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History Nerds United — 219 episodes

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Plymouth, Jamestown, and the Two Ships with David Reynolds

2

The Depression of 1873 with Liaquat Ahamed

3

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

4

The Black Death with Thomas Asbridge

5

The Rise and Fall of Emanuel Nobel with Douglas Brunt

6

Marathons and the Worldwide Running Boom with Martin Dugard

7

Athens and Sparta with Adrian Goldsworthy

8

The Syrian Revolution with Anand Gopal

9

The Doomed Journey of Francisco Coronado with Peter Stark

10

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

11

The Women of the Stuart Restoration Court with Breeze Barrington

12

The Supreme Court with Sarah Isgur

13

Rasputin with Antony Beevor

14

A Mysterious London Death with Patrick Radden Keefe

15

The British Crown and Slavery with Brooke Newman

16

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

17

The Seven Daughters of Maria Theresa with Veronica Buckley

18

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

19

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

20

Larry Bird at Indiana State University with Keith O'Brien

21

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

22

Ruby Ridge with Chris Jennings

23

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

24

The Bernie Goetz Case with Elliot Williams

25

American Sports Gambling With Danny Funt

26

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

27

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

28

The Search for a Sunken Spanish Galleon with Julian Sancton

29

Thomas Paine and the American Revolution with Jack Kelly

30

Charlotte Brontë's Legacy With Graham Watson

31

St. Joan of Arc with Helen Castor

32

The History of Whiskey with Noah Rothbaum

33

James VI and I with Gareth Russell

34

The History and Future of the Wind with Simon Winchester

35

The Life of Joan Crawford with Scott Eyman

36

NASA's Gemini Space Program With Jeffrey Kluger

37

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

38

Teddy Roosevelt with Bret Baier

39

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

40

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

41

The Trial of Al Qaeda Terrorist Spin Ghul with Jake Tapper

42

The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with John Bacon

43

Deadwood with Peter Cozzens

44

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

45

1999 with Ross Benes

46

"Pirate" Captain William Kidd with Samuel Marquis

47

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

48

Catholic Saints and Canonization with Kate Sidley

49

Saint Thomas More with Joanne Paul

50

The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson

51

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

52

Amelia Earhart and Her Husband George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

World War II Art Spy Rose Valland with Michelle Young

63

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

64

The Publishing World and How to Be More Grateful About the Little Things with Todd Doughty

65

When Women Took Over the American Fashion on Fifth Avenue in 1900s New York City with Julie Satow

66

How New Amsterdam Became New York with Russell Shorto

67

The True Crime Case of Dr. Crippen with Hallie Rubenhold

68

Life in Video Games with Mike Drucker

69

Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and the Deadliest Accident in American Professional Sports with Eric Vickrey

70

World War II Nazi POWs in America with William Geroux

71

China and its People with NPR Correspondent Emily Feng

72

San Francisco's Turbulent History and an Unbelievable Gilded-Age Murder with Gary Krist

73

The History of Ancient Rome with Gareth Harney

74

Rebel Empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France with Nancy Goldstone

75

The First Airshow in American History with Richard Goodrich

76

Japan, Writing Biographies, Personal Loss, Family, and How the Little Things are What You Remember with Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Mashall

77

New York City Place Names and How They Got Them Like Major Deegan, Outerbridge, and Hutchinson with Rebecca Bratspies

78

Airships in the Arctic, Roald Amundsen, and a Rescue at the Top of the World with Buddy Levy

79

Burma, The Wa State, and the DEA vs. the CIA with Patrick Winn

80

The Wars of Russian History, Putin's Historical Inaccuracy, and the Charm of The Great with Mark Galeotti

81

The Return of American Revolution Hero the Marquis de Lafayette with Elizabeth Reese

82

Raised By A Serial Killer, Edward Wayne Edwards, with April Balascio

83

The True Crime Story of Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham and the OJ Simpson Trial with Marcia Clark

84

The FBI's War Against American Gangsters Like John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde with John Oller

85

Gladiators, Spartacus, and the Glory of Rome with Gladiator Historian Alexander Mariotti

86

The Untold Story of the Life of the Infamous Nathan Leopold of the Leopold and Loeb Murder with Erik Rebain

87

Shakespeare, Richard II, Henry IV, and the Rebellion That Had to Happen with Helen Castor

88

The History of Cunning Folk, Magic, and Why They Aren't Witches with Tabitha Stanmore

89

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

90

The Story of Serial Killer Shawn Grate with Retired Homicide Detective Kim Mager

91

The Greatest Warrior King in English History Henry V with Dan Jones

92

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

93

The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut with Jack Carr and James Scott

