American history podcasts

51Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro ChildreniHeartIn 1968, police arrested five Black girls dressed in oversized military fatigues in Montgomery.

52Who Killed JFK?iHeartWho Killed JFK?

53WilderiHeartPodcastsJack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids.

54Executive DysfunctionWhat if the biggest stories in American history weren't ancient history at all?

55First AmericaRebecca NagleNative people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don’t know what happened.

56Founding Fathers: An American Dream250 years ago, the United States of America was born.

57Hollywood ExilesBBCHost Oona Chaplin guides listeners through the period known as the Red Scare - an ideological battle that implicated Hollywood’s biggest stars, including her grandfather, Charlie.

58In Pursuit with Colleen Shogan We call it the American experiment, and over the last 250 years, we've learned a lot about what's worked.....and what hasn't.

59Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished.

60The American WestMeatEaterAuthor Bryan Burrough exhumes the gritty history of Old West gunfighters.

61The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey RosenThe Blessings of Liberty is a weekly podcast hosted by Jeffrey Rosen — CEO Emeritus of the National Constitution Center, professor of law at George Washington University Law School, and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.Each episode brings together leading liberal and conservative authors, historians, legal scholars, judges, journalists, and public intellectuals for thoughtful conversations about the constitutional and historical questions at the center of American life.