History Unplugged Podcast

941 Episodes

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

   Published: 5/17/2022
2. Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded in the Yugoslavian Mountains

   Published: 5/12/2022
3. The Way that Lincoln Financed the Civil War Led to Transcontinental Railroads, Public Colleges, the Homestead Act, and Income Tax

   Published: 5/10/2022
4. Lt. Sonia Vagliano Helped Liberate Concentration Camp Victims, Repatriate WW2 Refugees, All While Avoiding Landmines and Kidnapping

   Published: 5/5/2022
5. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie: The Serial Killer Family Who Terrorized 1870s Kansas

   Published: 5/3/2022
6. Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks

   Published: 4/28/2022
7. The Rise and Fall of 1970s Mob-Run Chicago

   Published: 4/26/2022
8. An Antebellum-Era Irish Maid’s Incredible Determination and Business Savvy Led to the Creation of the Kennedy Dynasty

   Published: 4/21/2022
9. Six Kentucky Nuns Founded a Hospital in 1940s War-Torn India That Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

   Published: 4/19/2022
10. A 1719 Prison Ship Transported Dozens of Women Accused of Sex Crimes to New Orleans. They Became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf

    Published: 4/14/2022
11. Introducing the Eyewitness History Podcast

    Published: 4/13/2022
12. The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

    Published: 4/12/2022
13. Most Historians Consider Warren G. Harding America’s Worst President. This One Thinks He Belongs in the Top 10

    Published: 4/7/2022
14. Why the Information Revolution Would Happened in Europe Even Without the Printing Press

    Published: 4/5/2022
15. Deeply-Held Religious Beliefs Can’t Be Easily Eradicated. That’s Why Stalin Co-Opted Russian Orthodoxy As a Ruler.

    Published: 3/31/2022
16. What “Dear John” Letters Tell Us About the Fragility of Wartime Relationships…and How They Unexpectedly Lead to Greater Camaraderie

    Published: 3/29/2022
17. Cassie Chadwick Scammed the Gilded Age Elite Out of Millions and Convinced The World She Was Andrew Carnegie’s Bastard Daughter

    Published: 3/24/2022
18. How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization

    Published: 3/21/2022
19. Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards

    Published: 3/17/2022
20. On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon

    Published: 3/15/2022