94

A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II with Abbott Kahler

95

The 1980 Iranian Embassy Hostage Crisis in London and the SAS Operation to Save Them with Ben Macintyre

96

Alexander the Great with Rachel Kousser

97

The Heroic British Pilots of the Battle of Britain in World War II with Martin Dugard

98

The Murdaugh Murders of South Carolina With The Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerlein

99

The Million Dollar McDonald's Scam with James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte

100

The Historical Accuracy of the Red Dead Redemption Video Games Series with Tore Olsson

101

The Life of Brazilian Trialblazer and Explorer Cândido Rondon with Larry Rohter

102

A Love Story of Auschwitz During World War II with Keren Blankfeld

103

Cold War Conversations Host Ian Sanders

104

How China's Treasures Were Saved During World War II With Adam Brookes

105

1800s New York City Criminal Mastermind Marm Mandelbaum with Margalit Fox

106

Jazz Age Jewel Thief Arthur Barry With Dean Jobb

107

The History of Reality TV with Pulitzer Prize Winner Emily Nussbaum

108

Greek Life and a Fraternity Drug Ring at the College of Charleston with Max Marshall

109

The Name of the Catfish Who Conned Her With Anna Akbari (Part 2: SPOILERS ABOUND)

110

Caught Up With An Infamous Catfish Fraud With Anna Akbari (Part 1: NO SPOILERS)

111

The Quest for El Dorado and the Fall of Sir Walter Raleigh with Keith Thomson

112

Early 1900s Terrorism in New York City and the Anarchy Movement with Steven Johnson

113

NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster with Adam Higginbotham

114

The Battles for the British Kingdom from 1000-1066 with Don Hollway

115

The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt with Charlotte Gray

116

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with Bettany Hughes

117

The Final Voyage of Legendary British Explorer Captain James Cook with Hampton Sides

118

Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland with Henry Hemming

119

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre in Georgia With Earl Swift

120

Stéphane Bréitwieser the Most Prolific Art Thief of All Time With Michael Finkel

121

The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose With Keith O'Brien

122

NASA, Asteroids, and the OSIRIS-REx Mission With Dante Lauretta

123

The Abdication of Edward VIII With Jane Tippett

124

North Korea and Kim Jong Un's Dangerous Sister Kim Yo Jong With Sung-Yoon Lee

125

The Life and Death of Snowboarding Pioneer and Legend Craig Kelly With Eric Blehm

126

The Battle of Agincourt with Michael Livingston

127

The American Glider Pilots of World War II With Scott McGaugh

128

The Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis With Maria Smilios

129

The Casablanca Conference of World War II With James Conroy

130

The Rise of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky With Time Magazine Correspondent Simon Shuster

131

The Music of the 90s With The Ringer's Rob Harvilla

132

The Polly Klaas Kidnapping With Kim Cross

133

John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's Rediscovery of the Maya With William Carlsen

134

How George Washington Kept the Army Together During the American Revolution With Seanegan Sculley

135

The Lost Battalion of World War I With Ed Lengel

136

George Kennan's Epic Journey Through Russia's Siberia With Gregory Wallance

137

Life as a Watchmaker and the History of Keeping Time With Rebecca Struthers

138

The Race to Save Russia's Jewish People Before World War I With Steven Ujifusa

139

The Women Who Fought to Bring Their POW Husbands Home From Vietnam With Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Judy Silverstein Gray

140

Podcaster Jessica Cale from Dirty Sexy History

141

Charlie Chaplin's Battle with the American Government With Scott Eyman

142

The Legacy of Siskel and Ebert With Screencrush's Matt Singer

143

The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 With Matthew Davenport

144

The Only IRA Hit on American Soil With Mark Bulik

145

American Revolution Road Trip With Bob Thompson

146

The Newspaper Wars of New York Over Robert Peary and Frederick Cook's Race for the North Pole With Darrell Hartman

147

Thomas Smallwood and His Amazing Exploits Helping Slaves Escape With Pulitzer Prize Winner Scott Shane

148

Journalism With Former AP Bureau Chief for Mexico and Central America Katherine Corcoran

149

Her Father's Defence of Two Canadian Murderers and How It Affected Her Family With Amy Bell

150

New York City's History With Chance Kelly

151

The Search for Three Missing Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail With Andrea Lankford

152

The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots With Leah Redmond Chang

