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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 24, 2026

Best History Podcasts

The top 100 History shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending History episodes

The episodes everyone is playing today. Tap to listen.

#1

The Pedlar and the Witch | Halloween Season

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 39 min

#2

King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4)

The Rest Is History · 1 h 06 min

#3

Halloween Listener Special

You're Wrong About · 1 h 01 min

#4

The dramatic race to discover Insulin

Throughline · 37 min

#5

Lore Alive 4: Peg & Button

Lore · 25 min

#6

CRIME: Danny Rolling: The Killer Who Inspired Scream

Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes · 43 min

#7

Ancient Rome's Biggest Sex Scandal

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 47 min

#8

Origins of Constantinople

The Ancients · 58 min

#9

Battle of Agincourt

Gone Medieval · 1 h 08 min

#10

The World in the Year 1

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More · 15 min

#11

Sweden’s Secret Army

School of War · 49 min

#12

Boris Pasternak Wins The Nobel Prize

History Daily · 17 min

New in History

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

▲ 1 2

The Team House

dee takos

▼ 1 3

World War II with Tom Hanks

The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy

— 4

History's Greatest Mysteries

The HISTORY Channel | Rewind Studios

— 5

The Ancients

History Hit

— 6

Throughline

NPR

— 7

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

▲ 4 8

American Scandal

Audible

▼ 1 9

American History Tellers

Audible

— 10

In Our Time

BBC Radio 4

▲ 2 11

History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

▼ 1 12

Sleepy History

Slumber Studios

▲ 2 13

What the Fact with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy

Rewind Studios

▼ 5 14

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Dan Carlin

▼ 1 15

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

▲ 6 16

Gone Medieval

History Hit

▲ 3 17

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

▲ 11 18

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

— 19

History Daily

History Daily

▲ 1 20

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

▼ 3 21

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

▼ 6 22

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries

▲ 22 23

The Rest Is Classified

Goalhanger

▼ 7 24

Short History Of...

NOISER

▼ 2 25

Revolutions

Mike Duncan

— 26

American History Hit

History Hit

▼ 2 27

Conspiracy Theories

Spotify Studios

▼ 4 28

You're Dead to Me

BBC Radio 4

▲ 3 29

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

▼ 2 30

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

▲ 4 31

Empire: World History

Goalhanger

▼ 5 32

Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

Crime House

▲ 6 33

Real Dictators

NOISER

▼ 4 34

The History of Rome

Mike Duncan

▲ 5 35

John Kiriakou's Dead Drop

John Kiriakou & Alan Katz

▼ 3 36

Not Just the Tudors

History Hit

— 37

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

— 38

Celebrity Ghost Stories

A&E | Rewind Studios

▼ 8 39

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger

▲ 2 40

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

▼ 5 41

Gunfighters

MeatEater

▼ 8 42

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

▲ 1 43

HISTORY This Week

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios

▲ 3 44

The Art Bell Archive

Arthur William Bell III

▲ 6 45

The Spy Who

Audible

▲ 2 46

Dark History

Audioboom Studios

▼ 1 47

Founding Fathers: An American Dream

NOISER

▼ 5 48

HistoryExtra podcast

Immediate

▲ 9 49

Ask Haviv Anything

Haviv Rettig Gur

▼ 9 50

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

▲ 1

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Top History podcasts today

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