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1The Rest Is HistoryGoalhanger PodcastsTake a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook.

2Behind the BastardsiHeartThere’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D.

3True Crime with Kendall RaeMile Higher Media & Audioboom StudiosKendall Rae is a true-crime content creator on YouTube who has used her platform to spread awareness for victims and their families.

4Letters from an AmericanHeather Cox RichardsonHeather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

5"WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, CultureRudyard LynchWhatifAltHist is a podcast from Rudyard Lynch that looks to try to find the patterns in history and anthropology so as to predict the future and understand the dynamics that result in civilizations rising and falling.

61619The New York TimesIn August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia.

71945The National WWII MuseumThe National WWII Museum presents 1945, a six-part podcast series hosted by New York Times best-selling author Donald Miller and Playtone producer Kirk Saduski.

8500 Letters to NanaCarson & KatieA WWII Podcast...

960 Minutes: A Second LookCBS NewsAs the most successful broadcast in television history, 60 Minutes has made and marked history since its premiere in 1968.

10About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir PutinAudacy | PuckThe West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor.

11After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the ParanormalHistory HitThis is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal.

12Alex Andreou's PodysseyAlex AndreouAlex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia

13Almost InterestingCloud10Welcome to Almost Interesting, the podcast designed to be just interesting enough - but not too interesting, obviously.

14America: A HistoryLiam HeffernanThe number one American history podcast for anyone with an interest in the people and events that shaped the USA. Every week, Liam Heffernan is joined by the world's foremost experts, academics and broadcasters in the only podcast that connects US past, present and future...

15America's Crime LabiHeartPodcasts and KaleidoscopeWelcome to Othram aka "America's Crime Lab." Each week, we meet weary detectives and family members working an unsolved case that has wrecked a community and seemingly hit a dead end… until, in a last-ditch effort, the evidence is mailed to Othram.

16American CriminalAirshipThe true crime history podcast that takes you inside the minds of some of our most notorious felons and outlaws, exploring the dark side to the American dream.

17American FilthiHeartFrom famous founders to capitalist cooks, from sex scandals to the dirtiest blues song, AMERICAN FILTH dives into the filthier side of American history: uncovering people who society has largely excluded from the history books because they were too unconventional, provocative, seedy, dirty, trashy….

18AMERICAN GENOCIDEIllumiNativeAmidst an unprecedented federal investigation into hundreds of Native Boarding Schools and the 100,000+ children these institutions forcibly removed, one school has become the epicenter of controversy in America’s attempt to reckon with its dark history: Red Cloud Indian School.

19American History HitHistory HitJoin Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today. We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former colleagues of being communists, and uncover the dark history that lies beneath Central Park.   From pre-colonial America to independence, slavery to civil rights, the gold rush to the space race, join Don as he speaks to leading experts to delve into America’s past. New episodes every Monday and Thursday. Brought to you by History Hit, the award-winning podcast network and world’s best history channel on demand, featuring shows like Dan Snow’s History Hit, Not Just The Tudors and Betwixt the Sheets.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts.

20American History HotlineiHeartPodcastsBob Crawford searches for the best historians and experts to answer listener questions about American history — from the Revolutionary War to rock & roll feuds.

21American History TellersWondery The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race.

22American HomicideiHeartPodcasts and Glass PodcastsAmerican Homicide explores mysterious and iconic murder cases from all across America.

23American ScandalWondery Every scandal begins with a lie.

24American ShrapnelAlabama Media GroupThe Olympics explode on a July night in 1996.

25An Old Timey PodcastKristin Caruso and Norman CarusoHistory class just got hilariously inappropriate.  Kristin Caruso, co-host of the true crime comedy podcast, Let’s Go To Court (16M+ downloads), and Norman Caruso, creator of the Gaming Historian YouTube channel (1M+ subscribers), team up to deliver a history podcast that is well researched, wide-ranging, and deeply silly.  In other words, this is a podcast for intellectuals.

26Bag ManMSNBCIs it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember?

27BEEF with Bridget ToddNext Chapter PodcastsBEEF is an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast where Business Wars meets pop culture history.

28Beyond Mount RushmorePodcast Playground Beyond Mount Rushmore dives into the stories your history teacher definitely skipped.

29Big Ideas LabMission.orgYour exploration inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

30Big SugariHeartCome explore the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how sugar is grown, cultivated and sold.

31Bitter Blood: Murdoch v. MurdochAudible

32Bizarre HistoryAudible

33Black History, For RealWondery The first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List was a Black Panther.

34BlindspotThe HISTORY® Channel and WNYC StudiosHIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world.

35BlowbackBrendan James and Noah KulwinA podcast about the American Empire.

36British ScandalWondery In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal.British scandals change the course of history.

37BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy InvestigationMottafied Sound, LLC Featuring never-before-heard recordings of John Wayne Gacy (The Gacy Tapes) and new admissions from the detectives who investigated him, BURIED is a true-crime podcast that investigates the police investigation, re-examining the John Wayne Gacy case and the police work that uncovered a serial killer.BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation is Defense Diaries' remastered re-release of The Gacy Tapes season.

38Cautionary Tales with Tim HarfordPushkin IndustriesWe tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true.

39Chess Piece: The Elián González StoryMy Cultura and iHeartPodcastsAt the turn of the millennium, a five-year-old boy from Cuba found off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving became the most talked about child in America.

40City of the RailsiHeartWhen journalist Danelle Morton’s daughter skips town to hop trains, she follows her into the train yard, and across America.

41Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country MusicTyler Mahan CoeStep right up. Come on in.

42Collateral Damage from The InterceptThe InterceptCollateral Damage is an investigative podcast series examining the half-century-long war on drugs, its enduring ripple effects, and the devastating consequences of building a massive war machine aimed at the public itself.

43Computer FreaksInc. MagazineThis is the untold history of how the internet almost didn’t happen.

44Contempt of Court with Elie MystalThe Nation MagazineContempt of Court is an original podcast series from The Nation about how to reform the Supreme Court.

45Cover Up: The Anthrax ThreatSony Music EntertainmentIn the mid-1970s, a man burst onto the evangelical scene with a shocking tale: claiming to be a former witch involved in human sacrifices among elite circles.

46Crime CountdownSpotify StudiosWho’s the worst serial killer?

47Crowded Hours: The True Story of Alice Roosevelt and America's First Political DynastyAudible

48Curiosity Meets The PastDr. Smiti NathanCuriosity Meets The Past is a podcast for curious minds who love learning about the past.

49Dan Carlin Hardcore History ArchivesDan CarlinA premium RSS feed for William Howell: trey.howell@merrick.com.

50Dan Carlin´s Hardcore HistoryDan CarlinIn "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.