History Unplugged Podcast podcast

History Unplugged Podcast

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.

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.

 

#953

The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed ...

The United States is the most heavily armed nation in the world, with an estimated 400 mil... more

20 hrs Ago

56 MINS

56:22

20 hrs Ago


#952

Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World

For millennia, humans eked out survival atop the surface of the Earth and land had no uniq... more

04 Feb 2025

44 MINS

44:39

04 Feb 2025


#951

Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and P...

When Benjamin Franklin died on April 12, 1790, he made a final bet on the future of the Un... more

30 Jan 2025

38 MINS

38:07

30 Jan 2025


#950

When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash o...

For generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble familie... more

28 Jan 2025

44 MINS

44:24

28 Jan 2025


#949

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

The Old English poem Beowulf is a vital source of information on history, language, story ... more

23 Jan 2025

1 HR 09 MINS

1:09:02

23 Jan 2025


#948

How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last...

Why has gold reigned as the world’s go-to precious metal for over 2,600 years? It&rs... more

21 Jan 2025

36 MINS

36:19

21 Jan 2025


#947

The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest... more

16 Jan 2025

47 MINS

47:28

16 Jan 2025


#946

200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire

The German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 was the largest popular uprising in Western Eu... more

14 Jan 2025

54 MINS

54:42

14 Jan 2025


#945

What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption

The medieval world – for all its plagues, papal indulgences, castles, and inquisitio... more

09 Jan 2025

53 MINS

53:30

09 Jan 2025


#944

Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?

On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells' War of the Wo... more

07 Jan 2025

48 MINS

48:41

07 Jan 2025


#943

A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Wat...

On August 1, 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton and his crew sailed from England... more

02 Jan 2025

43 MINS

43:41

02 Jan 2025


#942

The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?

A house on the Florida coast. An assisted living program. A lively retirement community. M... more

31 Dec 2024

42 MINS

42:28

31 Dec 2024


#941

A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great ...

In New York City, 1913, French philosopher Henri Bergson gave a lecture at Columbia Univer... more

26 Dec 2024

43 MINS

43:28

26 Dec 2024