The best History podcasts to listen to in 2026

March 28, 2026 — Today is National Something on a Stick Day, which feels like proof that if you put food on a stick, people will suddenly be much more excited about eating it.Today...

For our 13th Episode, we are taking a look at perhaps the unluckiest man there ever was, in the true story of Roy Sullivan, the Spark Ranger or Human Lightning Rod. Between 1942 a...

Send us a message. We would love to hear from you and your spooky stories by emailing at banteringbanshees@gmail.com We are slipping into the shadows to read chilling real life par...

Tracy dives into the history of sex work in the settlement of the Canadian prairies. Here she talks about how sex workers were foundational to the economic and cultural function of...

When disaster strikes, leaders have one job: show up. In this episode of This, Again, Mallory Faust unpacks three centuries of leaders who failed the optics test - from Marie Antoi...

Once known to the Romans as Arabia Felix – Blessed Arabia – The lands of present-day Yemen were famed for their wealth, incense, and prosperity. In our very first episode, we journ...

Send us a message. We would love to hear from you and your spooky stories by emailing at banteringbanshees@gmail.com Perched high above the town of Proctor, Wilson Castle rises lik...

Send us a text A headlining tour, a hit record, and a tired airplane came together over Mississippi—and the result reshaped rock history. We trace Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 crash from ...

In Part One of a two-part series on the Athens Marathon, Emily and Cam dive into ancient Greek legend and history as they explore the origins of the modern marathon race. They disc...

History for the Reckoning is a podcast that dives deep into the history that’s hard to hear, but critical to understand. Each season is devoted to understanding a piece of history ...

This episode was re-recorded and re-uploaded on 04/03/2023 30-JULY-1943 Serving as a Stretcher Bearer in the 2/5th Infantry Battalion Second Australian Imperial Force, Cpl Leslie ...

In the 1980s, a strange new box arrived in our living rooms — the VHS player. It was noisy, chunky, and occasionally tried to eat your favourite film… but it changed everything.In ...

Send a text A window shatters at 32,000 feet, oxygen masks fall, and a 737 lurches into a violent roll. We walk through the harrowing chain of events aboard Southwest Flight 1380, ...

In this episode, we dive into the wild, worldwide PR machine known as Hasbara, Israel's official strategy to shape global opinion, rewrite narratives, and "explain" things that pro...

Étienne Brûlé was one of the most important young men in the early days of New France. He acted as an interpreter and liaison between the Wendat Confederacy and the French traders ...

From Baroda’s treasure rooms to Sotheby’s glass cases, from the Mona Lisa stolen in 1911 to a daylight jewel heist at the Louvre in 2025, this is a story about ego, erasure, and th...

Episode 15 of The Oddities Department cracks open another tour of historical chaos. This week’s tour contains six stories that are equal parts fascinating, horrifying, and deeply, ...

Send us a text A silent ship in open water, a missing crew, and a century of wild theories—this is the story that made “ghost ship” part of our vocabulary. We pull the lens wide, s...