Hosted by Dyllan Gasaway · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Welcome to Naked History, the podcast that peels back the polished layers of the past to reveal the weird, wild, and wonderful truths beneath. Hosted by historian Dyllan Gasaway, this show dives into the untold tales, strange coincidences, and overlooked events that shaped the world. From volcanic eruptions that sparked literary masterpieces to strange coincedences, absurd inventions, historical what-ifs, and the mystery of it all, you've found the right place.
Dyllan Gasaway hosts Naked History, a history show with 20 episodes published.
America’s birthday starts at the front door. In the first episode of the Naked History 250th Special , we step inside the American Experiment and ask what was actually being born in 1776: a nation, a rebellion, a politic
America’s birthday has a footnote. This week on Naked History , we’re warming up for the big July 4th special with a short episode about why the Fourth of July was not always destined to be the Fourth of July. The vote f
The Radium Girls story is already horrifying: young women told to paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials with radioactive paint, sharpen their brushes with their lips, and trust the companies that swore everything was safe.
Podcast Description In this episode of Naked History , we’re turning off the lights and following the glow straight into one of the most horrifying workplace scandals of the twentieth century. The Radium Girls were young
One year. Dozens of stories. Far too many historical red flags. This week, Naked History celebrates its first anniversary with the official, deeply unserious, emotionally sincere Naked History Yearbook . Dyllan looks bac
Amelia Earhart didn’t vanish alone. In this Naked History: Debrief , we pull Fred Noonan out of the historical overhead bin and give Amelia’s navigator the spotlight he deserves. We dig into who Noonan was, why his role
Before Amelia Earhart became one of history’s most famous mysteries, she was a person: restless, ambitious, media-savvy, stubborn, and very much done with a world that wanted women to stay decorative and grounded. In thi
After the Bonus Army marched on Washington, the story did not just end in smoke, tear gas, and Douglas MacArthur aggressively failing the vibe check. In this Naked History: Debrief , we go back to the camp at Anacostia t
In the summer of 1932, thousands of World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., not to overthrow the government, but to ask it to keep a promise. They were hungry, unemployed, and desperate in the middle of the Gre
In this Naked History: Debrief , we head back behind the barricades of the Paris Commune for the strange, messy, and politically flammable leftovers from the main episode. Dyllan digs into the pieces that didn’t quite fi
In 1871, after war, siege, starvation, and political collapse, the people of Paris tried something extraordinary: they took over their own city. In this episode of Naked History , Dyllan Gasaway dives into the story of t
After the jump comes the fallout. In this week’s Naked History: Debrief , Dyllan Gasaway digs into the details, oddities, and lingering questions that make the D. B. Cooper case so hard to shake. From the ransom demands
In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a plane, asked for $200,000, strapped on a parachute, and vanished into the night. No body. No confirmed identity. No clear ending. Just a briefcase, a bourbon and soda,
What makes a con actually work? In this week’s Naked History: Debrief , Dyllan Gasaway follows up the Victor Lustig episode by digging into the psychology behind the scam. Why do people fall for frauds that seem so absur
What kind of man looks at the Eiffel Tower and thinks, I could sell that ? In this episode of Naked History , Dyllan Gasaway dives into the unbelievable true story of Victor Lustig , the polished con artist who didn’t ju
The main episode told the street-level nightmare. This Debrief goes under the floorboards. In 1518 Strasbourg, people didn’t “party themselves to death.” They moved—compulsively—inside a pressure-cooker world of plague m
In the summer of 1518, the streets of Strasbourg didn’t erupt in celebration. They erupted in compulsion . One person began to dance. Then another. Then dozens. Accounts describe bodies moving past exhaustion, past reaso
Courtly Love Myths vs. Lived Medieval Marriage (Valentine’s Debrief) Valentine’s Day sells us a medieval love story: longing, poetry, destiny… and maybe a tasteful lute in the background. But medieval marriage? That was
Valentine’s Day isn’t one origin story—it’s a stack of stories . It starts in martyrdom: early Christian executions and a name—Valentine—that becomes attached to a date. Then the legend engine kicks in, turning a blurry
The main episode told the myth and the mechanics. This Debrief goes where the headlines don’t. We’re talking about what came after Laika’s launch: the later admissions and regrets from inside the Soviet space program, th
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