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History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast

A show about American history, world history, World Wars 1 & 2, the Civil War, and much more.

History Unplugged · Support

1,097 episodesEN-US

Show overview

History Unplugged Podcast has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 1,097 episodes. That works out to roughly 750 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 35 min and 52 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language History show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 51 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Support.

Episodes
1,097
Running
2017–2026 · 9y
Median length
44 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

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.

A Day at the Gladiatorial Games: Beast Hunts, Mass Slaughter, and Flooding the Colosseum to Reenact Roman Naval Battles

Jun 25, 202652 min

The Black Death’s Global Ripple Effects, and How They Were Felt Outside Europe

Jun 23, 202652 min

The Part of the Declaration of Independence Nobody Reads (Grievances Against King George) Is the Part That Actually Mattered

Jun 18, 202648 min

Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations

Jun 16, 202656 min

How 10 Whalers Survived Three Years Shipwrecked in the South Pacific

Jun 11, 202654 min

The Nobels Built Russia’s Oil Industry, Invented Dynamite and the Oil Tanker, But Were Still Crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution

Jun 9, 202644 min

The American Revolution Went Way Outside of America, Pulling in Caribbean Colonies, African Forts, and Chinese Trading Houses

Jun 4, 202652 min

Ford’s Auto Domination Came From a 1909 Race Across America Through Mud-Choked Roads

Jun 2, 202653 min

Al Capone’s Missing $100 Million, and the TV Journalist Who Embarrassed Himself to Find It

May 28, 202652 min

How the Dollar Created America (Part 2)

May 26, 202651 min

How the Dollar Created America (Part 1)

May 21, 202651 min

From Patriot to Pirate: How Revolutionary War Hero Sam Mason Became a River Outlaw

May 19, 202648 min

Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

May 14, 202646 min

The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win

May 12, 202659 min

Europe Dominated Because It Never Stopped Fighting Itself

May 7, 202654 min

A Land Flowing with Pork and Beef: Colonial America’s Rise to the World’s Meat Consumption Capital

May 5, 202650 min

Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years.

Apr 30, 202643 min

Tooth Enamel Tells All: Genetic Testing and Why It’s Rewriting Our Understanding of Early Medieval Migration

Apr 28, 202653 min

95% of Ancient Greek Theater Is Gone. Here's How One Classicist Resurrected 500 Lost Playwrights

Apr 23, 202637 min

How Medieval Monks Used the 7 Deadly Sins to Map Human Behavior…and LinkedIn Weaponized them Against Us

Apr 21, 202653 min