History That Doesn't Suck
HTDS is a bi-weekly podcast, delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard-hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. To keep up with History That Doesn’t Suck news, check us out htdspodcast.com or...
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- Lindsey Cormack2 eps
- Sara J. Bloomfield1 ep
- Professor Lindsey Cormack1 ep
Also: Steve Twomey, Ben Sawyer, Bob Crawford, Colleen Shogan, Lindsay Graham, Professor Greg Jackson, Captain Mac Caldwell
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- 🇺🇸United States · HistoryHOME#14355K to 1.9M
- 🇧🇷Brazil · History#503.7K to 19K
- 🇨🇦Canada · History#641.7K to 9.1K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · History#121770 to 4.1K
- 🇵🇱PL · History#57476 to 2.5K
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364K to 1.9M🎙 Biweekly cadence·231 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
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519K to 2.7M🇺🇸98%🇧🇷1% - Active Followers
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208K to 1.1M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/19/26 | 214: D-Day, Part I: From the First Quebec Conference to June 5, 1944 | “Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade.”This is the story of the preparations for D-Day. In November, 1943 the “Big Three”–that is, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin–meet in person for the first time to discuss launching an Operation “Overlord,” a cross-channel invasion of Nazi-held France. With the leaders’ go-ahead, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower doubles down. As fighting continues in the Mediterranean theater, Ike works to gather sufficient men, supplies, and landing equipment, but it’s no easy feat. As 1943 turns into 1944, more than 1.4 million American troops arrive in Great Britain for training. The men face extreme weather conditions, equipment malfunction, and maybe even friendly fire during training? Yeah, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows on the southern coast of Merry England, especially as the weather forecast for the planned attack of France looks atrocious. Will Ike and his men be able to pull off what’s gearing up to be the largest amphibious invasion in history?____Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com andgo deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendationsjoin discussions in our Facebook communitycome see a live showget HTDS merchor become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks.HTDS is part of Audacy media network.Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com | 1h 00m 39s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 | 213: Halloween Special VI: The ASEs & Guy de Maupassant | “‘What is that?' I asked. The Englishman answered calmly: 'It was my best enemy.’”This is the story of the little books that went to war, and the Frenchman whose ghosts we'll read by their light.In 1943, a consortium of American publishers began slipping pocket-sized paperbacks into the hands of GIs bound overseas: the Armed Services Editions. More than 120 million of these ASEs were printed by the war’s end, and they turned up everywhere: foxholes, troopships, field hospitals, and more. In fact, we’ll meet one colonel who fondly remembers a soldier reading aloud to their gun crew while German 88s whistled in. The Germans tried to kill them as they laughed and enjoyed good writing. And among the 1,300-odd titles the program carried to the front were the works of a certain French master of the macabre: Guy de Maupassant. The Armed Services Edition gave GIs Maupassant the realist … but we’ll encounter two tales that reflect the Frenchman’s more ghoulish side.Happy Halloween.Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com andgo deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendationsjoin discussions in our Facebook communityget news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette come see a live showget HTDS merchor become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks.HTDS is part of Audacy media network.Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com | 42m 10s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  Bonus: GTDS: NASA and the Commercialization of Space | Following the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the government had to rethink space exploration. In 2006, NASA launched the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, allocating $500 million to encourage American entrepreneurs to develop cost-effective cargo and crew transport for the ISS. Today, private enterprises like SpaceX, Starlink, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are ubiquitous. Yet none of this progress would be possible without substantial government assistance.Joining us is Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society and one of the world's foremost experts on NASA's budget and the political economy of space exploration. His data-driven analysis has been cited by The New York Times, POLITICO, The Washington Post, and NPR, and in 2025 he received a SpaceNews Icon Award for his work. Casey joins us to unpack what the data actually shows about the tradeoffs of commercial spaceflight — and what's at stake if the government cedes too much control.The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too. Hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, Government That Doesn't Suck is a seriously researched, fact-driven podcast examining the dreams, machinery, and real-world impact behind American government, one episode at a time. | 1h 18m 25s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | 212: The European Theater, 1943 | "Wing Ding, you're either crazy as hell or you've got balls."This is the story of the European Theater in 1943.As Allied bombers learn the brutal cost of daylight precision raids over Ploesti and Schweinfurt, Allied armies fight their way onto the Italian mainland at Salerno, and the citizens of Naples rise to liberate themselves. Meanwhile, the U-boat is finally beaten back in the Atlantic, American Lend-Lease reaches a bleeding Soviet Union, and the tide turns in the East. And in occupied France, a fractured Resistance begins to cohere—thanks to the sacrifice of a hero named Jean Moulin—as Charles de Gaulle claims his place at the head of a nation not yet free.We'll meet a tail gunner who flew into hell without his parachute, a colonel who took his burning bomber over the target rather than break his word, a thirteen-year-old who took on a German tank, and an American spy hiding behind a wooden leg and a wheel of cheese. Each is doing their part as the whole Allied world bends toward one looming date on the horizon.Call it the pre-pre-D-Day episode. This is the European Theater, 1943.Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com andgo deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendationsjoin discussions in our Facebook communityget news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette come see a live showget HTDS merchor become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks.HTDS is part of Audacy media network.Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com | 1h 01m 53s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | Constitutional ConventionFounding Fathers+4 | — | Articles of Confederation | VirginiaPhiladelphia+1 | ConstitutionVirginia Plan+5 | — | 1h 07m 31s | ||
| 8/24/26 | Pacific TheaterWorld War II+4 | Captain Mac Caldwell | USMCDarden School at the University of Virginia | AtlantaPacific | Pacific TheaterWorld War II+6 | — | 54m 43s | ||
| 8/10/26 | Pacific WarCairo Conference+5 | — | Audacy media network | SaipanTokyo+2 | Pacific WarCairo Conference+8 | — | 58m 34s | ||
| 7/27/26 | Pacific WarOperation Cartwheel+5 | — | — | PacificTarawa+3 | Pacific WarOperation Cartwheel+8 | — | 57m 06s | ||
| 7/13/26 | Pacific WarGuadalcanal+4 | — | — | GuadalcanalAleutian Islands+1 | GuadalcanalPacific War+5 | — | 59m 07s | ||
| 7/6/26 | US governmentConstitution+3 | Lindsey Cormack | History That Doesn't SuckHTDSpodcast.com+1 | — | ConstitutionUS government+3 | — | 48m 26s | ||
| 7/2/26 | Declaration of IndependenceAmerican history+3 | Lindsey CormackBen Sawyer+3 | Government That Doesn’t SuckThe Road to Now+4 | — | Declaration of IndependenceAmerican history+3 | — | 11m 06s | ||
| 6/22/26 | American RevolutionDeclaration of Independence+4 | — | — | New YorkBoston | Declaration of IndependenceAlexander Hamilton+5 | — | 1h 02m 13s | ||
| 6/15/26 | American historyresilience+3 | Professor Greg Jackson | Been There, Done That: What Our History Shows What We Can Overcome | United States | American experimentpolitical resilience+3 | — | 1h 00m 51s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Japanese American internmentWorld War II+4 | — | Supreme CourtExecutive Order 9066 | United StatesTanforan | Japanese internmentFDR+6 | — | 1h 06m 08s | ||
| 5/22/26 | American propagandawartime culture+4 | — | Casablanca | — | propagandawartime+6 | — | 1h 03m 02s | ||
| 5/18/26 | family legendsancestral mystique+1 | — | Family Lore | — | family loreancestry+3 | — | 41m 01s | ||
| 5/11/26 | home frontWorld War II+4 | — | Jim Crow | America | victory gardenshome front+5 | — | 58m 33s | ||
| 5/4/26 | historypolitical violence+4 | — | Been There, Done That | United States | historypolitical violence+5 | — | 34m 37s | ||
| 4/27/26 | HolocaustAuschwitz+4 | — | HTDSpodcast.comAudacy+1 | — | HolocaustAnne Frank+5 | — | 1h 02m 34s | ||
| 4/13/26 | HolocaustNazi Germany+4 | — | Nazi | EuropeAuschwitz | HolocaustNazi+5 | — | 1h 04m 22s | ||
| 3/30/26 | Holocaustantisemitism+4 | Sara J. Bloomfield | US Holocaust Memorial MuseumAudacy+4 | — | Holocaustantisemitism+5 | — | 44m 21s | ||
| 3/16/26 | Allied InvasionSicily+4 | — | AudacyHTDS | — | Allied forcesSicily+5 | — | 54m 53s | ||
| 3/2/26 | North African CampaignWorld War II+3 | — | Britain’s 7th Armoured Division | North AfricaEgypt+2 | North AfricaDesert Rats+5 | — | 1h 01m 00s | ||
| 2/16/26 | World War IIAnglo-American Alliance+3 | — | Audacy media network | United KingdomFrance+1 | Anglo-American AllianceEuropean Theater+3 | — | 58m 49s | ||
| 2/2/26 | World War IInaval battles+5 | — | — | Pearl HarborPacific | Coral SeaMidway+7 | — | 59m 08s | ||
| 1/19/26 | World War IIPacific Theater+4 | — | — | PhilippinesAustralia | BataanDoolittle Raid+7 | SquarespaceHTDS | 1h 00m 02s | ||
| 1/5/26 | Pearl HarborWorld War II+3 | Professor Lindsey CormackSteve Twomey | Been There Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can OvercomeStevens Institute of Technology+1 | Key WestThe Bahamas | Pearl HarborWorld War II+5 | — | 55m 50s | ||
| 12/22/25 | World War IIHanukkah+5 | — | Audacy | WarsawWashington, D.C. | HanukkahChristmas+5 | — | 34m 25s | ||
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Chart history for History That Doesn't Suck
Peaked at #14 in United States, currently #14 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| United States | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| Brazil | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| GR | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| PL | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| Canada | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| KE | — | #78 | #78 | — |
| PH | — | #86 | #86 | — |
| Ireland | — | #91 | #91 | — |
| MY | — | #94 | #94 | — |
| CZ | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #121 | #121 | — |
| Australia | — | #129 | #129 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #130 | #130 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #145 | #145 | — |
| ID | — | #148 | #148 | — |
| IL | — | #153 | #153 | — |
| Mexico | — | #169 | #169 | — |
Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.
Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.