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• Podcasts

  • Hardcore History Podcast In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This isn't academic history (and Carlin isn't a historian) but the podcast's unique blend of high drama, masterful narration, and Twilight Zone-style twists has entertained millions of listeners. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

    When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.

    1. Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI 05:45:52
    2. Show 66 - Supernova in the East V 03:32:34
  • BBC World Service Witness History Podcast History as told by the people who were there. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    The birth of Karaoke - Witness History

    Daisuke Inoue was playing keyboards in a band in Kobe, Japan, when he invented the Karaoke machine in 1971. He had a customer who wanted to impress business clients by singing along to his favourite songs. Ashley Byrne spoke to Daisuke Inoue about his invention in 2015. (Photo: A group of women sing karaoke. Credit: Getty Images)

    1. The birth of Karaoke 09:39
    2. Japan's Bullet Train 08:58
  • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Podcast Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Doggerland (Summer Repeat) - In Our Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the people, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, now called Doggerland after Dogger Bank, inhabited up to c7000BC or roughly 3000 years before the beginnings of Stonehenge. There are traces of this landscape at low tide, such as the tree stumps at Redcar (above); yet more is being learned from diving and seismic surveys which are building a picture of an ideal environment for humans to hunt and gather, with rivers and wooded hills. Rising seas submerged this land as glaciers melted, and the people and animals who lived there moved to higher ground, with the coasts of modern-day Britain on one side and Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France on the other. With Vince Gaffney Anniversary Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford Carol Cotterill Marine Geoscientist at the British Geological Survey And Rachel Bynoe Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton Producer: Simon Tillotson

    1. Doggerland (Summer Repeat) 54:03
    2. Automata (Summer Repeat) 52:14
  • BBC World Service The History Hour Podcast An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Darfur's ethnic war - The History Hour

    We hear about the start of the war in Darfur, through the eyes of a teenage boy whose life was changed when the Sudanese military allied to a local militia, the Janjaweed, laid waste to villages across the region, killing and raping as they went. We hear from a survivor of Norway's worst day of terror, when a far-right extremist, Anders Breivik, launched a bomb attack on government offices and attacked a summer camp. Plus a story from our archives from a British army officer during World War Two who witnessed the end of Italy's colonial rule in East Africa during a final battle in the Ethiopian town of Gondar. From Brazil, the women's rights activist whose story of abuse inflicted by her husband inspired the country's first legislation recognising different forms of domestic violence in 2006. Lastly, the story of how the family of the artist Vincent Van Gogh worked to get him recognised as a great painter after he died penniless in 1890. Photo: A young Darfurian refugee walks past a Sudan Liberation Army Land Rover filled with teenage rebel fighters on October 14 2004 in the violent North Darfur region of Sudan. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images)

    1. Darfur's ethnic war 50:19
    2. When the Taliban ruled Kabul 50:08
  • BBC World Service Witness History Podcast History as told by the people who were there. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    'I just wanted to be white' - Witness History: Witness Black History

    In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, thousands of children were born to white German women and black American soldiers who were stationed in Allied-occupied Germany. The mixed-race infants were viewed with contempt by many Germans and endured constant abuse and racism. Black activist and author Ika Hügel-Marshall was one of the so-called "occupation babies". She tells Mike Lanchin about the painful struggle to discover her own identity as a result of the racism she experienced growing up black in post-war Germany. Photo: Ika as a young girl (Courtesy of Ika Hügel-Marshall)

    1. 'I just wanted to be white' 10:34
    2. Nasa's pioneering black women 08:57
  • BBC Radio 4 Homeschool History Podcast Fun history lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories' Greg Jenner. Full of facts and jokes, the series brings to life a broad range of historical topics. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Mary Seacole - Homeschool History

    Join Greg Jenner for a fun Homeschool History lesson on the life of Mary Seacole. Follow her adventures as she travels the world in her ambition to always care for others. From life as the daughter of a hotelier in Jamaica to owner of the famous British Hotel in Crimea, where she volunteered to set up a business caring for injured soldiers, earning her the name Mother Seacole. The Athletic production for BBC Radio 4

    1. Mary Seacole 13:11
    2. Life in Roman Pompeii 12:55
  • HISTORY This Week Podcast This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Jesse Owens Takes Germany - HISTORY This Week

    August 1, 1936. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Adolf Hitler enters the stadium to a militaristic Wagner march. Swastikas flutter everywhere on the flag of the Nazi Party. When these moments are remembered later, one athlete’s name comes up more than any other: Jesse Owens. He’s a Black American sprinter, a legendary athlete, and one of 18 Black Americans who competed in Hitler’s Olympics. How, through these 1936 Games, does this one man become mythologized? And what is the forgotten context of his storied Olympic wins?Special thanks to Damion Thomas, curator of sports for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Deborah Riley Draper, director and writer of Olympic Pride, American Prejudice; and Mark Dyreson, director of research and educational programs for the Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    1. Jesse Owens Takes Germany 28:41
    2. Fiddling with the Truth 28:08
  • HISTORY It Was Said Podcast Written and narrated by Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Jon Meacham It Was Said tells the stories of those crucial words, taking listeners back to inflection points ranging from the McCarthy era to our present time through the real-time rhetoric that shaped and suffused America as the country struggled through storm and strife. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Presenting Hope, Through History Season Two - It Was Said

