History Unplugged Podcast

941 Episodes

1. Republicans Controlled 1920s America But Were Later Crushed By the New Deal Coalition. How Do These Realignments Happen?

   Published: 12/1/2022
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald was Every Bit the Alcoholic, Grandiose Delusional Dreamer as His Fictional Character Jay Gatsby

   Published: 11/29/2022
3. The Most Underrated People in History Include a U.S. President, Soviet Officer, and a Farmer Who Saved 2 Billion Lives

   Published: 11/24/2022
4. "I Sprinted Toward the Gunman": Josh Cohen from Eyewitness History Speaks to the Former Principal of Columbine High School

   Published: 11/23/2022
5. How a Founding Father and His Family Went From Slave Owners to Radical Abolitionists

   Published: 11/22/2022
6. Growing Up as the Daughter of WW2 Spies

   Published: 11/17/2022
7. Entrepreneurs in the Ancient World: From Neolithic Fashion Tycoons to Babylon’s 'Silicon Valley' Startup Founders

   Published: 11/15/2022
8. The Abolitionist Who Was Chaplain to Black Civil War Soldiers and Started a College Burned Down by the KKK

   Published: 11/10/2022
9. The Russian-Jewish Woman Who Voluntarily Interred Herself in a WW2 Japanese Internment Camp

   Published: 11/8/2022
10. In 1963, A Stuttering, Nebbish Magazine Editor Negotiated a Secret Deal Between JFK and Khrushchev, Averting Nuclear War

    Published: 11/3/2022
11. A Traumatized Civil War Vet -- Suffering Crippling Alcoholism and PTSD -- Spent 40 Years Wandering America as a Hobo

    Published: 11/1/2022
12. The Secret Role of Japanese Americans Who Fought in the WW2 Pacific Theatre

    Published: 10/27/2022
13. FDR’s Polio Made Him Wheelchair Bound, But Also an Incredible Orator and Strategic Mastermind

    Published: 10/25/2022
14. John Donne: The Genius Priest/Poet Who Saw Infinity and Triggered Stampedes At His Sermons

    Published: 10/20/2022
15. Sigmund Freud Deluded Himself Into Thinking The Nazis Weren’t A Threat Until It Was Nearly Too Late

    Published: 10/18/2022
16. The Most Important Diplomat in 1700s North America was a Cherokee Woman Who Saved Washington’s Life and Introduced Dairy to Her Tribe

    Published: 10/13/2022
17. Do Racial Preferences in U.S. College Admissions Process Date Back to Ivy League Attempts to Limit Jewish Enrollment?

    Published: 10/11/2022
18. Uber Succeed in the US but Failed in the UK and China Because of Jefferson and Hamilton’s Fight Over State Licensing

    Published: 10/6/2022
19. James Early Explains Why the War of 1812 Turned America Into an Expansionist Military Power

    Published: 9/29/2022
20. Introducing: It Was Said Season 2

    Published: 9/28/2022