History Unplugged Podcast

973 Episodes

1. Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair

   Published: 1/10/2023
2. A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering)

   Published: 1/5/2023
3. J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies

   Published: 1/3/2023
4. The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness

   Published: 12/29/2022
5. Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera

   Published: 12/27/2022
6. The Double Victory Campaign: Over 1 Million Black Americans Enlisted in WW2 To Fight Fascism Abroad and Win Equality at Home

   Published: 12/22/2022
7. Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman

   Published: 12/20/2022
8. Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War

   Published: 12/15/2022
9. Failed Futures: The Confederacy Had Colossal Plans After the Civil War to Spread Slavery Across the Globe And Become Fabulously Wealthy

   Published: 12/13/2022
10. Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road

    Published: 12/8/2022
11. Failed Futures: The Post-War Plans of Alexander the Great, the Confederacy, and the Soviet Union that Never Happened

    Published: 12/7/2022
12. Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and the Other Brilliant But Eccentric Characters That Electrified Our World

    Published: 12/6/2022
13. Republicans Controlled 1920s America But Were Later Crushed By the New Deal Coalition. How Do These Realignments Happen?

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

    Published: 11/29/2022
15. 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
16. "I Sprinted Toward the Gunman": Josh Cohen from Eyewitness History Speaks to the Former Principal of Columbine High School

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/10/2022