Venus, Earth’s Evil Twin
Oct 19, 2026
October 22, 1975. After traveling millions of miles through space, a Soviet spacecraft plunges through thick clouds of sulfuric acid to land on Venus. Its goal: take a photograph of another planet’s…
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Audubon’s Birds Come Home to Roost
Oct 12, 2026
October 12, 1820. John James Audubon—a failed shopkeeper, grist miller, and steamboat investor—sets off from Cincinnati on a flatboat down the Ohio River. He is bankrupt. The bank has taken…
The Freemasons Get Away With Murder (Probably)
Oct 05, 2026
October 7, 1827. A body washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario. A Rochester newspaperman named Thurlow Weed believes he knows whose it is: William Morgan, a down-on-his-luck ex-Freemason who…
Free preview: The Real Blackbeard (HTW+)
Oct 02, 2026
A 5-min sample of our full interview about who Blackbeard really was, and the truth behind his pirate friends. Subscribe to HTW+ at htwpod.com or in your Apple Podcasts app to unlock full…
How Did Nixon Fumble the First TV Debate?
Sep 28, 2026
September 26, 1960. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon meet in a CBS studio in Chicago for the first televised debate between presidential nominees. Kennedy arrives tan, relaxed, and fully prepped…
From History's Greatest Mysteries: The Ark of the Covenant
Sep 25, 2026
Introducing History's Greatest Mysteries–a new History Channel podcast from Rewind Studios–available wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday.One of the holiest and most powerful…
The Man Who Taught America to Fear Fat
Sep 21, 2026
September 24, 1955. President Eisenhower is asleep in his bed at his in-laws’ house in Denver. At around 2 AM in the morning, he’s jolted awake by chest pains. No one realizes it until the morning…
The Uprising: Why the Peasants Loved Their King (w/ Paul Greengrass and Dan Jones)
Sep 17, 2026
1381. In the English countryside, one peasant has had enough. His resistance leads tens of thousands of armed peasants to march on London. They’re furious about taxes, about wages held down by law…
Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem
Sep 14, 2026
September 20, 1187. It’s daytime outside the walls of Jerusalem. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, ponders his next attack. His troops encircle and lay siege to the city. They vastly outnumber the…
Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Sep 11, 2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we're bringing you Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 – a collaboration between the History Channel and WNYC Studios. This was adapted from the complete nine-part series…
9/11: Rescue on the Water
Sep 07, 2026
September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to…
The Radium Girls Fight Back
Aug 31, 2026
September 12, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this otherwise healthy young woman will be dead. Others like her will soon follow. They’d all shared what…
Free preview: How Las Vegas Made America a Gambling Nation (HTW+)
Aug 28, 2026
A five-minute taste of our full interview on how Las Vegas became Las Vegas. Subscribe to HTW+ to hear the rest at htwpod.com or in your Apple Podcasts app.
Did Homer Write the Odyssey? (Was He Even Real?)
Aug 24, 2026
August, sometime in the 500s BCE. In Athens, the Great Panathenaia is in full swing: chariot races, boat races, a hundred cattle slaughtered for the feast. And at the center of it, a competition in…
The Wire That Connected the World
Aug 17, 2026
August 17, 1858. New York City wakes to a hundred-gun salute. Church bells ring, flags fly from public buildings, and by nightfall, fireworks light up the sky. The city is celebrating a telegram from…
The French Monarchy Falls in a Day
Aug 10, 2026
August 10, 1792. At midnight, a single church bell begins to ring in Paris. Then another. And another. It's not a call to mass… it's a call to arms. For three years, King Louis XVI and his family…
Arsenic, Adultery, and an American on Trial
Aug 03, 2026
August 7, 1889. In Liverpool's St. George's Hall, an American woman named Florence Maybrick stands behind iron bars, dressed in mourning black… for the husband she's accused of murdering. The…
Fall Out (Finale)
Jul 30, 2026
Listen to all 20 episodes of World War II with Tom Hanks wherever you get your podcasts!The war is over, and the Allies are triumphant. The United States and the Soviet Union initially work together…
Washington: Hero of the Revolution, from The Rest is History
Jul 27, 2026
Sharing an episode of a show we really love, called The Rest is History. Hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the show brings the past to life through gripping storytelling, sharp…
Ben Franklin Gets Fired
Jul 20, 2026
July 26, 1775. In a stately mansion turned rebel headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Washington sits down at a dining room table and writes out his orders for the day. The brand-new…
From First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"
Jul 16, 2026
We have been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that's not what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own words, what…
The Forgotten Father of Air Conditioning
Jul 13, 2026
July 14, 1850. At a swanky hotel in Apalachicola, Florida, the French consul is throwing a Bastille Day party, and he's promised his guests ice-cold champagne. There's just one problem: the town's…
The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part II)
Jul 06, 2026
July, 1845. Dr. Smith Boughton, the man behind the mask of "Big Thunder," is sitting in a Hudson jail after a trial that ended in a hung jury.The Anti-Renters had to celebrate Independence Day with…
Free HTW+ preview: Ken Burns on the American Revolution (Extended Interview)
Jul 03, 2026
Today, to celebrate America's 250th birthday, we have a special announcement: we are launching HISTORY This Week+ to all of our followers! (historythisweekpodcast.com/subscribe)This is something…
The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part I)
Jun 29, 2026
July 4, 1839. Sixty-three years after 1776—and centuries after the medieval period—feudalism is alive and well in the United States.High on a rocky plain in upstate New York, a crowd of tenant…
A Mob Boss Starts A Movement
Jun 22, 2026
June 28, 1971. It’s the second annual “Unity Day” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, organized by the Italian American Civil Rights League. Joe Colombo is the very public face of the League…
Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise – Prologue
Jun 19, 2026
Malcolm Gladwell and President Barack Obama introduce us to one of the most chaotic,complicated, and fascinating times in American history, revealing why Reconstruction stilldefines our country…
Malcolm Gladwell on Reconstruction’s Unfinished Questions
Jun 15, 2026
June 15, 1865. German-American statesman Carl Schurz is traveling to Washington to meet with President Andrew Johnson when he stops at a friend’s home in Philadelphia. That night, during a séance, a…
Why the Crusades Became Cool Again
Jun 08, 2026
June 8, 1191. The Crusaders and Muslim forces are locked in battle over the city of Acre. On one side is Saladin, the great Muslim leader who has already recaptured Jerusalem. On the other, an armada…
How Higgins and His Boats Won the War
Jun 01, 2026
June 6, 1944. As thousands of Allied soldiers prepare to storm the beaches of Normandy, they climb down rope nets into small wooden landing craft bobbing in the dark waters of the English Channel…