History Unplugged Podcast

A podcast by Scott Rank, PhD

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  1. Dunkirk from the German Perspective

    Published: 5/16/2024
  2. The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

    Published: 5/14/2024
  3. Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards

    Published: 5/9/2024
  4. The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

    Published: 5/7/2024
  5. Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?

    Published: 5/2/2024
  6. The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?

    Published: 4/30/2024
  7. Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time

    Published: 4/25/2024
  8. A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely

    Published: 4/23/2024
  9. Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals

    Published: 4/18/2024
  10. The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes

    Published: 4/16/2024
  11. A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890)

    Published: 4/12/2024
  12. The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured

    Published: 4/11/2024
  13. The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler

    Published: 4/9/2024
  14. Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor

    Published: 4/4/2024
  15. How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution

    Published: 4/2/2024
  16. Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions

    Published: 3/28/2024
  17. The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945

    Published: 3/26/2024
  18. WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War

    Published: 3/21/2024
  19. The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War

    Published: 3/19/2024
  20. The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America

    Published: 3/15/2024

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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.