Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
Episodes
EP34 Atomic Accountability
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you k...
EP33 Sledgehammer and Big Shot
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
EP32 The Show with Mike Rowe
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeit...
EP31 Kushite Conversations
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP29 The Handmaidens of the Apocalypse
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically ou...
EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This show starts off with an extended discussion of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust and the associated dangers of extreme governmental power fol...
EP27 More Steppe Stories
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huns, Mongols, Turks, Scythians and other nomadic steppe tribes are longtime interests of Dan's. In this show he interviews historian Kenneth W. Harl ...
EP26 Dig This!
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniele Bolelli the fabulous host of “History on Fire” and I fanboy out over archaeology. We had some inexplicable audio problems at times with th...
EP25 The Long View
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan tries focusing a much wider historical lens on perennial human issues like war, land ownership, immigration, ethnicity, environmental worries and ...
EP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 topic...
EP23 Boxing with Ghosts
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 dis...
EP22 The Fabulous Bill Barrett
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 catal...
EP21 Hollandansandbrook
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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” ...
EP 20 A Republic Lost at Sea
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Barry Strauss and Dan talk about Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar and a host of historical luminaries in a tale worthy...
EP19 Asymmetrical Perspectives
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author, actor and senior fellow at the Modern War Institute Max Brooks joins Dan to discuss asymmetrical warfare and related societal issues. 1. "On W...
EP18 Iranian Interconnections
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, hist...
EP17 Engineering Victory with Elon
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
EP16 Powers Thrones and Dan Jones
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mi...
EP15 The Supernova Coda
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP14 The Game of War
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell joins Dan to discuss the development of U.S. precision bombing ideas, Curtis LeMay and the firebombing of Ja...
EP12 Wolf Pack Hunting with Hanks
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Histo...
EP11 Toronto Redux
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Canadian television personality, radio and podcast host Jeff Marek takes over the show and interviews Dan. Show Notes:
EP10 Strangelove Whisperings
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
EP9 Glimpses of Olympias
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ma...
EP8 Caesar at Hastings
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Could militaries separated by ten centuries compete on a battlefield? In this alternative history experiment two armies that successfully...
EP7 Hardcore History On Fire
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP6 On The Vietnam War with Sir Max
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP5 Nightmares of Indianapolis
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP4 Exposing the Hart of The Great War
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and the British Imperial War Museum's famed First World War historian Peter Hart talk about one of their favorite mutual interests...World War One...
EP3 A Four-Star Conversation
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dan talks about history, war and philosophy (and where those three subject might converge) with Four-Star General and former U.S. Air Force Chief-of-S...
EP2 Rome Through Duncan's Eyes
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
History podcasting legend Mike Duncan and Dan talk about Mike's new book on the pivotal early era of Rome's road from Republic to Empire.
EP1 Imperial Germany vs Nazi Germany
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dan once said that he thought Germany's First World War military was superior to Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht. He is often asked to elaborate, so he does ...