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History Nerds United — 232 episodes
Carlos the Jackal with Joby Warrick
Surviving the Syrian Revolution with Loubna Mrie
The Atomic Bombs with James M. Scott
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for July 2026
Richard Pryor and a Terrible Word with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
The Weather Underground with Zayd Ayers Dohrn
An Innocent Man on Death Row with Pamela Colloff
The L.A. Wildfires of 2025 with Jonathan Vigliotti
The U.S. Constitutional Convention with Lawrence Goldstone
The American Revolution with Rick Atkinson
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for June 2026
A Spokane Serial Killer with Gregg Olsen
The Presidents and Their Money with Megan Gorman
Plymouth, Jamestown, and the Two Ships with David Reynolds
The Depression of 1873 with Liaquat Ahamed
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for May 2026
The Black Death with Thomas Asbridge
The Rise and Fall of Emanuel Nobel with Douglas Brunt
Marathons and the Worldwide Running Boom with Martin Dugard
Athens and Sparta with Adrian Goldsworthy
The Syrian Revolution with Anand Gopal
The Doomed Journey of Francisco Coronado with Peter Stark
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for April 2026
The Women of the Stuart Restoration Court with Breeze Barrington
The Supreme Court with Sarah Isgur
Rasputin with Antony Beevor
A Mysterious London Death with Patrick Radden Keefe
The British Crown and Slavery with Brooke Newman
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for March 2026
The Seven Daughters of Maria Theresa with Veronica Buckley
The Pursuit of Professional Wrestling Glory with Alison Lyn Miller and Hollywood Hunter James
Hawai'i, Family, and Legacy with Sara Kehaulani Goo
Larry Bird at Indiana State University with Keith O'Brien
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for February 2026
Ruby Ridge with Chris Jennings
The Most Prolific Female Serial Killer in History, Elizabeth Bathory, with Shelley Puhak
The Bernie Goetz Case with Elliot Williams
American Sports Gambling With Danny Funt
Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for January 2026
The Search for a Sunken Spanish Galleon with Julian Sancton
Thomas Paine and the American Revolution with Jack Kelly
Charlotte Brontë's Legacy With Graham Watson
St. Joan of Arc with Helen Castor
The History of Whiskey with Noah Rothbaum
James VI and I with Gareth Russell
The History and Future of the Wind with Simon Winchester
The Life of Joan Crawford with Scott Eyman
NASA's Gemini Space Program With Jeffrey Kluger
Elizabeth I, James I, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty With Tracy Borman
Teddy Roosevelt with Bret Baier
The Exoneration Fight of Leo Schofield With Pulitzer Prize Winner Gilbert King
The Zorg, The Slave Ship That Ignited Abolition with Siddharth Kara
The Trial of Al Qaeda Terrorist Spin Ghul with Jake Tapper
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with John Bacon
Deadwood with Peter Cozzens
The Special Counsel Cases of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Biden, and Trump with Elie Honig
1999 with Ross Benes
"Pirate" Captain William Kidd with Samuel Marquis
The World War II Women of the Italian Resistance with Suzanne Cope
Catholic Saints and Canonization with Kate Sidley
Saint Thomas More with Joanne Paul
The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson
Argentina's Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Who Fought to Find Their Lost Grandchildren with Haley Cohen Gilliland
Amelia Earhart and Her Husband George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the People Overlooked in Civil War History with Scott Ellsworth
The Murders of the London Blitz with Amy Helen Bell and Roosevelt to Roosevelt with Stan Haynes
The Roosevelt Brothers' Search for the Elusive Giant Panda with Nathalia Holt
The Viking Age and the Lives of Everyday Norsemen with Eleanor Barraclough
The Greatest Monsters of History Including Vampires, Rougarou, Dragons, and Even Godzilla with Nick Jubber
Ted Bundy, the Rise of Serial Killers, Pacific Northwest Life, and the Lead Crime Hypothesis with Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser
English Kings, Their Favorites, and the Upheaval of the 14th Century with Helen Carr
The Battle of the Atlantic and the Heist of a German U-Boat with Alexander Rose
Midway Island and the World War II Battle That Changed the Pacific Theater with Martin Dugard
World War II Art Spy Rose Valland with Michelle Young
WWII Era Serial Killer Reg Christie and (Maybe?) the Execution of an Innocent Man with Kate Summerscale
The Publishing World and How to Be More Grateful About the Little Things with Todd Doughty
When Women Took Over the American Fashion on Fifth Avenue in 1900s New York City with Julie Satow
How New Amsterdam Became New York with Russell Shorto
The True Crime Case of Dr. Crippen with Hallie Rubenhold
Life in Video Games with Mike Drucker
Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and the Deadliest Accident in American Professional Sports with Eric Vickrey
World War II Nazi POWs in America with William Geroux
China and its People with NPR Correspondent Emily Feng
San Francisco's Turbulent History and an Unbelievable Gilded-Age Murder with Gary Krist
The History of Ancient Rome with Gareth Harney
Rebel Empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France with Nancy Goldstone
The First Airshow in American History with Richard Goodrich
