The Weird History Podcast

The Weird History Podcast explores the out-of-the-way, obscure, weird, and overlooked corners of history. New episodes appear every Thursday.

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148 In Which Your Christmas Decorations Are Wrong and Spain is Into Some Weird Stuff

Posted December 18, 201700:15:47

The Nativity scene is an iconic Christmas decoration, but it only has a tenuous biblical foundation. Christmas traditions are often varied and strange,...

147 David Goldfield on The Gifted Generation

Posted December 11, 201700:39:07

David Goldfield is an American historian and the author of almost twenty books. His latest, The Gifted Generation, chronicles the benefits that his...

146 The Lost City of Vanport

Posted December 6, 201700:18:56

This episode is a little different. It’s about a topic that I’ve previously written and spoken about, though not on the podcast. Vanport was one...

145 Bonnie MacBird on Unquiet Spirits

Posted November 27, 201700:25:50

Bonnie MacBird (the co-writer of Tron) is writing new, novel-length Sherlock Holmes adventures. We talked about her experience with Conan Doyle’s...

Thankful

Posted November 23, 201700:02:52

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I couldn’t do this without you.