The Weird History Podcast

Crystal King is a long-time friend of the program, and has appeared previously to talk abo... more

[A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War] (https://www.blacks... more

By all reasonable metrics Shek Yeung, who raided the South China Sea in the early 1800s, i... more

William Shakespeare seems to have hated hedgehogs. We don’t quite know why, but it c... more

Before Valentine’s Day, ancient Romans celebrated a festival of fertility in the sha... more

During the Dust Bowl city officials in Los Angeles, fueled by anti-communist paranoia and ... more

Eric Tagliacozzo is a professor of history at Cornell University, and his new book [In Asi... more

Archaeology has changed considerably over the past century. In this episode, we spoke with... more

After his death in 1945, Mussolini’s corpse was autopsied and thrown into a pauper&#... more

The Marvel Universe is massive. Marvel comics go back well over half a century, and span t... more

In 1907 French waiters went on strike, and won the right to wear facial hair.

Nearly every English-language movie has a disclaimer in the credits that says something li... more

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Covid-19 has killed and sickened hundreds of thousands of people, and transformed our econ... more

The Mexican-American War was not fought for good reasons. The war was one of imperial and ... more