History Unplugged Podcast
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Greenland is Nothing: American Nearly Acquired El Salvador, Canada, and the Kamchatka Peninsula
43 mins; April 02, 2026
From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital
56 mins; March 31, 2026
American Civilians Caught Behind Enemy Lines After Pearl Harbor, and How They Were Repatriated
47 mins; March 26, 2026
Washington's Crossing from the Other Side: Three Hessian Soldiers' Stories of Defeat and Capture at the Battle of Trenton
46 mins; March 24, 2026
From Bronze to Blood: How the Sword Became Humanity's First Murder Weapon
47 mins; March 19, 2026
Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
47 mins; March 17, 2026
How Two California Wines Shattered Centuries of French Supremacy in a Blind Taste Test
36 mins; March 12, 2026
How an Italian Engineer with 700 Knights Defeated 100,000 Ottoman Troops at the Siege Rhodes
43 mins; March 10, 2026
Why America's Military Never Became a Threat to Democracy
51 mins; March 05, 2026
How Christianity Shaped America's 500-Year Mission to Become a Holy Land
52 mins; March 03, 2026
Every Communication Breakthrough—From Cave Art to AI Video—Exists to Tell Stories
58 mins; February 26, 2026
The East’s Auschwitz: How Imperial Japan’s Secret Experimenters Escaped Justice
44 mins; February 24, 2026
The Chemistry of Conquest: Behind the USSR’s State-Sponsored (and Steroid-Powered) Olympic Glory
63 hours 32 mins; February 19, 2026
Daniel Boone’s Life as a Frontiersman and Adopted Son of a Shawnee Chief
42 mins; February 17, 2026
The Loss and Re-Discovery of the $20 Billion Imperial Spanish Treasure Ship
51 mins; February 12, 2026
Thomas Willing: The Revolutionary War Arms Dealer Who Led the First Bank of the United States
54 mins; February 10, 2026
The Man Who Sold the War: Tom Paine's Journey from Common Sense to Global Firebrand
44 mins; February 05, 2026
The Original Body Builders: How Greek Halteres and Celtic Gabal Stone Lifts Built the World's First Strongmen
48 mins; February 03, 2026
Truman’s Deep Regret at the Atomic Age He Created
57 mins; January 29, 2026
How Soccer Created African and Latin American Nations
46 mins; January 27, 2026
The Sawmill – Along With Gunpowder and the Printing Press – Created the Modern World
34 mins; January 22, 2026
Gears, Gold, and Global Peace: A Steampunk Bitcoin Journey Through an Alternate 20th Century
65 hours 18 mins; January 20, 2026
Before the Cold War, Russia and America Were the Closest of Distant Friends
46 mins; January 15, 2026
The Horrifying Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Titanic of the Great Lakes
48 mins; January 13, 2026
Inside the Deadly German U-Boats That Brought Britain to Its Knees (But Were Deadlier for Their Own Crews)
41 mins; January 08, 2026
Manifest Destiny, Powered by Coal: How “Black Gold” Conquered the American Continent
49 mins; January 06, 2026
Ancient Athens Picked Its Leaders by Lottery for Over 200 Years. Some Think This System Should Replace Electoral Democracy
51 mins; January 01, 2026
How Would Nixon Have Handled the Cuban Missile Crisis?
28 mins; December 30, 2025
Diogenes, the Father of Ancient Greek Stoicism, Loving Trolling His Audience and Could Out-Shock Borat
49 mins; December 25, 2025
Blown Off Course: How History’s Windy Turning Points Sank the Armada and Saved Japan from the Mongols
46 mins; December 23, 2025
Maps Have Bigger Problems Than the Mercator Projection. They Invent Mountain Ranges and Usually Eliminate New Zealand
45 mins; December 18, 2025
The Great Mathematicians of the Early 1900s Ran into an Unsolvable Problem. They Realized Math Made No Sense
45 mins; December 16, 2025
The American Revolution was a World War in All but Name
56 mins; December 11, 2025
How Napoleon and Churchill Used Neuroscience to Make a Better Soldier and More Loyal Public
45 mins; December 09, 2025
William F. Buckley JR.'s Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era
39 mins; December 04, 2025
What it Was Like Living Through the USSR’s Collapse
55 mins; December 02, 2025
The Battle of Agincourt, 1415: Longbowmen, Bands of Brothers, and Henry V’s Triumph
53 mins; November 27, 2025
Clarence Dillon: The Roaring 20s Wall Street Baron Who Wrote the Rules for Corporate Takeovers, Junk Bonds, and Bankruptcy
45 mins; November 25, 2025
A Utah Indian Chief Controlled the 1800s Mountain West Through Slave Trading, Building Pioneer Trails, Horse Stealing, and Becoming Mormon
60 hours 5 mins; November 20, 2025
Why Did Rome Fall? Wrong Question. How Did it Last 2,000 Years Despite Changing its Religion, Language, and Government?
