History Unplugged Podcast

A podcast by History Unplugged

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Society & Culture History

973 Episodes

  1. Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball

    Published: 3/6/2025

  2. How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco

    Published: 3/4/2025

  3. Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road

    Published: 2/27/2025

  4. Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)

    Published: 2/25/2025

  5. The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers

    Published: 2/20/2025

  6. Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?

    Published: 2/18/2025

  7. The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon

    Published: 2/13/2025

  8. Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two

    Published: 2/11/2025

  9. The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States

    Published: 2/6/2025

  10. Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World

    Published: 2/4/2025

  11. Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks

    Published: 1/30/2025

  12. When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures

    Published: 1/28/2025

  13. The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet

    Published: 1/23/2025

  14. How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?

    Published: 1/21/2025

  15. The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

    Published: 1/16/2025

  16. 200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire

    Published: 1/14/2025

  17. What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption

    Published: 1/9/2025

  18. Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?

    Published: 1/7/2025

  19. A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water

    Published: 1/2/2025

  20. The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?

    Published: 12/31/2024

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For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features long-form interviews with best-selling authors who have written about everything. Topics include gruff World War II generals who flew with airmen on bombing raids, a war horse who gained the rank of sergeant, and presidents who gave their best speeches while drunk.