History Ignited
Hosted by Caroline and Amy and Andrew and Dave · History Ignited | Family Podcasts & History
4.5from 54 ratings
- 123
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 54
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 5K
- YouTube views
About History Ignited
Teach kids history. Prevent repeats. Winner of the 2025 Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Kids and Family Podcast, History Ignited is hosted by 12-year-old Andrew, 10-year-old Caroline, and their parents, Amy and Dave. Together they turn every lyric from Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire into a fun, bite-sized history story kids will actually remember.
- Publisher
- History Ignited | Family Podcasts & History
- Category
- history · kids & family · kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Jun 2024
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 123 episodes have a transcript.
10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Begin: The Militant, the Peacemaker, and the Paradox
3 Oct 2026
Punk Rock: The Loud, Fast Rebellion of '77 | The Kids History Podcast Inspired by Billy Joel
26 Sept 2026
Watergate: How a Hotel Break-In Changed History | The Kids History Podcast Inspired by Billy Joel
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Begin: The Militant, the Peacemaker, and the Paradox
Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But somehow I never questioned it. Anyway, we didn't have the internet back then. Well, this family does love bacon. But Billy Joel is actually saying bacon as in Menachem bacon. He was the Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. And Begin was one of the most important and complicated political figures of the era. And his story starts decades before he became Prime Minister. Begin was born in 1913 in Brest-Litovsk, a city that is now in Belarus. He grew up in a Jewish family and became a strong supporter of Zionism, the movement seeking a Jewish national homeland. War II completely changed his life. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,882
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 49 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 86
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts History Ignited?
Caroline and Amy and Andrew and Dave host the show. Published by History Ignited | Family Podcasts & History.
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