History & Culture

History That Hits

Hosted by The Historian

Untold stories, pivotal moments, and fascinating characters that shaped the world we live in today.

62 Episodes

Episode Date Duration
The Girl in the Grease: Gertrude Ederle’s 14-Hour War with the Channel May 30, 2026 10 min The Cloth That Conquered England: The Bayeux Tapestry Comes to Britain May 18, 2026 11 min The Mother Road at 100: Route 66 and the America That Learned to Move May 16, 2026 10 min Sun Writing: The Faint Window View That Invented Photography May 15, 2026 9 min Where the Girl Saved Her Brother: Little Bighorn at 150 and the Battle America Misremembered May 14, 2026 10 min The First Pandemic: What 230 Bodies in a Roman Racetrack Reveal About the Plague That Changed History May 10, 2026 12 min Nine Days That Shook Britain: The 1926 General Strike Turns 100 May 8, 2026 10 min The Flight That Conquered the Arctic—and Destroyed a Friendship: The Norge Expedition Turns 100 May 7, 2026 10 min The Weapons in the Well: A Cenote Reveals the Forgotten Maya War That Almost Destroyed Mexico May 6, 2026 9 min The Coins That Never Stopped Beeping: Norway's Largest Viking Hoard and the Forgotten Iron Kings of Østerdalen May 5, 2026 10 min The Towns That Died Together: The Pals Battalions and the First Day of the Somme Apr 30, 2026 9 min The 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint: When Did Neanderthals Become Artists? Apr 29, 2026 10 min A Neanderthal Family Portrait: DNA Reveals a Community Frozen in Time Apr 28, 2026 11 min The Man Who Saved the World: Stanislav Petrov and the 26 Minutes That Almost Ended Everything Apr 27, 2026 10 min The Eleven Days That Vanished: Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance Turns 100 Apr 26, 2026 9 min The Scream of the Carnyx: A Celtic War Trumpet Emerges from English Soil Apr 23, 2026 10 min Rolling the Bones: How Native Americans Invented Dice 12,000 Years Ago Apr 22, 2026 10 min The Canoe Parking Lot: 5,000 Years of Indigenous History Beneath a Wisconsin Lake Apr 19, 2026 11 min The Invisible Killers: How DNA Revealed What Really Destroyed Napoleon's Army Apr 18, 2026 9 min The Fingerprint That Rewrote Prehistory: When a Neanderthal Made Art Apr 16, 2026 9 min The Man Who Didn't Salute: August Landmesser's Defiance Apr 15, 2026 9 min The Hidden Passage: Manhattan's Secret Stop on the Underground Railroad Apr 14, 2026 11 min Alexander's Lost City: Rediscovering the Forgotten Capital of Ancient Global Trade Apr 11, 2026 11 min The Princess Who Whispered 'Liberté': Noor Inayat Khan's Secret War Apr 10, 2026 12 min Ten Days in a Mad-House: How One Woman's Deception Changed Mental Healthcare Forever Apr 7, 2026 9 min Chernobyl at 40: The Liquidators Who Walked Into the Invisible Fire Apr 3, 2026 11 min Dance 'Til You Drop: The Mysterious Plague That Made a Town Dance to Death Apr 2, 2026 9 min The Boy Who Survived the Lion: Ancient Care in the Copper Age Apr 1, 2026 9 min 67,800 Years in the Making: The Cave Art That Rewrites Human History Mar 31, 2026 10 min The Forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering Alexander the Great's Lost City on the Tigris Mar 30, 2026 11 min The Man The New York Times Mocked: How Robert Goddard's 2.5-Second Flight Changed Everything Mar 29, 2026 11 min The JFK Files: What 80,000 Pages Finally Revealed About Mexico, the CIA, and the Limits of Truth Mar 28, 2026 9 min The Limping Lady: How a One-Legged Spy Became the Gestapo's Most Wanted Mar 27, 2026 11 min The Gambler Who Built an Empire: Babur and the Battle That Changed Asia Mar 25, 2026 10 min Before Stonehenge: The 12,000-Year-Old Temples Rewriting Human History Mar 24, 2026 11 min Black Moses: Edward P. McCabe's Dream of an All-Black American State Mar 24, 2026 12 min 1776 to 2026: What the Founders Got Right, Wrong, and Never Imagined Mar 22, 2026 11 min The Voice That Terrified Rome: The Norfolk Carnyx Discovery and Boudica's Ghost Mar 21, 2026 11 min Stagecoach Mary: The Gun-Toting, Cigar-Smoking Grandmother Who Conquered the Wild West Mar 20, 2026 9 min The $24 Myth: What Really Happened When the Dutch 'Bought' Manhattan 400 Years Ago Mar 19, 2026 8 min The Nine Months Before Rosa Parks: Claudette Colvin and the Strategic Erasure of a Teenage Hero Mar 17, 2026 11 min CROATOAN: How DNA Cracked America's Oldest Cold Case Mar 16, 2026 10 min Cleopatra's Party Boat: The Sunken Pleasure Barge That Reveals Egypt's Lost Luxury Mar 12, 2026 14 min The Cave Dwellers Who Vanished: Spain's Hidden Medieval Underground Society Mar 11, 2026 10 min When the Hobbits Died: The Climate Catastrophe That Ended a Human Species Mar 10, 2026 10 min America at 250: The Untold Story of Independence Day Mar 6, 2026 10 min The Forgotten Pharaoh: How the Discovery of Thutmose II's Tomb Rewrites Egyptian History Mar 4, 2026 9 min The Telegram That Pulled America Into War Mar 4, 2026 10 min Pompeii's Secret Cult: The Dionysian Mysteries Revealed After 2,000 Years Mar 3, 2026 11 min Before Stonehenge: Scotland's 6,000-Year-Old Timber Halls Hidden Beneath a School Playground Mar 2, 2026 12 min The Real Christopher Robin: The Dark Side of a Beloved Story Mar 2, 2026 10 min When Writing Began: The 40,000-Year-Old Symbols That Rewrote Human History Mar 1, 2026 13 min The Day Iceland Stopped: How 90% of Women Changed a Nation Forever Mar 1, 2026 11 min The First Story Ever Told: How Tiny Stone Animals in Turkey Reveal Humanity's Oldest Narrative Feb 9, 2026 12 min The Dancing Plague: When a Town Danced to Death Feb 8, 2026 11 min Secrets Frozen in Ash: The Pompeii Discovery That Reveals Rome's Forbidden Cult Feb 7, 2026 13 min 160,000 Years Ahead of Their Time: How Ancient Toolmakers in China Are Rewriting Human History Feb 7, 2026 13 min The AI That's Rewriting the Bible: How 'Enoch' Is Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls Feb 7, 2026 12 min Twelve Days of Fire: The Hungarian Revolution the World Forgot Feb 7, 2026 12 min The City That Rose When Caral Fell: Peñico and the Oldest Civilization in the Americas Feb 6, 2026 16 min The Forgotten Heroes of Yorktown: America's First Black Regiment Feb 5, 2026 15 min The Moon Man Who Changed Everything: Robert Goddard's Century-Old Dream Takes Flight Feb 5, 2026 15 min