History & Social Studies Podcast Resources: Podcasts

"collective reporting on American history with professional production, featuring Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly, and Joanne Freeman."

"a weekly look at three separate topics in the headlines, set in historical perspective. Featuring [historians] Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young."

"The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present." From NPR. Hosted by journalists Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei.

How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today.

From the producers of NPR's Radiolab, "a series about how the Supreme Court got so supreme." In addition to SC cases, it also includes episodes about specific Constitutional Amendments.

"America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turned into war. Hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika." From Gimlet Media. 2017 Peabody Award winner.

" As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a "people's museum" of personal objects, family photos and more. The Historically Black podcast brings those objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music."

Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s weekly civilized yet provocative confrontation over politics, policy and pop culture.

This podcast will draw on historical knowledge to inspire a contemporary democratic renaissance. The past offers hope for the present and the future, if only we can escape the negativity of our current moment — and each show will offer a serious way to do that!

Join Park Rangers, researchers, authors, and activists as we discuss what liberty and justice for all means on our public lands.

"Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made."

"Featuring interviews with notable historians on topics spanning ancient history through to recent British to American events." From the BBC.

"Since 2010, The China History Podcast, presented by Laszlo Montgomery presents over two hundred episodes of curated topics from China's antiquity to modern times."

Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

"The Annex is a podcast for academic sociologists. We discuss ideas, news, and research of interest to the academic sociology community." A project run by Joseph Nathan Cohen, Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College.

A podcast about markets, ideas, institutions, and all things related to the field of economics. Created & hosted by Gareth Petersen, PhD candidate in Economics at Simon Fraser University.

NPR's Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.

A concise and original introduction to a wide range of subjects— from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization —by the expert authors of the Very Short Introductions series. For wherever your curiosity may take you.