History Unplugged Podcast

A podcast by History Unplugged

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Society & Culture History

941 Episodes

  1. The Time in 1943 That Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days in the South Pacific

    Published: 6/8/2023

  2. "Witches" Weren't Burned During The Middle Ages. That Actually Happened in the Renaissance Period.

    Published: 6/6/2023

  3. Pandemics Cause Misery and Death, But They Also Created Agriculture and Put Humans on Top of the Food Chain

    Published: 6/1/2023

  4. The 1920s Female Hungarian Murder Ring That Left 160 Dead

    Published: 5/30/2023

  5. How a Flying Ace Survived 24 Days Lost at Sea on the Pacific

    Published: 5/25/2023

  6. Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

    Published: 5/25/2023

  7. The Forage War of 1777 Saw George Washington Launch Numerous Hit-and-Run Assaults on the British that Crippled the Army

    Published: 5/23/2023

  8. Medieval Gender Roles Were Much More -- and Less -- Strict Than We Can Imagine

    Published: 5/18/2023

  9. Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War from a "Tunnel Rat"

    Published: 5/17/2023

  10. Why Do We Consider Assyria The Most Sadistically Violent Empire When Oftentimes It Wasn't?

    Published: 5/16/2023

  11. Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble

    Published: 5/11/2023

  12. A French Archeologist – Considered the Female Indiana Jones – Saved Dozens of Ancient Egyptian Temples From Flooding

    Published: 5/9/2023

  13. Eugenics is Considered a Form of Scientific Fascism Today, But 100 Years Ago It Was Universally Popular

    Published: 5/4/2023

  14. James Early Launches New Series: The Second World War in Europe

    Published: 5/3/2023

  15. Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin

    Published: 5/2/2023

  16. Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Transformation Mirrored Larger Revival Trends of 1860s America

    Published: 4/27/2023

  17. Augustine Built the Medieval World With the Help of His Mother, Concubine, Empress, and 10-Year-Old Fiancé

    Published: 4/25/2023

  18. When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866

    Published: 4/20/2023

  19. The Destructive Power of the Family, From Oedipus to the Godfather

    Published: 4/18/2023

  20. A 15th-Century Islamic Scholar Has Surprisingly Contemporary Advice on Handling Pandemics

    Published: 4/13/2023

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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.