History Unplugged Podcast

942 Episodes

1. George Washington Wasn’t the First President. He Was the Ninth

   Published: 10/10/2017
2. Anthony Esolen on Translating Dante’s Divine Comedy and Dan Brown’s Supercilious Stupidity

   Published: 10/9/2017
3. Christopher Columbus Wasn’t as Good—Or as Terrible—As You Think

   Published: 10/6/2017
4. How the 1565 Siege of Malta Led to the Golden Age of Piracy

   Published: 10/5/2017
5. Europeans in the Far East Before Marco Polo

   Published: 10/4/2017
6. The Lost Technology of Damascus Steel

   Published: 10/3/2017
7. Alexander Hamilton’s Broadway Musical is Great, but Brion McClanahan Thinks He Screwed Up America

   Published: 10/2/2017
8. Timur the Tatar’s Revenge on Bayezit—When an Emperor Literally Made a Sultan His Footstool

   Published: 9/28/2017
9. A Revolutionary-Era Soldier Fights a Modern One Hand-to-Hand. Who Wins?

   Published: 9/27/2017
10. The Origin of the Middle Finger Insult

    Published: 9/26/2017
11. Why the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England Changed Everything—Jennifer Paxton

    Published: 9/25/2017
12. The Daily Schedule of a Samurai

    Published: 9/22/2017
13. Why Did British Men Wear Wigs in the 1700s?

    Published: 9/21/2017
14. Who Had the Worst Flatulence in History?

    Published: 9/20/2017
15. Constantinople’s Walls—The Strongest Fortress Ever Built

    Published: 9/19/2017
16. How Religion Has Influenced Politics Across History, From Ancient Sumeria to the 21st Century—Paul Rahe

    Published: 9/18/2017
17. Why The Potato Led to the Rise of Modern Europe

    Published: 9/15/2017
18. When Churchill Experimented with Chemical Weapons—Giles Milton of the Unknown History Podcast

    Published: 9/14/2017
19. Dan Carlin of Hardcore History on Why the German Military Was Better in WW1 Than WW2

    Published: 9/13/2017
20. The History of Pig Latin (ig-pay atin-lay)

    Published: 9/12/2017