The AskHistorians Podcast
Hosted by Steelcan909 · The AskHistorians Mod Team
4.5from 151 ratings
- 280
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 151
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 126K
- YouTube views
About The AskHistorians Podcast
The AskHistorians Podcast showcases the knowledge and enthusiasm of the AskHistorians community, a forum of nearly 1.4 million history academics, professionals, amateurs, and curious onlookers. The aim is to be a resource accessible to a wide range of listeners for historical topics which so often go overlooked. Together, we have a broad array of people capable of speaking in-depth on topics that get half a page on Wikipedia, a paragraph in a high-school textbook, and not even a minute on the History channel. The podcast aims to give a voice (literally!) to those areas of history, while not neglecting the more commonly covered topics. Part of the drive behind the podcast is to be a counterpoint to other forms of popular media on history which only seem to cover the same couple of topics in the same couple of ways over and over again.
- Publisher
- The AskHistorians Mod Team
- Category
- education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Dec 2013
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 280 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 253: Dinosaurs in the Gilded Age
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 252: Robert E.C. Davis and the US Army Heliograph Networks
12 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
AskHistorian Podcast Episode 251: American Medieval
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 253: Dinosaurs in the Gilded Age
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So in fact, invertebrate paleontology, so like studying not dinosaurs, but seashells and things like that, ammonites. in many ways was more important for the kind of Renaissance that was happening in paleontology because you could use statistical and mathematical techniques to study evolutionary processes. So like how those competitive processes between organisms led to evolutionary change in the fossil record. But some of those ideas and some of those techniques were also applied to dinosaurs. And so there was a kind of Renaissance, not just in the study of invertebrate fossils, but also the study of dinosaurs. […]
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- Lukas Rieppel
- Robert EC Davis
- Matthew Gabriele
- Mary Ziegler
- HaloFreak1171
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 125,957
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 111 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 40 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Steelcan909 host the show. Published by The AskHistorians Mod Team.
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