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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.
1013 episodes

Episodes

100 Years Before Ford v. Ferrari, a Horse Breeder Revolutionized Thoroughbred Racing Through a Similar Obsession With Progress

01:14:418/14/2025

Western Rome Fell Due to Germanic Immigration, Mass Inflation, and a Bloated Bureaucracy

00:39:058/12/2025

Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan is as Justified in 2025 as it was in 1945

00:52:298/7/2025

Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination

00:46:548/5/2025

Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination

01:05:417/31/2025

Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids

00:55:367/29/2025

The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint

00:56:437/24/2025

The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China

00:42:057/22/2025

How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?

00:48:467/17/2025

Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall

00:45:457/15/2025