History Unplugged Podcast
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England's Last Knights Fought in Armor Until the 1640s
Oct 15, 202641 min
Vikings Went from Christendom’s Terror to Its Best Crusaders
Oct 13, 202646 min
Why the Most Powerful Muslim Rulers in the Middle East Considered the Crusaders a Minor Annoyance
Oct 8, 202647 min
The Gold Rush Created Get Rich Quick Schemes and ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
Oct 6, 202646 min
Every Fight in American History Was Also a Fight Over Who Gets to Eat Good Bread
Oct 1, 202647 min
Romans Quarried Marble, Cathars Hid in Caves, and Nazis Built Tank Turrets in These Same Mountains
Sep 29, 202645 min
The Roman Emperor Who Spread Christianity Most Was Arguably Augustus (Even Though He Died in 14 AD)
Sep 24, 202652 min
5,000 Years of Punctuation: Why It Terrified Roman Scholars and Started a Russian Revolution
Sep 22, 202651 min
Charlemagne Dreamed of a Sword With Four Words on It and They Predicted Exactly How His Dynasty Would Fall
Sep 17, 20261h 6m
Cicero—Rome’s Greatest Orator—Saved the Capital From Insurrection, But Couldn’t Save the Republic From Collapse
Sep 15, 202652 min
Do Napoleons or Hitlers Really Matter? Whether Leaders Make History or Their Societies Make Them
Sep 10, 202644 min
Washington’s Most Revolutionary Moment Was Surrendering Absolute Power
Sep 8, 202654 min
Japan's Military Refused to Surrender Even After Two Atomic Bombs and a Coup Nearly Succeeded
Sep 3, 202645 min
Is Patton America’s Most Overrated General?
Sep 1, 202652 min
Stalin’s Ordered Killing of Trotsky Created the Playbook for Modern Political Assassination
Aug 27, 202648 min
Belisarius Reconquered Africa and Italy for Rome. Why Did Rome Destroy Him for It?
Aug 25, 202652 min
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
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