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Historical Tales

Podcasts which tell interesting and well-researched stories from history.

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Booksthatburn

Created December 17, 2019

Updated November 15, 2021

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  1. Deep Dives

  2. 99% Invisible

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    Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Lear
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    human behaviorArtsDesign

  3. Always Here: An LGBT History Podcast

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    "Always Here" is an LGBT history podcast hosted by Miri Josephs and Adrian Webster. Join us twice a month to learn about the history they don't teach in school.
    EducationHistory

  4. Bag Man

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    Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals in American history play out before the country while no
    NewsHistory

  5. Behind the Bastards

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    There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst h
    SocietyCulture

  6. Crimetown

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    Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt:
    gimlet mediaNews

  7. Ephemeral

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    The best source on our cultural identity is not the official, historical record — ask any anthropologist, it’s the town dump. Ephemera — those things that were just barely saved, and in some cases not saved at all — emanate with secrets we can
    HistorySocietyCulture

  8. Futility Closet

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    Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.
    History

  9. Heaven's Gate

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    In 1997, thirty-nine people took their own lives in an apparent mass suicide. The events captivated the media and had people across the planet asking the same question... ‘Why?’ 20 years later, those who lost loved ones and those who still beli
    CultHistory

  10. Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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    Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.
    LGBTPersonal Journals

  11. My Book of Mormon

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    New RSS feed: http://mybookofmormonpodcast.libsyn.com/rssEver wondered what Mormon religious texts really say? Play the drinking game with us as we read them all!!!
    ReligionSpiritualityOther

  12. Naked Mormonism Podcast

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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has been around for almost two centuries. It has ebbed and fluctuated in such a predictably adaptive manner throughout it's relatively short life in the religious realm. This Church has a very so
    ReligionSpirituality

  13. Revolutions

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    A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ???
    SocietyCulture

  14. Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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    Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we've tried to fix people.
    ComedyHealth

  15. The History of Rome

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    A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now complete!
    ancient historySociety

  16. The Dropout

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    Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How d
    True Crime

  17. Unobscured

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    Each season of Unobscured digs deep into one of history's darkest and most misunderstood moments, and sheds light on the true story beneath the myth. Explore the Salem witch trials (S1), the Spiritualist Movement (S2), Jack the Ripper (S3), a
    HistorySocietyCulture

  18. One Year

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    The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science,
    HistoryNews

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