History's Not Boring

Imagine a giant gap of water so huge no one could cross it! That was the San Francisco Bay! People said building a bridge was IMPOSSIBLE! But in 1933,...

Get ready to meet a real-life superhero who changed the world with his fingertips! 🤩 Imagine not being able to read the amazing stories you love! Tha...

Get ready to zoom back to the 1250s for the ultimate adventure! We’re meeting Marco Polo, a young kid from Italy who decided ordinary life was boring!...

Get ready for the biggest bargain in history! Russia had a GIANT, icy land called Alaska, and guess what? They sold it to the United States for just $...

Get ready for the most dramatic takeover in history! Did you know Rome wasn't always ruled by an Emperor? Join Mira and Finn as they dive into the sho...

Hey history detectives! Grab your party hats because we are traveling thousands of years to find out when the biggest party of the year actually start...

Imagine trying to cut a path right through a giant mountain range to connect two huge oceans! That’s exactly what people dreamed of doing with the Pan...

Yeehaw! Have you ever wondered why Texas is nicknamed the 'Lone Star State'? Get ready for a huge historical adventure! Today, Mira and Finn uncover t...

Ready for the biggest, most beautiful love story in history? When Emperor Shah Jahan lost his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, he was absolutely heartbroken! But i...

Welcome to History’s Not Boring! Can you imagine a world without screens, videos, or movies? That was 1895! In Paris, France, people were ready for a...

Hold up—what happens the day *after* Christmas? It's Boxing Day! Mira and Finn are ready to uncover the mystery of this curious holiday. Does it invol...

Get ready for a HUGE surprise! Have you ever wondered why we tear open colorful presents on Christmas morning? This episode has the incredible answer!...

Hey history explorers! Welcome to History’s Not Boring! Did you know that long before Santa needed help, reindeer were real-life superheroes in the fr...

Get ready for the wildest space adventure ever! The year is 1968, and the Space Race is heating up. But three brave astronauts were about to do someth...

Hey history detectives! Get ready for the incredible true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan! Imagine loving math so much that you teach yourself everything...

Hold onto your helmets! Mira and Finn are taking a massive time machine trip—way back to 1000 CE! Did you know someone found America almost 500 years...

Do you love decorating the Christmas tree? Have you ever wondered where this amazing tradition comes from? Spoiler alert: it's not Santa's workshop! J...

Get ready for the world’s greatest ancient mystery! Welcome to History’s Not Boring, where we’re tackling the giant puzzle of Stonehenge! Picture this...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Today, Mira and Finn are traveling 4,500 years back in time to Ancient Egypt! We are visiting the Pyramids of Giza—th...

Hey kids! Mira and Finn are here for a super exciting story about a cartoon that broke ALL the rules and changed television forever! Did you know a cr...

Hey history detectives! Get ready for a dramatic, midnight adventure! Imagine being forced to pay extra money just for your favorite drink—tea! In 177...

Hey history detectives! Did you know a document created over 234 years ago still protects your right to speak up, choose what you believe, and even re...

Get ready for an epic history adventure with Mira and Finn! Have you ever heard the incredible story behind Hanukkah? It all started centuries ago whe...

Get ready for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious celebration! Today, we are honoring a HUGE milestone: the 100th birthday of the legendary Dick Van...

Get ready for a HUGE blast of history! Before 1901, sending a message across the ocean took forever. Then came Guglielmo Marconi, a super smart invent...

Welcome to the biggest royal shocker of the whole 20th century! Imagine you're King, and everyone expects you to rule forever. But what if you wanted...

Today is Nobel Prize Day, and we are diving deep into the explosive history of the man who started it all: Alfred Nobel! Alfred was a brilliant scient...

Get ready for an epic desert adventure! We’re zooming back to 1917 during the wildest war ever: World War I. For 400 long years, the massive Ottoman E...

Hey history detectives! Are you ready for a true story about everyday bravery? We’re traveling back to 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, where the rules we...

Are you ready for some history that flies high? Join Mira and Finn as we talk about the incredible Wright Brothers! Before they were famous pilots, Or...

