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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Dan Carlin

Interviews, musings and extra material from the makers of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. If it did not fit in the HH feed it's probably here

34 episodes

EP34 Atomic Accountability 28 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 23 min Dan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you know about the subject.

EP33 Sledgehammer and Big Shot 5 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 32 min Henry Sledge, son of Eugene Sledge, writer of the classic war memoir "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" has released a book that includes tons of material left out of his…

EP32 The Show with Mike Rowe 29 Mar 2025 · 2 hr 31 min Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist.

EP31 Kushite Conversations 13 Jan 2025 · 1 hr 11 min Dan talks with writer, broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi about the ancient African kingdom of Kush and her book on African history.

EP30 So, you say you want a revolution? 1 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 38 min This show could also have been called "Violent Reflections" as Dan repurposes old work he did on the revolutionary era of the late 1960s. This is NOT a deep HH-style look at the p…

EP29 The Handmaidens of the Apocalypse 5 Apr 2024 · 1 hr 2 min Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war migh…

EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman 16 Feb 2024 · 3 hr 18 min This show starts off with an extended discussion of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust and the associated dangers of extreme governmental power followed by an interview with Ho…

EP27 More Steppe Stories 16 Aug 2023 · 1 hr 11 min Huns, Mongols, Turks, Scythians and other nomadic steppe tribes are longtime interests of Dan's. In this show he interviews historian Kenneth W. Harl who specializes in the study…

EP26 Dig This! 31 May 2023 · 1 hr 42 min Daniele Bolelli the fabulous host of "History on Fire" and I fanboy out over archaeology. We had some inexplicable audio problems at times with the recording, so hopefully that do…

EP25 The Long View 1 Apr 2023 · 1 hr 12 min Dan tries focusing a much wider historical lens on perennial human issues like war, land ownership, immigration, ethnicity, environmental worries and the double-edged sword that i…

EP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick 14 Feb 2023 · 2 hr 53 min Rick Rubin joins Dan to discuss human creativity. This unusual show evolves as it goes though and by the end covers a wide array of subjects and topics. By the end it isn't even c…

EP23 Boxing with Ghosts 16 Nov 2022 · 1 hr 7 min Ready for an argument? Like Dan's quote voice? Waiting to hear Dan discuss boxing? Then you've hit the trifecta. Boxing expert Mike Silver and Dan discuss whether today's modern f…

EP22 The Fabulous Bill Barrett 20 Aug 2022 · 21 min Bill Barrett has been the voice of Dan Carlin's podcasts since they began in 2005. In this retrospective Dan looks back at samples of Bill's catalog of work.

EP21 Hollandansandbrook 28 Jul 2022 · 1 hr 40 min Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook stop by to continue the conversation with Dan that began on their own podcast The Rest is History. 1. "Rubicon" by Tom Holland 2. "Dominion" by T…

EP 20 A Republic Lost at Sea 16 Apr 2022 · 1 hr 9 min Professor Barry Strauss and Dan talk about Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar and a host of historical luminaries in a tale worthy of Shakespeare as the Roman…

EP19 Asymmetrical Perspectives 6 Feb 2022 · 1 hr 27 min Author, actor and senior fellow at the Modern War Institute Max Brooks joins Dan to discuss asymmetrical warfare and related societal issues. 1. "On War" by Gen. Carl von Clausewi…

EP18 Iranian Interconnections 29 Jan 2022 · 1 hr 27 min Iranian-born historian John Ghazvinian's new book is about the history of the U.S.-Iranian relationship. He and Dan discuss coups, oil, religion, history, arms deals, Shahs, U.S.…

EP17 Engineering Victory with Elon 13 Dec 2021 · 1 hr 42 min Elon Musk and Bill Riley from SpaceX join Dan to discuss the underappreciated role of science and engineering in war. As you might imagine, military aircraft feature prominently i…

EP16 Powers Thrones and Dan Jones 5 Nov 2021 · 1 hr 33 min Historian Dan Jones' specialty is the Middle Ages. Dan Carlin adores the Middle Ages. Normans anyone? 1. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 2. The T…

EP15 The Supernova Coda 26 Oct 2021 · 1 hr 12 min Author Ian W. Toll who has written extensively on the Pacific Theater in the Second World War joins Dan to put the finishing touches on the Supernova in the East subject matter. 1…

EP14 The Game of War 3 Aug 2021 · 1 hr 16 min Dan discusses his background in miniature wargaming and then talks to one of the architects of a popular Second World War themed video game about the genre, its development, growt…

EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia 28 Apr 2021 · 1 hr 2 min Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell joins Dan to discuss the development of U.S. precision bombing ideas, Curtis LeMay and the firebombing of Japanese cities. 1. Bomber Mafi…

EP12 Wolf Pack Hunting with Hanks 9 Jul 2020 · 1 hr 3 min Tom Hanks joins Dan to talk about his new Second World War naval-themed film "Greyhound". This is an hour-long conversation with two fans of History geeking out over the past." Sh…

EP11 Toronto Redux 4 May 2020 · 1 hr 60 min Description: Canadian television personality, radio and podcast host Jeff Marek takes over the show and interviews Dan. Show Notes: sportsnet.ca 31 Thoughts Podcast

EP10 Strangelove Whisperings 2 Mar 2020 · 1 hr 1 min Description: In a world that can sometimes be obsessed with the current threat du jour, author Fred Kaplan reminds us that one of the all-time great threats to us all hasn't gone…

EP9 Glimpses of Olympias 30 Jan 2020 · 3 hr 32 min Description:Philip II of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great are two of the most impressive figures in history. Few could contend with either man. One woman held her own wit…

EP8 Caesar at Hastings 7 Jun 2019 · 2 hr 1 min Description: Could militaries separated by ten centuries compete on a battlefield? In this alternative history experiment two armies that successfully invaded Britain a millennium…

EP7 Hardcore History On Fire 18 Feb 2019 · 1 hr 43 min Dan and History on Fire host Danielle Bolelli do a crosscast together about Nazis, political spectrums, U.S. Presidents they want back and some other stuff. Basically it's a typic…

EP6 On The Vietnam War with Sir Max 30 Oct 2018 · 1 hr 24 min Description: This show comes in two parts, an overview of the Vietnam War era by Dan, followed by a conversation with famed writer, historian and war correspondent Sir Max Hasting…

EP5 Nightmares of Indianapolis 24 Sept 2018 · 53 min Description: Imagine actual people living for real through the plot of several disaster and survival movies combined. That's what the crew of the USS Indianapolis experienced afte…