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A history podcast with a pop culture twist. Get book, TV, movie, and podcast recommendations about your favorite historical figures. New episodes released on Mondays.
In a quiet Toledo shed in the late 1880s, country doctor Allen DeVilbiss tinkered with a problem: how to spray treatments into his patients’...
On March 6, 1899, a flock of peacocks on a Waikīkī estate began to wail so loudly that people across the island heard them and knew. Their k...
Storical is becoming something new. Same voice. Same obsession with the past. But from here on, every story runs through scent — because sce...
Theda Bara was the most famous movie star you’ve probably never heard of. One of the first movie stars, America’s first goth, and Hollywood’...
In a first for Storical Podcast, here is a live episode! I recently gave a lecture sharing some of the most interesting stories in perfume h...
We all know about Eastern European vampires but did you know that right here in America we had our own vampire panic? Yup. It turns out New...
Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vande...
Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vande...
This is the Storical Halloween Special. The veil is thin and the dead walk among us. Before you indulge in some tricks or treats, enjoy this...
Storical is back with an all new episode about the messy life of Mary Queen of Scots. There is murder, treason, Medicis, and Tudors… you won...
Storical is back for an all new season starting with a special episode for Black History Month. This week, we’re talking about Edmonia Lewis...
The festivities that grew into modern day Christmas have spanned millennia. But most of the traditions we recognize today began under the re...
Pssst…it turns out Christmas is a super pagan holiday. On today’s episode we’re doing a brief overview of the origins of Christmas and how C...
It’s Native American Heritage Day! For today’s episode, I’ll be shining a light on an important Native woman in Nevada history: Sarah Winnem...
Edgar Allan Poe had a mind for the macabre. But as it turns out, some of his most famous works were based on true tales of horror. Listen to...
Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849, but there are still places standing that housed the author. This week, we’re traveling from Richmond to Baltim...
Edgar Allan Poe died as he lived…mysteriously. It’s been more than 200 years and we still don’t know what killed Poe but there are theories....
Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece, The Raven, was inspired not by any ordinary raven, not by a harbinger of doom, it was a talking pet raven nam...
October is spOoOoky month and OF COURSE Edgar Allan Poe died in October. This month on Storical, tune in every week for a new episode on the...
Marie Laveau was THE Voodoo Queen in a city overrun with purported doctors and queens. Today we’re separating fact from fiction about both M...
When Percy Bysshe Shelley was cremated, Lord Byron and the others present noticed something odd… his heart wouldn’t burn. This week, we’re d...
Artemisia Gentileschi was a Baroque painter whose story has long been dominated by that of her father…and her rapist. But Artemisia lived a...
This week, we’re revisiting the colorful, iconic, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Her life was marked by pain and suffering of both the body and...
Nannerl Mozart was Mozart’s older sister and a child prodigy herself. Today we’re taking a look at the life of the pushed aside sister. Stor...
The movie Amadeus solidified the belief that not only was Mozart murdered, but he was murdered at Salieri’s hand. That didn’t actually happe...
Replay episode! Get ready for some drama filled history as we welcome our first gentleman subject to Storical, King Henry VIII. Love him or...
Bishops from the Catholic church were in charge of Joan of Arc’s trial and ended up condemning her to die. So if it was the church that burn...
We all know that Joan of Arc believed she heard the voices of saints sent by God on her mission to save France. But who were these saints an...
Charles VI believed he was made entirely of glass and that any small movement would cause him to shatter. Listen in for an exploration of th...
Joan of Arc is the patron saint of France, and unlike many of the saints…she actually existed! Listen to the episode to learn how an illiter...
With the rapid spread of COVID-19, people across the globe are feeling anxious and uncertain. It’s important to remember that we’ve been her...
This week marks both the birthday and death day of one of (the?) greatest writer of all time, William Shakespeare! For the Storical Shakespe...
After you visited the museum, if you were brave enough and could afford the extra six pence admission, Madame Tussaud would allow you entry...
You’ve seen the creepy wax figures of celebrities, but did you know that Madame Tussaud was an actual person who hung out with Marie Antoine...
Final episode in our series for Irish History Month is a rebroadcast of last year’s episode on Charlotte Brontë! (Her grandparents were Iris...
Dr. James Miranda Barry was a Victorian doctor with a big secret: he was born Margaret Anne Bulkley. We’re rounding out Irish History Month...
Whether someone is a freedom fighter or a terrorist depends on whose side you’re on. Such is the case with Michael Collins, the Irish revolu...
It’s International Women’s Day! What better way to celebrate than diving into the life of Margaret Sanger - the reproductive rights advocate...
Calling all dandies! We’re kicking off Irish Heritage Month with a look at witty Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde. Listen in for a detailed loo...
The more Josephine Baker’s star rose, the more exotic her pets became. This week we’re taking a look at Josephine’s menagerie of wild animal...
Josephine Baker is looked to as a historical example of a strong, successful, queer performer. Today, we’re looking at her relationships wit...
Just in time for the 92nd Academy Awards, here is a look at unlikely best friends Josephine Baker and Grace Kelly! The two women met when Gr...
You know about the banana skirt, but Josephine Baker contained multitudes. In celebration of Black History Month, we’re taking a look at the...
When you’re a person in power, a lot of people want you dead. Would-be assassins tried eight times to kill Queen Victoria, but luck was on h...
Queen Victoria had 9 kids and 42 grandchildren! It was hoped that by marrying off her descendants to the different houses of Europe that the...
Queen Victoria had a lonely childhood thanks to the oppressive Kensington System her mother and Sir John Conroy set up to keep her dependent...
Queen Victoria was the sovereign of the UK at the height of British Empire, and until her great-great granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II overt...
Pssst…it turns out Christmas is a super pagan holiday. On today’s episode we’re doing a brief overview of the origins of Christmas and how C...
Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece, The Raven, was inspired not by any ordinary raven, not by a harbinger of doom, it was a talking pet raven nam...
It’s the holiday season which means that the roughly 9 billion adaptations of A Christmas Carol are on television playing in a continuous lo...