More recommendations:

Miniminuteman (history/debunking viral claims)

Ancient Americas (video essays about various pre-contact societies in the Americas)

Time Team (filming archaeologists as they excavate a site)

A Brush With Bekah (demonstrations of historical pigment use, plus education about why it’s toxic AF)

For military history also Animarchy and if you like a touch of weirdness, Lazerpig.

History in Taberna is also great.

And Stefan Milo.

And How to Drink, when the episodes are more history focused.

Seconding Max Miller. For history I would also like to recommend Timeghost. I suspect that most people interested in the world wars already know, but for those who don’t; they’ve done both WWI and WWII week by week, with deep dives into big events (including a 24-hour D-Day documentary) and a big focus on the human cost of war. I cannot recommend them enough to anyone interested in recent history!

For food, Weird Fruit Explorer is awesome. It’s very niche, but high level he’s a contortionist who loves extremely rare fruit and travels the world on a mission to try every fruit there is, the rarer and weirder the better.

https://youtu.be/FkKPpOomdpQ

It’s a very fun show. Sort by most watched though since not all episodes are the most interesting IMO.

For ancient history and prehistory, there are extraordinary riches:
History With Cy
Dan Davis History
Stefan Milo
Ancient Architects
World Of Antiquity
toldinstone

A good way to find more, pull that thread, is to see which other YouTube channels these channels follow.

i never login on Yt, so i try to swamp the algorithim my preferred feeds, of certain kinds of videos, pets/animal science, clips of old shows.

Another good food history one is OTR On the Road (got to the naming game late, I guess)