993 Episodes

  1. Six Kentucky Nuns Founded a Hospital in 1940s War-Torn India That Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

    Published: 4/19/2022

  2. 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

  3. Introducing the Eyewitness History Podcast

    Published: 4/13/2022

  4. The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

    Published: 4/12/2022

  5. Most Historians Consider Warren G. Harding America’s Worst President. This One Thinks He Belongs in the Top 10

    Published: 4/7/2022

  6. Why the Information Revolution Would Happened in Europe Even Without the Printing Press

    Published: 4/5/2022

  7. Deeply-Held Religious Beliefs Can’t Be Easily Eradicated. That’s Why Stalin Co-Opted Russian Orthodoxy As a Ruler.

    Published: 3/31/2022

  8. What “Dear John” Letters Tell Us About the Fragility of Wartime Relationships…and How They Unexpectedly Lead to Greater Camaraderie

    Published: 3/29/2022

  9. 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

  10. How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization

    Published: 3/21/2022

  11. Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards

    Published: 3/17/2022

  12. On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon

    Published: 3/15/2022

  13. A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky

    Published: 3/10/2022

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

    Published: 3/8/2022

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

    Published: 3/3/2022

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

    Published: 3/2/2022

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

    Published: 3/1/2022

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

    Published: 2/24/2022

  19. 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

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

    Published: 2/17/2022

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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.