53 mins; November 18, 2025
The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno
37 mins; November 13, 2025
America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict
55 mins; November 11, 2025
The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans
50 mins; November 06, 2025
Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire
60 hours 21 mins; November 04, 2025
The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years?
36 mins; October 30, 2025
The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable
46 mins; October 28, 2025
The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945
49 mins; October 23, 2025
An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York
45 mins; October 21, 2025
Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky?
48 mins; October 16, 2025
The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry
41 mins; October 14, 2025
Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order
58 mins; October 09, 2025
Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR
38 mins; October 07, 2025
Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead
49 mins; October 02, 2025
A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North
45 mins; September 30, 2025
The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars
47 mins; September 25, 2025
Camp David Looks Like a 1970s Lakeside Retreat. Why is it the Site of the World’s Biggest Political Summits?
41 mins; September 23, 2025
How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process)
53 mins; September 18, 2025
Over 200,000 Allied Troops Tried and Failed to Crush the Soviet Revolution After World War One
41 mins; September 16, 2025
How the U.S. Occupation of Japan After WW2 Forged the Most Durable Peace of the 20th Century
60 hours 19 mins; September 11, 2025
Homer Couldn't Have Written the Iliad, But He Probably Dictated it Word for Word
52 mins; September 09, 2025
Depression-Era Planners Thought They’d End Poverty with Public Housing. Instead, They Created the Projects
41 mins; September 04, 2025
The Alabaman Jacksonians Who Rejected the Confederacy and Marched with Sherman to the Sea
49 mins; September 02, 2025
Frederick Douglass’s Private Writings on Abraham Lincoln, His Strong Critiques and Stronger Praise
49 mins; August 28, 2025
The Industrial Revolution Was Supposed to Lead to Unlimited Free Time But Only Gave Us Smartphones and Endless Dopamine
31 mins; August 26, 2025
James Cook Mapped the Globe Before Dying At the Hands of Hawaiians Who Once Worshipped Him
56 mins; August 21, 2025
American Anarchists: The Original Domestic Extremists
39 mins; August 19, 2025
100 Years Before Ford v. Ferrari, a Horse Breeder Revolutionized Thoroughbred Racing Through a Similar Obsession With Progress
74 hours 41 mins; August 14, 2025
Western Rome Fell Due to Germanic Immigration, Mass Inflation, and a Bloated Bureaucracy
39 mins; August 12, 2025
Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan is as Justified in 2025 as it was in 1945
52 mins; August 07, 2025
Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination
46 mins; August 05, 2025
Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination
65 hours 41 mins; July 31, 2025
Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids
55 mins; July 29, 2025
The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint
56 mins; July 24, 2025
The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China
42 mins; July 22, 2025
How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?
48 mins; July 17, 2025
Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall
45 mins; July 15, 2025
John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father?
38 mins; July 10, 2025
Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation
49 mins; July 08, 2025
Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.
63 hours 45 mins; July 03, 2025
Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths
52 mins; July 01, 2025
Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters
51 mins; June 26, 2025
Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete
46 mins; June 24, 2025
Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes
48 mins; June 19, 2025
Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?ads)
44 mins; June 17, 2025
Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State
50 mins; June 12, 2025
MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War
50 mins; June 10, 2025
The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today
37 mins; June 05, 2025
Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant
44 mins; June 03, 2025
Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended
45 mins; May 29, 2025
How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
53 mins; May 27, 2025
How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship
46 mins; May 22, 2025
Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?
47 mins; May 20, 2025
How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War
55 mins; May 15, 2025
How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader
55 mins; May 13, 2025
Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?
54 mins; May 08, 2025
From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb
48 mins; May 06, 2025
Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2
37 mins; May 01, 2025
D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944
42 mins; April 29, 2025
Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides
44 mins; April 24, 2025
Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island
44 mins; April 22, 2025