Japan, Writing Biographies, Personal Loss, Family, and How the Little Things are What You Remember with Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Mashall
New York City Place Names and How They Got Them Like Major Deegan, Outerbridge, and Hutchinson with Rebecca Bratspies
Airships in the Arctic, Roald Amundsen, and a Rescue at the Top of the World with Buddy Levy
Burma, The Wa State, and the DEA vs. the CIA with Patrick Winn
The Wars of Russian History, Putin's Historical Inaccuracy, and the Charm of The Great with Mark Galeotti
The Return of American Revolution Hero the Marquis de Lafayette with Elizabeth Reese
Raised By A Serial Killer, Edward Wayne Edwards, with April Balascio
The True Crime Story of Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham and the OJ Simpson Trial with Marcia Clark
The FBI's War Against American Gangsters Like John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde with John Oller
Gladiators, Spartacus, and the Glory of Rome with Gladiator Historian Alexander Mariotti
The Untold Story of the Life of the Infamous Nathan Leopold of the Leopold and Loeb Murder with Erik Rebain
Shakespeare, Richard II, Henry IV, and the Rebellion That Had to Happen with Helen Castor
The History of Cunning Folk, Magic, and Why They Aren't Witches with Tabitha Stanmore
The Greatest Nobodies of History Including Leonardo da Vinci's Ferret, Henry VIII's Groom of the Stool, and Many More with YouTube Star Adrian Bliss
The Story of Serial Killer Shawn Grate with Retired Homicide Detective Kim Mager
The Greatest Warrior King in English History Henry V with Dan Jones
The Battle for American Isolationism Before World War II Between Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement vs. President Franklin Roosevelt with H.W. Brands
The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut with Jack Carr and James Scott
A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II with Abbott Kahler
The 1980 Iranian Embassy Hostage Crisis in London and the SAS Operation to Save Them with Ben Macintyre
Alexander the Great with Rachel Kousser
The Heroic British Pilots of the Battle of Britain in World War II with Martin Dugard
The Murdaugh Murders of South Carolina With The Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerlein
The Million Dollar McDonald's Scam with James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
The Historical Accuracy of the Red Dead Redemption Video Games Series with Tore Olsson
The Life of Brazilian Trialblazer and Explorer Cândido Rondon with Larry Rohter
A Love Story of Auschwitz During World War II with Keren Blankfeld
Cold War Conversations Host Ian Sanders
How China's Treasures Were Saved During World War II With Adam Brookes
1800s New York City Criminal Mastermind Marm Mandelbaum with Margalit Fox
Jazz Age Jewel Thief Arthur Barry With Dean Jobb
The History of Reality TV with Pulitzer Prize Winner Emily Nussbaum
Greek Life and a Fraternity Drug Ring at the College of Charleston with Max Marshall
The Name of the Catfish Who Conned Her With Anna Akbari (Part 2: SPOILERS ABOUND)
Caught Up With An Infamous Catfish Fraud With Anna Akbari (Part 1: NO SPOILERS)
The Quest for El Dorado and the Fall of Sir Walter Raleigh with Keith Thomson
Early 1900s Terrorism in New York City and the Anarchy Movement with Steven Johnson
NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster with Adam Higginbotham
The Battles for the British Kingdom from 1000-1066 with Don Hollway
The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt with Charlotte Gray
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with Bettany Hughes
The Final Voyage of Legendary British Explorer Captain James Cook with Hampton Sides
Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland with Henry Hemming
The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre in Georgia With Earl Swift
Stéphane Bréitwieser the Most Prolific Art Thief of All Time With Michael Finkel
The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose With Keith O'Brien
NASA, Asteroids, and the OSIRIS-REx Mission With Dante Lauretta
The Abdication of Edward VIII With Jane Tippett
North Korea and Kim Jong Un's Dangerous Sister Kim Yo Jong With Sung-Yoon Lee
The Life and Death of Snowboarding Pioneer and Legend Craig Kelly With Eric Blehm
The Battle of Agincourt with Michael Livingston
The American Glider Pilots of World War II With Scott McGaugh
The Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis With Maria Smilios
The Casablanca Conference of World War II With James Conroy
The Rise of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky With Time Magazine Correspondent Simon Shuster
The Music of the 90s With The Ringer's Rob Harvilla
The Polly Klaas Kidnapping With Kim Cross
John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's Rediscovery of the Maya With William Carlsen
How George Washington Kept the Army Together During the American Revolution With Seanegan Sculley
The Lost Battalion of World War I With Ed Lengel
George Kennan's Epic Journey Through Russia's Siberia With Gregory Wallance
Life as a Watchmaker and the History of Keeping Time With Rebecca Struthers
The Race to Save Russia's Jewish People Before World War I With Steven Ujifusa
The Women Who Fought to Bring Their POW Husbands Home From Vietnam With Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Judy Silverstein Gray
Podcaster Jessica Cale from Dirty Sexy History
Charlie Chaplin's Battle with the American Government With Scott Eyman
The Legacy of Siskel and Ebert With Screencrush's Matt Singer
