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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.

3The Team HouseDavid Parke and Jack MurphyThe Team House is a long-form, fiercely apolitical national security podcast hosted by Jack Murphy, featuring special operations veterans, intelligence professionals, frontline reporters, and guests who have never spoken publicly before.

4American ScandalWondery Every scandal begins with a lie.

5Letters from an AmericanHeather Cox RichardsonHeather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

6ExpansePiia Wirsu and Sinead ManganSeason 6 Expanse: The Nannup Four with Dominique Bayens In 2007 four people disappeared from a blue farmhouse on the outskirts of the Western Australian town of Nannup, leaving behind the scatterings of a life, a note pinned to the door and a question: was the disappearance a choice… or murder?

7The AncientsTristan HughesA podcast for all ancient history fans!

8"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.

91619The New York TimesIn August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia.

101945The 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.

11500 Letters to NanaCarson & KatieA WWII Podcast...

1260 Minutes: A Second LookCBS NewsAs the most successful broadcast in television history, 60 Minutes has made and marked history since its premiere in 1968.

13About 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.

14After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the ParanormalHistory HitThis is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal.

15Alex Andreou's PodysseyAlex AndreouAlex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia

16Almost InterestingCloud10Welcome to Almost Interesting, the podcast designed to be just interesting enough - but not too interesting, obviously.

17America: A HistoryLiam HeffernanThis is your deep‑dive guide to how the United States became what it is today - politically, culturally, and socially.

18America'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.

19American 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.

20American 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….

21AMERICAN 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.

22American 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.

23American 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.

24American History TellersWondery The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race.

25American HomicideiHeartPodcasts and Glass PodcastsAmerican Homicide explores mysterious and iconic murder cases from all across America.

26American ShrapnelAlabama Media GroupThe Olympics explode on a July night in 1996.

27An 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.

28Bag ManMSNBCIs it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember?

29BEEF with Bridget ToddNext Chapter PodcastsBEEF is an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast where Business Wars meets pop culture history.

30Beyond Mount RushmorePodcast Playground Beyond Mount Rushmore dives into the stories your history teacher definitely skipped.

31Big Ideas LabMission.orgYour exploration inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

32Big SugariHeartIn 1969, a group of Morehouse College students held the Board of Trustees hostage for two days.

33Bitter Blood: Murdoch v. MurdochAudible

34Bizarre HistoryAudible

35Black History, For RealWondery The first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List was a Black Panther.

36BlindspotThe HISTORY® Channel and WNYC StudiosHIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world.

37BlowbackBrendan James and Noah KulwinA podcast about the American Empire.

38British 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.

39BURIED: 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.

40Business HistoryPushkin IndustriesIt’s the history of business.

41Cautionary 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.

42Chess 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.

43City of the RailsiHeartWhen journalist Danelle Morton’s daughter skips town to hop trains, she follows her into the train yard, and across America.

44Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country MusicTyler Mahan CoeStep right up. Come on in.

45Collateral 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.

46Computer FreaksInc. MagazineThis is the untold history of how the internet almost didn’t happen.

47Contempt of Court with Elie MystalThe Nation MagazineContempt of Court is an original podcast series from The Nation about how to reform the Supreme Court.

48Cover Up: The Anthrax ThreatSony Music EntertainmentFrom The Binge, Crime Scene is a weekly show that plunges you into cases you can’t stop thinking about.    Join Jonathan Hirsch, host of My Fugitive Dad and Dear Franklin Jones and producer behind shows like The Thing About Pam and Dr. Death, as he teams up with investigative reporter and podcaster Cooper Moll to crack open the cases that deserve a second look.    Each episode weaves an intricate true crime story with real photos and videos from the cases-- the kind of reporting you could only get from two experts who spent years in the field.

49Crime CountdownSpotify StudiosWho’s the worst serial killer?

50CrimeLessiHeartPodcasts + Smartless MediaWhat’s the best way to rob a bank?