History Unplugged Podcast

941 Episodes

1. How to Escape From a Nazi Prison Fortress

   Published: 9/27/2022
2. Thomas Jefferson’s European Travel Guide Includes Architectural Sketches, Farming Tips, and an Astronomical Wine Expense Report

   Published: 9/22/2022
3. The Michigan Politician Who Created a Proto-New Deal, Defeated the KKK in Court, and Defended Interred Japanese-Americans

   Published: 9/20/2022
4. The Rag-Tag Art Renegades that Brought Picasso and Modernist Art to the United States

   Published: 9/15/2022
5. The Oldest Stories of King Arthur Have Female Warriors, Black Knights, and Whole Lot of Supernatural Encounters

   Published: 9/13/2022
6. Steve Guerra on Freemasonry, The Catholic Church, and the Modern World

   Published: 9/9/2022
7. Mata Hari Was Either the World’s Greatest Female Spy or a WWI Exotic Dancer Way In Over Her Head

   Published: 9/8/2022
8. Vikings Definitely Came to the New World Before Columbus. Did Celtic Monks, the Chinese, and Phoenicians Do So Also?

   Published: 9/6/2022
9. How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars

   Published: 9/1/2022
10. The Many Ways To Die While Building an Aircraft Carrier

    Published: 8/30/2022
11. The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages

    Published: 8/25/2022
12. America's Universal Education System Exists From a Coalition of Progressives, the Know-Nothing Party, and the Ku Klux Klan

    Published: 8/23/2022
13. How 2 Men Escaped Auschwitz, Exposed the Holocaust to the World, and Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Hungarian Jews

    Published: 8/18/2022
14. Josie Underwood: The Civil War-Era Socialite Who Owned Slaves, Hated Lincoln, and Loved the Union

    Published: 8/16/2022
15. The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers

    Published: 8/11/2022
16. Gen. George Marshall and Henry Stimson Built America’s WW2 War Machine and Created the Postwar Global Order

    Published: 8/9/2022
17. Bruce Lee Became a Global Celebrity by Embodying 400 Years of Western-Chinese Cultural Trade

    Published: 8/4/2022
18. John McWhorter Describes Human Language's 20,000-Year Journey from Proto-Sumerian to Ebonics

    Published: 8/2/2022
19. No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?

    Published: 7/28/2022
20. New Yorkers Feared Jack the Ripper Invaded the City in 1891 After a Prostitute Was Found Brutally Murdered

    Published: 7/26/2022