153

The American Servicewomen of World War II With Lena Andrews

154

The Deep Ocean and the Oceangate Disaster With Susan Casey

155

World War II Akimel O'odham Warrior and Hero Ira Hayes With Tom Holm

156

Great White Sharks With Shark Expert Greg Skomal and co-author Ret Talbot

157

Life as a War Journalist With Jane Ferguson

158

Rosa Parks and the O Street Museum With H.H. Leonards

159

1910's Halley's Comet Panic With Richard Goodrich

160

Edgar Allan Poe With Mark Dawidziak

161

How to Fix the Hollywood System With Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan

162

George Washington's Descendants With Cassandra Good

163

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Schemes With Emily Lynn Paulson

164

The Jazz Age Rivalry of Senator Burton Wheeler and Attorney General Harry Daugherty With Lost L.A. Host Nathan Masters

165

The Battles for the Rzhev Salient 1942-43 in World War II With Prit Buttar

166

The History of Knowledge With Simon Winchester

167

The 1998 New York Yankees With Jack Curry

168

The Shipwreck and Survival Story of the Wager With David Grann

169

The Texas Rangers and Their Leader Leander McNelly With Tom Clavin

170

David Koresh and Waco with Stephan Talty

171

Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen With Reid Mitenbuler

172

Denver DA Philip Van Cise and His War on Corruption and the Klan With Alan Prendergast

173

The Horrors of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphange in Vermont With Christine Kenneally

174

The Greatest Poets of Northern Ireland With Alexander Poots

175

Russia, Putin, and the Future of the Ukraine War With Mark Galeotti

176

Archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt With Lynne Olson

177

World War II Political Fixer Anna Rosenberg With Christopher Gorham

178

South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case With Lou Raguse

179

The German View From Dunkirk in World War II With Robert Kershaw

180

World War II U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew With Steve Kemper

181

The 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the Heroism of Bob Bartlett With Buddy Levy

182

Spain With Giles Tremlett

183

The Murder Cases That Still Haunt Retired Toronto Homicide Detective Steve Ryan

184

Season 1 Wrap Up

185

The Civil War Battle Waged to Build a Confederate Navy With Alexander Rose

186

The Germans Trying to Bring Down Hitler in World War II With Tom Dunkel

187

Benedict Arnold With James Kirby Martin

188

The Red Widow of Paris Margeurite Steinheil With Sarah Horowitz

189

Samuel Adams With Pulitzer Prize Winner Stacy Schiff

190

The Murder of Mexican Journalist Regina Martinez With Katherine Corcoran

191

History, Weed, and Sister Podcasting With Laurel from High Tales of History

192

Gilded Age Serial Killer Edward Rulloff With Kate Winkler Dawson

193

Her Father's Life Growing Up in the Jim Crow South With Nita Whitaker

194

Bootleg King George Remus and a Jazz Age Murder With Abbott Kahler

195

Pope Pius XII and the Vatican During World War II With Pulitzer Prize Winner David Kertzer

196

Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb in World War II With James M. Scott

197

The Great Stewardess Rebellion With Nell McShane Wulfhart

198

The Rise and Fall of Retail Kingpin Crazy Eddie Antar With Gary Weiss

199

The (Kinda) Paranormal Escape of Two World War I Prisoners With Margalit Fox

200

The Scandals of Alexander Hamilton's Decendants With Bill Shaffer

201

The Assault of a New York City Sewing Girl in 1793 With John Wood Sweet

202

Japan and Her Favorite History With TK from For the Love of History Podcast

203

The Immortal Chaplains of World War II With Steven T. Collis

204

The History of Organ Transplants and Crackpot Science With Paul Craddock

205

Fairy Tales and Their Sometimes Very Weird Origins With Nicholas Jubber

206

Privateers, Pirates, Whaling, Hurricanes, and Lighthouses With Eric Jay Dolin

207

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs With Paleontologist Riley Black

208

The Pirates Who Raided the South Seas and Rescued a Princess With Keith Thomson

209

The Deadly Rivalry of Medieval Queens Brunhild and Fredegund With Shelley Puhak

210

New York City Jazz Age Madam Polly Adler With Pulitzer Prize Winner Debby Applegate

211

The Invasion Ukraine and the Similarities to World War II With James Kirby Martin

212

The Yalta Conference of World War II and the Daughters of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harriman With Catherine Grace Katz

213

Dostoevsky and His True Crime Inspiration for Crime and Punishment With Kevin Birmingham

214

The Dresden Bombings of World War II With James Kirby Martin

215

The Kidnapping of Daniel Boone's Daughter Jemima and Early Colonial Justice With Tobey & Matthew Pearl

216

The Battle of Manila in World War II With James M. Scott

217

The Army/Navy Prank War With Prankmaster General Mike Nemeth

218

Arctic Exploration, Conquistadors, and Exploring the Amazon With Buddy Levy

219

The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence With Kate Moore