Podcasts may be the best thing to happen to history class since we stopped teaching history as a list of battles. After all, what could be more dramatic than stories about the people who changed society, for good and ill? But producing history is harder than it appears — and going under the covers of history podcasts offers universal lessons for everyone interested in great storytelling, no matter the genre. Lindsay Graham, the voice of American History Tellers, American Scandal, and History Daily, shares his successes, failures, and self-doubts in growing one of the most successful history franchises in entertainment today. He also addresses Wondery’s controversial “immersive storytelling” practice, which includes fictionalized reenactments of history. We dissect a History Daily episode about Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, and an American History Tellers episode about the Salem Witch Trials – an episode that sounds eerily similar to political events we’re going through today.