HISTORY This Week

Weekly episodes on historical moments that reshaped the world AI summary

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios Visit website › History · EN · 359 episodes · latest 2026-11-09

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Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content!This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com.HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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Route 66 Goes on the Run

2026-11-09 · 31 min · Season 8, episode 7

November 11, 1926. The country’s state highway officials meet to give America’s roads numbers, and a patchwork of dirt, gravel and wooden planks running from Chicago to Los Angeles becomes Route 66. Two years later,…
How Biddy Mason Found Her Freedom in Los Angeles

2026-11-02 · 32 min · Season 8, episode 6

November 8, 1864. Election Day. Abraham Lincoln watches from a White House window, convinced he might lose. Three thousand miles away in Los Angeles, a Confederate hotbed in a so-called free state, Biddy Mason has more…
Salem’s First Witch Trial

2026-10-30 · 29 min

Happy Halloween! Today, we're bringing back a particularly spooky episode from the archives...June 10, 1692. Bridget Bishop is loaded into a two-wheeled cart and brought from her Salem jail cell to a pasture on a hill,…
1066: The Brother Who Broke England (w/ Greg Jenner)

2026-10-26 · 29 min · Season 8, episode 5

October 28, 1065. The king’s council meets in Oxford and throws a man out of England. His name is Tostig Godwinson, and the north of England already hates him. His own brother Harold, the most powerful earl in the realm…
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2026-10-23 · 2 min

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Venus, Earth’s Evil Twin

2026-10-19 · 34 min

October 22, 1975. After traveling millions of miles through space, a Soviet spacecraft plunges through thick clouds of sulfuric acid to land on Venus. Its goal: take a photograph of another planet’s surface and send it…
Audubon’s Birds Come Home to Roost

2026-10-12 · 33 min · Season 8, episode 4

October 12, 1820. John James Audubon—a failed shopkeeper, grist miller, and steamboat investor—sets off from Cincinnati on a flatboat down the Ohio River. He is bankrupt. The bank has taken everything except his…
The Freemasons Get Away With Murder (Probably)

2026-10-05 · 32 min · Season 8, episode 3

October 7, 1827. A body washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario. A Rochester newspaperman named Thurlow Weed believes he knows whose it is: William Morgan, a down-on-his-luck ex-Freemason who threatened to publish the…
Free preview: The Real Blackbeard (HTW+)

2026-10-02 · 7 min

A 5-min sample of our full interview about who Blackbeard really was, and the truth behind his pirate friends. Subscribe to HTW+ at htwpod.com or in your Apple Podcasts app to unlock full behind-the-scenes episodes.Eric…
How Did Nixon Fumble the First TV Debate?

2026-09-28 · 31 min · Season 8, episode 2

September 26, 1960. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon meet in a CBS studio in Chicago for the first televised debate between presidential nominees. Kennedy arrives tan, relaxed, and fully prepped. Nixon arrives with a…

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Owner: The HISTORY® Channel
Oldest episode in feed: 01/2020 · over 6 years
Typical length: 29 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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