Hey history detectives! Join Mira (9) and Finn (7) as we uncover the incredible story of Prince Siddhartha! Imagine living in a gigantic, beautiful pa...

Have you ever wondered where the magic comes from? We're talking about Walt Disney, the genius who gave the world Mickey Mouse, Cinderella's castle, a...

Join Mira and Finn as we speed back to the dramatic year 1066! The old King of England has died, but guess what? He forgot to pick the next boss! Sudd...

Welcome back to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn are traveling straight to ancient China during the powerful Tang Dynasty! Forget peaceful scrolls...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn are ready for some incredible human drama and historical gross-out details! We're setting the stage in...

Hey history detectives! Have you ever heard of a wall that separated friends, families, and even entire cities? Get ready for a dramatic, exciting epi...

Get ready for the wildest true story ever told! Imagine being trapped on a huge ship in Antarctica in 1914, surrounded by freezing, crushing ice! Sir...

BOOM! Imagine you are 200,000 miles from Earth, closer to the Moon than ever before, when suddenly an explosion rocks your spacecraft! That’s exactly...

Hey History explorers! Get ready for a super spooky, totally true story! Flashback to 1692: It's cold in Salem Village, Massachusetts, and suddenly, t...

Hey History explorers! Get ready for an adventure back in time over 5,000 years ago! Mira and Finn are traveling all the way to ancient Mesopotamia (s...

Ahoy, history adventurers! Get ready for an incredible, thrilling tale of courage and speed! Everyone knows the famous story of the RMS Titanic, but d...

Hey history explorers! Get ready to look *way* past the giant turkey and pumpkin pie! Mira and Finn are diving deep into the true origins of Thanksgiv...

Hey history detectives! Grab your snorkel because we are diving deep into the Pacific Ocean! It’s 1941, and while World War II was already happening i...

Welcome to the story of a dramatic, dizzying historical moment when one giant country suddenly became two! For over 200 years, the British ruled a hug...

Hey historians! Get ready to time travel almost 3,000 years into the past! Mira and Finn are strapping in for the wildest ride to Ancient Greece. We a...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Before computers, before even pencils, how did people get books? They copied them by hand! Imagine taking *five years...

Hey history adventurers! Mira and Finn are here to talk about one of the most incredible rulers ever: Genghis Khan! This guy didn't start life as a fa...

Hey history detectives! Are you ready to visit the biggest, baddest sports stadium of the ancient world? We’re heading to Rome, Italy, to explore the...

Hey History Explorers! Did you know there are millions of tiny creatures living all around us—in a single drop of water, on your desk, and even on you...

Welcome to the biggest, oldest disaster story ever! Imagine living in a beautiful Roman city called Pompeii, almost 2,000 years ago. Everything is nor...

Hey history explorers! Have you ever tried to read a secret language? For thousands of years, nobody could understand the amazing pictures carved by t...

Get ready for a top-secret mission! We are traveling back to **September 1st, 1939**, when the world was gripped by World War II. The enemy was sendin...

Hey history detectives! Welcome back to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn are here to explore the most incredible shift in human history! Imagine co...

Get ready for the biggest, most explosive disaster movie in history! Mira and Finn are diving 66 million years into the past, right to the terrifying...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn are diving into a super gross topic today: BACTERIA! Yuck! Did you know that before a certain amazing d...

Welcome to the ultimate true adventure story! Long ago, the world was gripped by the ‘Space Race’—a wild competition between two countries to see who...

Welcome back to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn are ready to take you on our biggest time-travel adventure yet! We’re zooming back hundreds of tho...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! I'm Mira! And I'm Finn! Get ready for a top-secret mission as we investigate one of the coolest planes ever built: th...

Welcome back to History's Not Boring! Mira and Finn have the most amazing, dramatic royal story ever. Get ready to meet King Henry VIII! He was tall,...

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Get ready for a story that is genuinely terrifying and totally fascinating: The Great Fire of London! Picture this: I...

Get ready for a crazy adventure on the sea! Did you know there was a ship built over 100 years ago that everyone called "unsinkable"? It was the Titan...