The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

139 Rosenstrasse

Posted October 6, 2017 • 00:22:13

In February of 1943 the Nazi regime arrested between 1500-2000 Jewish men in Berlin, and imprisoned them in a former Jewish community center with the...

September

Posted September 4, 2017 • 00:03:34

Find out why I’m taking September (mostly) off.

138 Confederate Statues

Posted August 22, 2017 • 00:19:55

Confederate statues have been in the news lately. Memorials always reflect the time they were built in moreso than the time they commemorate, and the...

137 Isaac Newton and the Cat Door

Posted August 7, 2017 • 00:18:07

Popular legend holds that Isaac Newton invented not only calculus, but also the cat door. Unfortunately, this colorful legend is not supported by good...

136 Durer’s Rhinoceros

Posted July 31, 2017 • 00:17:56

For almost three hundred years Europeans were not entirely sure what rhinos looked like. The most popular image of the beast was a print made by Albrecht...