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History Nerds United is a history podcast hosted by Brendan Dowd. It has 206 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Let's make history fun again! Come listen to interviews with award winning authors, the rantings of a history nerd, and various other things. Enjoy!

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1

A Mysterious London Death with Patrick Radden Keefe

2

The British Crown and Slavery with Brooke Newman

3

Books I Don't Want You To Miss for March 2026

4

The Seven Daughters of Maria Theresa with Veronica Buckley

5

The Pursuit of Professional Wrestling Glory with Alison Lyn Miller and Hollywood Hunter James

6

Hawai'i, Family, and Legacy with Sara Kehaulani Goo

7

Larry Bird at Indiana State University with Keith O'Brien

8

Books I Don't Want You To Miss for February 2026

9

Ruby Ridge with Chris Jennings

10

The Most Prolific Female Serial Killer in History, Elizabeth Bathory, with Shelley Puhak

11

The Bernie Goetz Case with Elliot Williams

12

American Sports Gambling With Danny Funt

13

Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

14

Books I Don't Want You To Miss for January 2026

15

The Search for a Sunken Spanish Galleon with Julian Sancton

16

Thomas Paine and the American Revolution with Jack Kelly

17

Charlotte Brontë's Legacy With Graham Watson

18

St. Joan of Arc with Helen Castor

19

The History of Whiskey with Noah Rothbaum

20

James VI and I with Gareth Russell

21

The History and Future of the Wind with Simon Winchester

22

The Life of Joan Crawford with Scott Eyman

23

NASA's Gemini Space Program With Jeffrey Kluger

24

Elizabeth I, James I, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty With Tracy Borman

25

Teddy Roosevelt with Bret Baier

26

The Exoneration Fight of Leo Schofield With Pulitzer Prize Winner Gilbert King

27

The Zorg, The Slave Ship That Ignited Abolition with Siddharth Kara

28

The Trial of Al Qaeda Terrorist Spin Ghul with Jake Tapper

29

The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with John Bacon

30

Deadwood with Peter Cozzens

31

The Special Counsel Cases of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Biden, and Trump with Elie Honig

32

1999 with Ross Benes

33

"Pirate" Captain William Kidd with Samuel Marquis

34

The World War II Women of the Italian Resistance with Suzanne Cope

35

Catholic Saints and Canonization with Kate Sidley

36

Saint Thomas More with Joanne Paul

37

The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson

38

Argentina's Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Who Fought to Find Their Lost Grandchildren with Haley Cohen Gilliland

39

Amelia Earhart and Her Husband George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro

40

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the People Overlooked in Civil War History with Scott Ellsworth

41

The Murders of the London Blitz with Amy Helen Bell and Roosevelt to Roosevelt with Stan Haynes

42

The Roosevelt Brothers' Search for the Elusive Giant Panda with Nathalia Holt

43

The Viking Age and the Lives of Everyday Norsemen with Eleanor Barraclough

44

The Greatest Monsters of History Including Vampires, Rougarou, Dragons, and Even Godzilla with Nick Jubber

45

Ted Bundy, the Rise of Serial Killers, Pacific Northwest Life, and the Lead Crime Hypothesis with Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser

46

English Kings, Their Favorites, and the Upheaval of the 14th Century with Helen Carr

47

The Battle of the Atlantic and the Heist of a German U-Boat with Alexander Rose

48

Midway Island and the World War II Battle That Changed the Pacific Theater with Martin Dugard

49

World War II Art Spy Rose Valland with Michelle Young

50

WWII Era Serial Killer Reg Christie and (Maybe?) the Execution of an Innocent Man with Kate Summerscale

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