- Home
- Podcasts
- Arts
- Books
- Fashion & Beauty
- Food
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
- Business
- Careers
- Entrepreneurship
- Investing
- Management
- Marketing
- Non-Profit
- Comedy
- Comedy Interviews
- Improve
- Stand-Up
- Education
- Courses
- How To
- Language Learning
- Self-Improvement
- Fiction
- Comedy Fiction
- Drama
- Science Fiction
- Government
- Health & Fitness
- Alternative Health
- Fitness
- Medicine
- Mental Health
- Nutrition
- Sexuality
- History
- Kids & Family
- Education for Kids
- Parenting
- Pets & Animals
- Stories for Kids
- Leisure
- Animation & Manga
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Crafts
- Games
- Hobbies
- Home & Garden
- Video Games
- Music
- Music Commentary
- Music History
- Music Interviews
- News
- Business News
- Daily News
- Entertainment News
- News Commentary
- Politics
- Sports News
- Tech News
- Religion & Spirituality
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Religion
- Spirituality
- Science
- Astronomy
- Chemistry
- Earth Sciences
- Life Sciences
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
- Nature
- Physics
- Social Sciences
- Society & Culture
- Documentary
- Personal Journals
- Philosophy
- Places & Travel
- Relationships
- Sports
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Fantasy Sports
- Football
- Golf
- Hockey
- Rugby
- Running
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Wilderness
- Wrestling
- TV & Film
- After Shows
- Film History
- Film Interviews
- Film Reviews
- TV Reviews
- Technology
- True Crime
- Music
- Spatial Audio
- George Michael Covered
- Hits
- Charts
- New Music
- Apple Music Radio
- Punjabi
- Apple Music Live: Lil Durk
- Summertime Sounds
- Hip-Hop
- Country
- Feel Good
- Pop
- Latin
- Fitness
- Chill
- Alternative
- Punk
- Dance
- Party
- DJ Mixes
- Essentials
- Electronic
- Kids
- Family
- Up Next
- Christian
- Urbano Latino
- Musica Mexicana
- Decades
- Rock
- Classic Rock
- Hard Rock
- Metal
- Acoustic
- Indie
- Classical
- Jazz
- Romance
- Reggae
- Focus
- Motivation
- Pop Latino
- K-Pop
- C-Pop
- Soul/Funk
- Gospel
- Oldies
- Americana
- Audio Book
- Arts and Entertainment
- Latino
- Biographies and Memoirs
- Business
- Classics
- Comedy
- Drama and Poetry
- Mystery
- History
- Kids and Young Adults
- Languages
- News
- Nonfiction
- Romance
- Religion and Spirituality
- Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- Science
- Self Development
- Speakers and Storytellers
- Sports
- Technology
- Travel and Adventure
- Pages
- Blog
- Own Audio
Find the licence that's right for your business
Listen Show PodCast
Truman’s Deep Regret at the Atomic Age He Created
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How Soccer Created African and Latin American Nations
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Sawmill – Along With Gunpowder and the Printing Press – Created the Modern World
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Gears, Gold, and Global Peace: A Steampunk Bitcoin Journey Through an Alternate 20th Century
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Before the Cold War, Russia and America Were the Closest of Distant Friends
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Horrifying Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Titanic of the Great Lakes
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Inside the Deadly German U-Boats That Brought Britain to Its Knees (But Were Deadlier for Their Own Crews)
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Manifest Destiny, Powered by Coal: How “Black Gold” Conquered the American Continent
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Ancient Athens Picked Its Leaders by Lottery for Over 200 Years. Some Think This System Should Replace Electoral Democracy
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How Would Nixon Have Handled the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Diogenes, the Father of Ancient Greek Stoicism, Loving Trolling His Audience and Could Out-Shock Borat
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Blown Off Course: How History’s Windy Turning Points Sank the Armada and Saved Japan from the Mongols
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Maps Have Bigger Problems Than the Mercator Projection. They Invent Mountain Ranges and Usually Eliminate New Zealand
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Great Mathematicians of the Early 1900s Ran into an Unsolvable Problem. They Realized Math Made No Sense
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The American Revolution was a World War in All but Name
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How Napoleon and Churchill Used Neuroscience to Make a Better Soldier and More Loyal Public
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
William F. Buckley JR.'s Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
What it Was Like Living Through the USSR’s Collapse
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Battle of Agincourt, 1415: Longbowmen, Bands of Brothers, and Henry V’s Triumph
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Clarence Dillon: The Roaring 20s Wall Street Baron Who Wrote the Rules for Corporate Takeovers, Junk Bonds, and Bankruptcy
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
A Utah Indian Chief Controlled the 1800s Mountain West Through Slave Trading, Building Pioneer Trails, Horse Stealing, and Becoming Mormon
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Why Did Rome Fall? Wrong Question. How Did it Last 2,000 Years Despite Changing its Religion, Language, and Government?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Camp David Looks Like a 1970s Lakeside Retreat. Why is it the Site of the World’s Biggest Political Summits?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process)
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Over 200,000 Allied Troops Tried and Failed to Crush the Soviet Revolution After World War One
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How the U.S. Occupation of Japan After WW2 Forged the Most Durable Peace of the 20th Century
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Homer Couldn't Have Written the Iliad, But He Probably Dictated it Word for Word
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Depression-Era Planners Thought They’d End Poverty with Public Housing. Instead, They Created the Projects
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Alabaman Jacksonians Who Rejected the Confederacy and Marched with Sherman to the Sea
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Frederick Douglass’s Private Writings on Abraham Lincoln, His Strong Critiques and Stronger Praise
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Industrial Revolution Was Supposed to Lead to Unlimited Free Time But Only Gave Us Smartphones and Endless Dopamine
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
James Cook Mapped the Globe Before Dying At the Hands of Hawaiians Who Once Worshipped Him
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
American Anarchists: The Original Domestic Extremists
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
100 Years Before Ford v. Ferrari, a Horse Breeder Revolutionized Thoroughbred Racing Through a Similar Obsession With Progress
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Western Rome Fell Due to Germanic Immigration, Mass Inflation, and a Bloated Bureaucracy
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan is as Justified in 2025 as it was in 1945
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?
Playlist
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.