In school, history was perhaps a rather unpopular subject, but with the right podcast, it does become quite interesting. Podcasts are a kind of audio book, which can be about all sorts of topics. Here we would like to show you the most exciting history podcasts, so that you can have fun understanding history and maybe even learn one or two new and exciting things.
A podcast is a subscription-based audio series. A podcast is always about a certain topic and podcast episodes can be published as regularly as you like in freely selectable time periods. From comedy to biographies, everything is covered in the world of podcasts, and there is actually a podcast on every topic. Here we are looking in particular at podcasts on the subject of history. There are so many areas of history that can be covered and so various historians and amateurs have taken it upon themselves to bring history a little closer to their listeners. Whether it’s about crimes of mankind or women’s right to vote you can just pick and choose in the episodes themselves. On Spotify, Apple Music & Co. you can listen to your selected podcast, switch back and forth between the episodes or follow several podcasts at once.
Top History Podcasts
Past crimes
Time jump: stories from history
All history
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Heirlooms: History of the Germans
Past crimes
Crime meets history. In this podcast, GEO Epoch tells old stories about various human crimes in a kind of time travel. Without many historical facts that could disturb the flow of listening, the stories are told as if you yourself are in the time. Especially crime podcasts are super popular at the moment and are particularly well received by listeners. To combine the whole thing so cleverly with history and also to report on the crimes of thousands of years ago, as if they had just happened make this knowledge podcast extremely exciting.
The historians Daniel Messner and Richard Hemmer tell each other a story from history every week, without knowing which one the other has chosen. It is about all eras, forgotten events and extraordinary personalities. In this podcast it is especially easy to understand the history. Highly interesting topics are addressed each week and told in a way that is easy to understand. Anyone who wants to gain really well-researched historical knowledge should definitely listen in here.
Historical context and the most important people and events in one podcast from ARD. radioWissen tells stories from the past about racism, emancipation, kings and queens, events in history that make the world the way we know it today and breaks down each topic individually and in great detail. With slightly more classic and general stories, this podcast reaches a huge range of listeners who just want to learn more about history in general.
Comedy and history combined. Three men who, in addition to their normal jobs, do a podcast together and talk about history every week. They cleverly combine the imparting of knowledge with comedy, simply because they make a conversation out of the telling and similar to Zeitsprung only the narrator himself knows what it will be about.
American Travis Dow grew up in Germany and can tell from his own experience in his podcast Americana for you (Americana: Something that is about positive history and culture of Americans) all the things from American history that stand for the greatness of the country today.
BBC Witness History lets the people who lived through the events that shaped human history tell their stories. Whether it’s a refugee or a Holocaust survivor, they all have their say in this podcast and bring you the events as close as any history book or expert could.
The things that often get lost in American history classes are explained in this podcast by two ladies in a way that everyone can understand. For general knowledge (especially in American history) this podcast is especially good.
This podcast about ancient history is recommended by experts. It is mainly about the stories far before our time, e.g. in ancient Greece and what they have to do with the here and now or how they influence it.
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