History Unplugged Podcast

A podcast by History Unplugged

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Society & Culture History

941 Episodes

  1. A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky

    Published: 3/10/2022

  2. Does Waging War Viciously Actually Save Lives? A Look at the WW2 Decisions to Firebomb Tokyo and Drop Atomic Bombs

    Published: 3/8/2022

  3. Successes and Failures of The Last Century of U.S. Presidents, From Harding to Trump

    Published: 3/3/2022

  4. Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise of Imperial Japan

    Published: 3/2/2022

  5. Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

    Published: 3/1/2022

  6. A Real-Life French Serial Killer Inspired Dostoyevsky to Write “Crime and Punishment”

    Published: 2/24/2022

  7. The NAACP Leader Who Passed As White, Infiltrated Lynching Rings, Architected ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, and Ended His Life in Scandal

    Published: 2/22/2022

  8. How Clocks Created Earth’s First Global Supply Chain in the 1700s – And Keep GPS Alive Today

    Published: 2/17/2022

  9. Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Would You Keep From Dying Too Soon? (And You Can’t Choose JFK)

    Published: 2/15/2022

  10. Assassination Attempts of U.S. President – From JFK to Joe Biden

    Published: 2/10/2022

  11. No, the Ancient Greeks Weren’t Color Blind. They Justed Had Unique Ways to Describe the World

    Published: 2/8/2022

  12. The Severing Of a Sea Captain’s Ear Led to a Global War Between Spain and Britain in the 1740s

    Published: 2/3/2022

  13. Future History: The Story Behind '2001: A Space Odyssey'

    Published: 2/2/2022

  14. The Last King of America: George III, His Battles With Madness, and Being a Thoroughly Underrated Monarch

    Published: 2/1/2022

  15. Dragons Exist In Nearly Every Culture’s Mythology As a Mirror of Their Fears. What Are Ours?

    Published: 1/27/2022

  16. Harry Guggenheim: The Elon Musk of the Gilded Age

    Published: 1/25/2022

  17. Are Cities Humanity’s Greatest Invention or an Incubator of Disease, Crime, and Horrific Exploitation?

    Published: 1/20/2022

  18. Revolutionary Monsters: Why Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Others Turned Liberation into Tyranny

    Published: 1/18/2022

  19. Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor

    Published: 1/13/2022

  20. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Contentious Path to Emancipation

    Published: 1/11/2022

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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.