993 Episodes

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

    Published: 2/15/2022

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

    Published: 2/10/2022

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

    Published: 2/8/2022

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

    Published: 2/3/2022

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

    Published: 2/2/2022

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

    Published: 2/1/2022

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

    Published: 1/27/2022

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

    Published: 1/25/2022

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

    Published: 1/20/2022

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

    Published: 1/18/2022

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

    Published: 1/13/2022

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

    Published: 1/11/2022

  13. Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work?

    Published: 1/6/2022

  14. Europe’s Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom

    Published: 1/4/2022

  15. Parthenon Podcast Roundtable: Who Would You Eliminate From History? (And No, You Can’t Choose Hitler)

    Published: 1/1/2022

  16. WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

    Published: 12/30/2021

  17. The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet

    Published: 12/28/2021

  18. George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States

    Published: 12/23/2021

  19. The Allied Race to Retake Paris in 1945 Before the Nazis Could Destroy It

    Published: 12/21/2021

  20. The Son of Mississippi Slaves Who Fled to Russia and Brought Jazz to Istanbul

    Published: 12/16/2021

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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.