# Explaining History Podcast: Modern history podcasts for students and enthusiasts

> Discover the Explaining History Podcast: over a decade of carefully researched, accessible episodes that unpack major events in our time\.

Generated by Yoast SEO v27.9, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs.

## Pages
- [Listen by Topic](https://explaininghistory.org/best-history-podcasts/)
- [Best Podcasts on North Africa, Italy, and the End of the Second World War](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-north-africa-and-the-end-of-ww2/)
- [Best Podcasts on the War in the Pacific and Asia 1941–45](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-pacific-war/)
- [Best Podcasts on France at War: The Fall, Occupation, and Vichy 1939–51](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-france-vichy-and-the-occupation/)
- [Best Podcasts on Britain's War 1939–45](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-britains-war-1939-45/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Eastern Front and Operation Barbarossa](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-eastern-front/)
- [How to Think About History: Approaches, Methods \& Ideology](https://explaininghistory.org/history-approaches-and-ideology/)
- [Best Podcasts on Syria](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-syria/)
- [The Balkans \& the Yugoslav Wars](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-balkans-and-the-yugoslav-wars/)
- [Best Podcasts on Africa: Colonialism and Independence](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-africa-colonialism-and-independence/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Arab\-Israeli Conflict \& Palestine](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-arab-israeli-conflict/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Ottoman Empire and its Collapse](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-ottoman-empire/)
- [Best Podcasts on India: Partition and Independence](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-india-partition-and-independence/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Vietnam War \& American Foreign Policy \| Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-vietnam-war/)
- [Best Podcasts on the American Civil Rights Movement](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-civil-rights-movement/)
- [Best Podcasts on the British Empire and Decolonisation](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-british-empire-and-decolonisation/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Holocaust](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-holocaust/)
- [Best Podcasts on Weimar Germany and the Rise of Nazism](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-weimar-germany-and-the-rise-of-nazism/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Russian Revolution \& Bolshevism \| Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-russian-revolution/)
- [Best Podcasts on the First World War](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-first-world-war/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Cold War](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-cold-war/)
- [Best Podcasts on Mao and China](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-mao-and-china/)
- [Best Podcasts on Post\-War America](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-post-war-america/)
- [Best Podcasts on Modern British History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-british-history/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Second World War](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-world-war-two/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Spanish Civil War](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-spanish-civil-war/)
- [Best Podcasts on the Iranian Revolution and Modern Iran: Essential Episodes from Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-the-iranian-revolution/)
- [Best Podcasts on Neoliberalism and Thatcherism: Essential Episodes from Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-neoliberalism/)
- [Best Podcasts on Fascism: Essential Episodes from Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-fascism/)
- [Best Podcasts on Stalin and the Soviet Union: Essential Episodes from Explaining History](https://explaininghistory.org/best-podcasts-on-stalin-and-the-soviet-union/)

## Posts
- [Mamdani, Corbyn and the Fear of a Popular Left](https://explaininghistory.org/2026/07/01/mamdani-corbyn-and-the-fear-of-a-popular-left/)
- [The Attlee Government's Nationalisation Programme: Taking Control of the Commanding Heights](https://explaininghistory.org/2026/06/24/the-attlee-governments-nationalisation-programme-taking-control-of-the-commanding-heights/)
- [What Bin Laden Wanted: America's Wars After September 11](https://explaininghistory.org/2026/06/19/what-bin-laden-wanted-americas-wars-after-september-11/): On the morning of 11 September 2001, nineteen men boarded four commercial aircraft on the east coast of the United States and turned them into weapons\. By the time the day was over, nearly 3,000 people were dead, two of the most recognisable buildings in the world had collapsed, and the most powerful government on earth had begun the process of deciding what it would do in response\. The decisions it made over the following months and years reshaped the world in ways that are still being reckoned with\.
- [The Grammar the Blues Built: Black Music and the Century It Made](https://explaininghistory.org/2026/06/19/the-grammar-the-blues-built-black-music-and-the-century-it-made/): The twentieth century produced more kinds of music than any previous era, and the proliferation was not random\. Each major genre that emerged — gospel, blues, jazz, country, R\&B, soul, reggae, hip\-hop, electronic music — arose from a specific social location, carried specific values and grievances, and tracked the history of the communities that created it with a fidelity that no other art form matched\. Popular music was not the accompaniment to the social history of the century\. In many respects, it was the most accurate record of it\.
- [The Cat That Caught the Mice: China's Revolution After Mao](https://explaininghistory.org/2026/06/19/the-cat-that-caught-the-mice-chinas-revolution-after-mao/): In 1978, the People's Republic of China was one of the poorest countries in the world\. Its economy had been devastated by the convulsions of the Maoist era — the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution — and its population of nearly a billion people had a per capita income comparable to sub\-Saharan Africa\. Forty years later, China was the world's second\-largest economy, the largest manufacturer, the largest trading nation, and a military and technological power whose capacities no other country could ignore\. The transformation was without precedent in the history of economic development\.

## Glossary
- [Domino Theory](https://explaininghistory.org/?glossary=domino-theory-2)
- [Dresden Bombing](https://explaininghistory.org/?glossary=dresden-bombing)
- [Dien Bien Phu](https://explaininghistory.org/?glossary=dien-bien-phu-2)
- [Dual Power](https://explaininghistory.org/?glossary=dual-power)
- [Emergency Law](https://explaininghistory.org/?glossary=emergency-law)

## Categories
- [Podcast: European History](https://explaininghistory.org/category/podcast-european-history/)
- [Podcast](https://explaininghistory.org/category/podcast/)
- [Modern History](https://explaininghistory.org/category/modern-history/)
- [Military History](https://explaininghistory.org/category/military-history/)
- [European History](https://explaininghistory.org/category/european-history/)

## Tags
- [podcastimport](https://explaininghistory.org/tag/podcastimport/)
- [AQA Germany Democracy and Dictatorship essay help](https://explaininghistory.org/tag/aqa-germany-democracy-and-dictatorship-essay-help/)
- [how to get an A\-star in AQA Germany history](https://explaininghistory.org/tag/how-to-get-an-a-star-in-aqa-germany-history/)
- [how to get an A\-star in AQA Russia history](https://explaininghistory.org/tag/how-to-get-an-a-star-in-aqa-russia-history/)
- [Afro Asian solidarity](https://explaininghistory.org/tag/afro-asian-solidarity/)

## Optional
- [Sitemap index](https://explaininghistory.org/sitemap_index.xml)