The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 With Matthew Davenport
The Only IRA Hit on American Soil With Mark Bulik
American Revolution Road Trip With Bob Thompson
The Newspaper Wars of New York Over Robert Peary and Frederick Cook's Race for the North Pole With Darrell Hartman
Thomas Smallwood and His Amazing Exploits Helping Slaves Escape With Pulitzer Prize Winner Scott Shane
Journalism With Former AP Bureau Chief for Mexico and Central America Katherine Corcoran
Her Father's Defence of Two Canadian Murderers and How It Affected Her Family With Amy Bell
New York City's History With Chance Kelly
The Search for Three Missing Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail With Andrea Lankford
The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots With Leah Redmond Chang
The American Servicewomen of World War II With Lena Andrews
The Deep Ocean and the Oceangate Disaster With Susan Casey
World War II Akimel O'odham Warrior and Hero Ira Hayes With Tom Holm
Great White Sharks With Shark Expert Greg Skomal and co-author Ret Talbot
Life as a War Journalist With Jane Ferguson
Rosa Parks and the O Street Museum With H.H. Leonards
1910's Halley's Comet Panic With Richard Goodrich
Edgar Allan Poe With Mark Dawidziak
How to Fix the Hollywood System With Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan
George Washington's Descendants With Cassandra Good
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Schemes With Emily Lynn Paulson
The Jazz Age Rivalry of Senator Burton Wheeler and Attorney General Harry Daugherty With Lost L.A. Host Nathan Masters
The Battles for the Rzhev Salient 1942-43 in World War II With Prit Buttar
The History of Knowledge With Simon Winchester
The 1998 New York Yankees With Jack Curry
The Shipwreck and Survival Story of the Wager With David Grann
The Texas Rangers and Their Leader Leander McNelly With Tom Clavin
David Koresh and Waco with Stephan Talty
Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen With Reid Mitenbuler
Denver DA Philip Van Cise and His War on Corruption and the Klan With Alan Prendergast
The Horrors of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphange in Vermont With Christine Kenneally
The Greatest Poets of Northern Ireland With Alexander Poots
Russia, Putin, and the Future of the Ukraine War With Mark Galeotti
Archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt With Lynne Olson
World War II Political Fixer Anna Rosenberg With Christopher Gorham
South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case With Lou Raguse
The German View From Dunkirk in World War II With Robert Kershaw
World War II U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew With Steve Kemper
The 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the Heroism of Bob Bartlett With Buddy Levy
Spain With Giles Tremlett
The Murder Cases That Still Haunt Retired Toronto Homicide Detective Steve Ryan
Season 1 Wrap Up
The Civil War Battle Waged to Build a Confederate Navy With Alexander Rose
The Germans Trying to Bring Down Hitler in World War II With Tom Dunkel
Benedict Arnold With James Kirby Martin
The Red Widow of Paris Margeurite Steinheil With Sarah Horowitz
Samuel Adams With Pulitzer Prize Winner Stacy Schiff
The Murder of Mexican Journalist Regina Martinez With Katherine Corcoran
History, Weed, and Sister Podcasting With Laurel from High Tales of History
Gilded Age Serial Killer Edward Rulloff With Kate Winkler Dawson
Her Father's Life Growing Up in the Jim Crow South With Nita Whitaker
Bootleg King George Remus and a Jazz Age Murder With Abbott Kahler
Pope Pius XII and the Vatican During World War II With Pulitzer Prize Winner David Kertzer
Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb in World War II With James M. Scott
The Great Stewardess Rebellion With Nell McShane Wulfhart
The Rise and Fall of Retail Kingpin Crazy Eddie Antar With Gary Weiss
The (Kinda) Paranormal Escape of Two World War I Prisoners With Margalit Fox
The Scandals of Alexander Hamilton's Decendants With Bill Shaffer
The Assault of a New York City Sewing Girl in 1793 With John Wood Sweet
Japan and Her Favorite History With TK from For the Love of History Podcast
The Immortal Chaplains of World War II With Steven T. Collis
The History of Organ Transplants and Crackpot Science With Paul Craddock
Fairy Tales and Their Sometimes Very Weird Origins With Nicholas Jubber
Privateers, Pirates, Whaling, Hurricanes, and Lighthouses With Eric Jay Dolin
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs With Paleontologist Riley Black
The Pirates Who Raided the South Seas and Rescued a Princess With Keith Thomson
The Deadly Rivalry of Medieval Queens Brunhild and Fredegund With Shelley Puhak
New York City Jazz Age Madam Polly Adler With Pulitzer Prize Winner Debby Applegate
The Invasion Ukraine and the Similarities to World War II With James Kirby Martin
The Yalta Conference of World War II and the Daughters of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harriman With Catherine Grace Katz
Dostoevsky and His True Crime Inspiration for Crime and Punishment With Kevin Birmingham
The Dresden Bombings of World War II With James Kirby Martin
The Kidnapping of Daniel Boone's Daughter Jemima and Early Colonial Justice With Tobey & Matthew Pearl
The Battle of Manila in World War II With James M. Scott
The Army/Navy Prank War With Prankmaster General Mike Nemeth
Arctic Exploration, Conquistadors, and Exploring the Amazon With Buddy Levy
The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence With Kate Moore