Podcasts that feel like
Throughline
NPR · History · 508 episodes
The history hiding underneath the news.
If Throughline hit the spot, these will too
NPR · Society & Culture
NPR's other essential context machine
The difference: Race and identity now
Race and identity in America, reported with candor and nuance.
Sarah Marshall · History
The story behind the story
The difference: Conversational, wry
The stories the 90s got wrong, retold with humor and mercy.
Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture
The past, reconsidered
The difference: Essayistic
Malcolm Gladwell re-examines things overlooked and misunderstood, one contrarian story at a time.
Nate DiMeo · History
History in miniature
The difference: Six-minute gems
Tiny, gorgeous history miniatures that will wreck you in six minutes.
Audible · History
Eras brought to life
The difference: Dramatized
American history as immersive audio drama, one era per season.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast · History
The long view of power
The difference: Ancient collapses
Feature-length elegies for collapsed civilizations, gorgeous and devastating.
Audible / Patrick Wyman · History
shares that cerebral, epic feel
Deep history from the Ice Age forward, written by an actual historian.
Goalhanger · History
shares that cerebral, epic feel
How empires rise, rule, and rot, told by two great raconteurs.
Mike Duncan · History
shares that cerebral, epic feel
Every great revolution, narrated with clarity from first spark to final purge.
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