best baseball authors about their books.

CorbettReport.com - Feature Interviews

879 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 552 ratings
CorbettReport.com Feature Interviews presents guests from around the world on headline news and current events from a fiercely independent perspective. Issues covered include 9/11 and false flag te...

Feminist Current

91 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 414 ratings
Canada's leading feminist website.

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 ...

Origin Stories

86 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 412 ratings
Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.

Variant: The Podcast

153 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 347 ratings
Geek fandom is a vast and constantly growing space, and Variant covers nearly all of it. From the perspective of hosts Arris Quinones and Tim Connolly, this weekly Podcast talks Comics, Movies, TV,...

Let's Find Out

124 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 344 ratings
Let's Find Out ASMR is here to help you nod off to something calm and interesting. Science, Philosophy, History, Maths... or personally interesting themes in each episode. ASMR just means content ...

Islamic History Podcast

255 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 321 ratings
We often overlook Islamic history as a learning tool. The history of Islam is not only important for Muslims, but important for everyone. Islam and the people who call themselves Muslims have made ...

Medieval Archives

102 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 313 ratings
The Medieval Archives podcast transports you back to an age of heroic kings, gallant knights and pious bishops. Separate fact from fiction and find out how the men and women of the middle ages real...

Tudor, I Hardly Know Her

113 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 309 ratings
A comedy podcast about the Tudors and 1500s shenanigans. It's educational, we swear. But mostly funny. Hosted by Emily Simpson and Garrett Kaser. Produced by Jeffrey Simpson.

Wonders of the World

166 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
In this podcast, we'll visit 200 Wonders of the World, from the Pyramids to the Great Barrier Reef, to tell the story of our people, our civilization, and our planet. My name is Caroline Vahrenkam...

Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast

92 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 292 ratings
An unholy amalgam of politics, historical anecdotes, cocktail recipes, performances by talented people, and interviews with people who are doing interesting things with their lives.

Reverie True Crime

535 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 279 ratings
Reverie means to daydream but sometimes when we zone out, our anxiety and intrusive thoughts can creep in. We might start to think about our anxieties and worst fears. Sometimes we get caught up in...

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...

SPYCRAFT 101

236 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 269 ratings
Welcome to your clandestine classroom.

Missing Witches

298 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 246 ratings
Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.