History buffs, listen up: Wondery's 'American History Tellers' podcast is for you

Carly Mallenbaum | USA TODAY

If your history teacher had a voice like podcast host Lindsay Graham's (not the Senator), then maybe you would have looked forward to class a little more.

Wondery's newest history podcast (after Tides of History, History Unplugged and Fall of Rome) is American History Tellers, narrated by Graham's rich baritone. As you can expect from Wondery, the prominent podcast production company, the show is thorough, expertly edited and features plenty of Pomp and Circumstance-style musical transitions.

This is a show for serious history buffs who want to know what life for Americans was really like during the Cold War, Gold Rush and Space Race. Don't care about the ideological concerns that drove conflict in the U.S.? This podcast is not for you. But want to know how historians have written different takes on the same events in American history? Listen up.

American History Tellers' first three episodes, about the Cold War, are available now on Apple Podcasts and wherever you download podcasts.

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