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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

1,113 episodesEN-US

Show overview

History Unplugged Podcast has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 1,113 episodes. That works out to roughly 770 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 5 days ago, with 67 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Support.

Episodes
1,113
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.

Summer of Death: America’s Heat Wave of 1936 That Killed 12,000

Aug 20, 202645 min

New Archeological Tech Is Rewriting Everything We Know About the Ancient Past

Aug 18, 202655 min

The AI Jobs Panic of the 1890s: The Linotype Triggered Fears of Mass Layoffs but Created an Explosion in Newspaper Work

Aug 13, 202657 min

April 1945 in Berlin: The Final Month of the Third Reich

Aug 11, 20261h 1m

Writing Was Invented for Accounting and Scrawled on Baboon Bones

Aug 6, 202654 min

It Took Russia 300 Years To Destroy the Final Pieces of Genghis Khan’s Empire

Aug 4, 202649 min

The Wunderkind George Forster: Voyaging with Captain Cook at 10 and Dining with Benjamin Franklin in Paris in his 20s

Jul 30, 202643 min

Every 2 Weeks a Language Dies: Whether By Assimilation or Targeted Extinction

Jul 28, 202659 min

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against the East India Company Being Too Big to Fail

Jul 23, 202648 min

The 1873 Global Financial Meltdown that Cause 20 Years of Deflation and Destroyed 2 Empires

Jul 21, 202644 min

Johnny Appleseed's Trees Were for Booze, Not Pies, and He Dressed Like a Hobo for Marketing Purposes

Jul 16, 202653 min

All the World’s Empires Became Nations in Less Than 100 Years, and What That Means for the Next 100

Jul 14, 202649 min

Five Cambridge Graduates Became Soviet Spies and Built Stalin’s Empire

Jul 9, 202658 min

Washington’s Power Went Beyond President or General – He Was a Full-Fledged Patriarch

Jul 7, 202654 min

Abigail Adams Beat Warren Buffet’s Rate of Return and Ben Franklin Loved Debt: Personal Finance Lessons From Colonial America

Jul 2, 202654 min

The Highs and Lows of Roman Slavery: From the Emperor's Advisor to Suffocating in Sulfur Mines

Jun 30, 202656 min

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