    Welcome back to a new season of the C13Originals critically acclaimed Hope, Through History documentary limited series. Narrated and written by Pulitzer Prize Winning and Best Selling Historian, Jon Meacham, Season Two explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, how this nation dealt with the impact of these moments, and how we came through these moments a more unified nation. Season Two, presented by C13Originals, in association with The HISTORY® Channel, will guide you through the Battle of Gettysburg and its impact on the future of the country, the relationship between FDR and Churchill and America’s slow walk to war, the plan for AIDS relief, the sinking of the Lusitania and events impact on the future of America, and Bloody Sunday and the Voting Rights Act. As Winston Churchill once remarked, “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope”—the hope that human ingenuity, reason, and character can combine to save us from the abyss and keep us on a path, in another phrase of Churchill’s, to broad, sun-lit uplands. Welcome to Season Two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1. Presenting Hope, Through History Season Two 01:56
    2. John F. Kennedy, A Summons To Service 36:14

• Articles

  • HISTORY This Day in History Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more. cancel
  • HISTORY Topics Browse history articles by topics. cancel
  • On History News, articles & research from the Institute of Historical Research On History is a digital magazine produced by the Institute of Historical Research, the UK’s national centre for the study of history. Our aim is to publish accessible and engaging articles that reflect on contemporary issues facing our discipline and deepen public understandings of the past. We commission content from leading scholars, historians, early career researchers and students, and host interviews, podcasts and multimedia content curated as special ‘features’ for our site. cancel

• Essentials

  • HISTORY To Know History Is to Know Life. Watch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. cancel
    
  • Susan Wise Bauer The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. cancel
  • Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples.
    
    "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates cancel
  • Amazon Kindle E-readers Kindle E-readers are designed as dedicated eBook readers. Indulge your love of reading without interruptions like email alerts and push notifications. They can hold thousands of books to keep you entertained for hours. Use dictionary lookup to extend your vocabulary, Wikipedia lookup to enrich your knowledge and instant translations to practice a second language. cancel
    
  • Amazon Best History Books Online shopping for Books from a great selection of Europe, Americas, World, Military, Asia, Historical Study & Educational Resources & more at everyday low prices. cancel
  • Amazon Free Kindle Reading Apps Turn your phone or tablet into a book with the free Kindle app. Read anytime, anywhere on your phone, tablet, or computer. Go beyond paper with immersive, built-in features. Use dictionary lookup to extend your vocabulary, Wikipedia lookup to enrich your knowledge and instant translations to practice a second language. cancel
    

• Courses

  • Crash Course World History In 42 episodes, John Green will begin teaching you the history of the world! This course is based on the 2012 AP World History curriculum, from growing the first crops in the First Agricultural Revolution to global textile production in the 2010s. cancel
  • Crash Course World History 2 In 30 episodes, John Green rethinks world history! In round two we take a different approach and try to think more thematically rather than chronologically. This material is based on the 2018 AP World History curriculum and expands on Crash Course World History 1. cancel
  • HISTORY HISTORY Classroom HISTORY Classroom offers resources for teachers, parents, and students including education guides, learning tools, and links to educational content. cancel
  • HISTORY HISTORY at Home HISTORY at Home provides an opportunity to explore core history topics. cancel
  • Memrise Courses for History on Memrise The fun and effective way to learn and practice History vocabulary. Courses for English speakers. cancel

• Blogs

  • HISTORY History Stories
  • The History Blog It’s a blog. About history. So I was sifting through reams of Google News Alerts, slightly miffed that there wasn’t some nice, handy blog that had already done all the sifting for me, when it struck me like the proverbial bolt of lightning that non-laziness is an actual option. Hell, if I’m doing it for myself, why not post the products for all my brothers and sisters in history nerddom? cancel
  • Hisdoryan Because it's okay to live in the past Looking for a fun, relevant and accessible history blog that proves that history doesnt always belong in the past? Then step this way - the Hisdoryan blog is just what you need! cancel

• Websites

  • Amazon.com History - Kindle eBooks Online shopping for Kindle Store from a great selection of Americas, Europe, Military, Historical Study, World, Social & Cultural & more at everyday low prices. cancel
  • Historum History Forum Founded in 2006, Historum is a history forum dedicated to history discussions and historical events. Our community welcomes everyone from around the world to discuss world history, historical periods, and themes in history - military history, archaeology, arts and culture, and history in books and movies cancel

• Near You

  • Meetup History groups Meet others in your local area interested in History. Whether it's local, national or world history, join together with other history buffs and discuss your favorite place and time in history! cancel