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This is one of my favorite history podcasts. Does anyone have any recommendations in a similar vein?

I'll chime in with History Time.

Ancient Mesopotamia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mAWItV2q0

Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2].

For video content of a similar feel, Historia Civilis[3] is hard to beat.

[0]: revolutionspodcast.com [1]: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ [2]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis

Maybe not too similar, but still in the same ballpark: The History of Philosophy without any gaps. [0] Especially the series on islamic and indian philosophy is very well researched, easy to listen to and quite illuminating. If I'm not mistaken the author, Peter Adamson is a professor without teaching obligations due to the workload associated with the podcast.

[0] https://historyofphilosophy.net/

I wish I did. One thing I've noticed about most of English-language history is the fact that there's so little African, Asian, and pre-Columbian American coverage. There are so many cultures between them, and I feel like everything is oriented towards the Mediterranian, Greeks, Romans, Medieval Europe.

But having read Graeber, Mann, Diamond, Harari, and Reich among others and some historical cultural stuff, I'm lusting for more non-Western history. Even Russia is a black hole to me pre-realists. Anybody have recommendations for more exotic stuff?

Shadows of Utopia is a really good Cambodian history podcast.

Tides of History likes to cover African/Asian/Precolumbian a lot.

Highly recommend both.

Not pre-Columbian, but the Iroquois history and legends podcast https://www.longhousepodcast.com/episodes also tells about less well known history.

On YouTube, there's the World War 2 channel which is doing WW2 chronologically in great detail, and The Great War channel ( same presenter originally, Indy Neidell) which did WW1 and consequences. Both have some spinoffs on their secondary channels ( TimeGhost for WW2 and Realtime History for TGW) about subjects as diverse as the Indonesian war of independence, Russo-Japanese war, Franco-Prussian war, etc. Both have great well researched content week by week, with special episodes focusing on special people, events, battles, doctrines, armaments, countries, etc., and in both cases listening is OK, even though the visuals, footage, pictures, maps, etc. are also quite interesting.

I love stuff like this. Thanks to the OP for suggesting this podcast, i'll be adding it to pocket casts.

As for history podcast suggestions, there are many decent podcasts for specifics historical eras or events. Here's a few of my favourites:

https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/

and old one but still an excellent:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id...

I have more on my phone, but they're specific to UK history (where i live).

I've not listened to first two in a while as I'm listen to a lot of history books via audible. But I've listened to the first 100 episodes of the Byzantium podcast and the Russian Revolution episodes in the Revolutions Podcast - both are really well researched and produced.

If any one loves listening to things about the rise/decline of civs I can recommend the audio book version of Oswald Spenglers Decline of the West:

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Decline-of-the-West-Audiobo...

I plan to read the book version at some point but it's a bit of a tomb. So thought I'd approach it via the audio book first to get a better idea of the main concepts before reading it.

And i'm currently reading Arnold J. Toynbee - A Study of History, which is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of civs. It adds a different point of view to Spenglers theory and work.

Hardcore history by Dan Carlin is the other big one

Tides of History is fantastic

"Dan Davis History" youtube channel, very well written. The bronze age, indoeuropean expansion, horse domestication, chariot warriors, mythology.. https://youtube.com/c/DanDavisAuthorChannel

I also like stefan milo https://m.youtube.com/c/StefanMilo

north02 is good,

The Historicrat is an excellent channel on YT, which delves deeply into the earliest settled societies. I'd recommend it as a counterpart to the Fall of Civilisations podcasts on Sumeria and the Bronze Age Collapse.

I'll do some shameless self-promotion and suggest my own:

The Song of Urania, a podcast about the history of astronomy

https://songofurania.com/about

Epic History TV.

Napoleonic Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OmO2YMiDM

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