Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown 2025-07-08
Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal 2025-07-07
Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence 2025-07-07
Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison 2025-07-06
The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman 2025-07-06
Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan 2025-07-05
Why Being a Spartan Helot Was a Nightmare 2025-07-05
Why You Wouldn't Survive Aboard a WWII U-Boat 2025-07-04
What It Was Like to Spend a Day in a 19th-Century Parisian Café 2025-07-04
The UNTHINKABLE Reality of a Slave Ship Crossing the Atlantic 2025-07-03
You're Accused of Sorcery in Ottoman Istanbul 2025-07-03
Why You Wouldn't Survive a Camel Caravan Across the Sahara 2025-07-02
Why You Wouldn't Survive Hannibal's March Over the Alps 2025-07-02
What It Was Like to Work in the Library of Alexandria 2025-07-01
The TERRIFYING Reality of Locked in Syndrome 2025-07-01
The HORRIFYING Fate of the Radium Girls 2025-06-30
Why You'd REGRET Being a Roman Sewer Worker 2025-06-30
Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence 2025-06-29
The BRUTAL Life of a Pharaoh's Servant 2025-06-29
Why You Wouldn't Survive the Dust Bowl 2025-06-28
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