History Unplugged Podcast
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How Archeologists Decide What We Remember—Chris Webster, Archeology Podcast Network
53 mins; March 13, 2018
When Weather Wipes Out Civilization -- Four Cases of Climate Killing Empires
51 mins; March 08, 2018
George Washington's Guide to Greatness, As Told by His Great Nephew —Austin Washington
47 mins; March 06, 2018
Medieval Health Care: Bloodletting, Primitive Surgery, and How Surprisingly Good Doctors Could Be Despite Knowing Almost Nothing
50 mins; March 01, 2018
A First-Hand Account of the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq – Maj. Scott Huesing
52 mins; February 27, 2018
Mesopotamian Civilization (2): Everyday Life of Merchants, Temple Priests, and Prostitutes
42 mins; February 22, 2018
One Nation Under (the Influence of) Alcohol: Drinking During the Civil War—Mark Will-Weber
40 mins; February 20, 2018
Mesopotamian Civilization: Gilgamesh, Sargon, and Why 1 GB of Information on Cuneiform Tablets Weights as Much as a 747
41 mins; February 15, 2018
Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole—Sheldon Bart
103 hours 59 mins; February 13, 2018
Positive Legacies of the Mongolian Empire: International Trade, Religious Tolerance, Career Opportunities, and Horse Milk
45 mins; February 08, 2018
America's Utopian Communities: From Plymouth Colony's Failed Experiments in Collective Farming to 60s Hippie Communes—Timothy Miller
42 mins; February 06, 2018
The Reasons the Mongolian Army Was Unstoppable
10 mins; February 02, 2018
Horse and Bow- A Mongol's Two Best Friends
9 mins; February 01, 2018
The Rise of Genghis- From Temujin to the Great Khan
14 mins; January 31, 2018
The Mongols Killed So Many People They Lowered the Global Temperature
12 mins; January 30, 2018
Chester A. Arthur's Presidency Was a Colossal Accident...And a Huge Success
51 mins; January 29, 2018
The Vietnam War Was About...Stealing Asia's Tin?
8 mins; January 26, 2018
About 70-90 Percent of a Society Needs to Die Before It Completely Collapses
12 mins; January 25, 2018
Why The Black Plague is Partially (But Not Completely) Responsible For the Renaissance?
8 mins; January 24, 2018
Did Mussollini Really Make the Trains Run on Time?
6 mins; January 23, 2018
How Teddy Roosevelt Became The Man He Was in the Badlands—William Hazelgrove of “Forging a President”
42 mins; January 22, 2018
The Origin of the High Five
5 mins; January 18, 2018
Nobody in the Middle Ages Thought the Earth Was Flat
6 mins; January 17, 2018
Which Leader Had the Best Shot at World Domination?
14 mins; January 16, 2018
Pinetti, the 18th-Century Illusionist and Forerunner of Chris Angel and David Copperfield—Brian Earl from the Illusion Podcast
56 mins; January 15, 2018
The Origin of the Military Salute
6 mins; January 12, 2018
Would Somebody from 1000 BC Transported to 1000 AD Notice the Difference?
11 mins; January 11, 2018
The English Channel—The 26-Mile Strait That Has Stopped Armies For Millenia
9 mins; January 10, 2018
The Richest Man in History Was the 14th c. King of Mali
7 mins; January 09, 2018
Canines in Combat: How the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment Saved Countless Lives in the Korean War—Rachel Reed
58 mins; January 08, 2018
Europe's Military Quantum Leap (1350-1650)—Patrick Wyman From Tides of History
53 mins; January 01, 2018
Christmas Special: Fr. Longenecker on Why The 3 Wise Men Were Real...But They Weren't From the Orient or Kings (Rebroadcast)
64 hours 16 mins; December 25, 2017
Bringing Abraham and Mary Todd to Life in Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”—Historical Consultant Catherine Clinton
69 hours 8 mins; December 18, 2017
Meet Nathaniel Clark Smith, the Melchizedek of Jazz—Bill McKemy
74 hours 20 mins; December 11, 2017
The Story of Human Language, From Proto Indo-European to Ebonics English—John McWhorter
54 mins; December 04, 2017
The Causes of World War 2
14 mins; December 01, 2017
The Causes of World War 1
16 mins; November 30, 2017
Is There Any Hard Evidence Hannibal Took Elephants Over the Alps?
7 mins; November 29, 2017
The Greek Military Owned The Ancient World. Why Did They Roll Over For the Romans?
8 mins; November 28, 2017
Why Food Tells Us More About a Culture Than Anything Else—Ken Alba
62 hours 56 mins; November 27, 2017
The Electoral College Isn't an Outdated 18th-Century Relic; It Keeps America From Falling Apart—Tara Ross
38 mins; November 24, 2017
Arabic Numerals Took Over 600 Years To Spread Across the West
8 mins; November 23, 2017
A Short History of the War of the Roses
7 mins; November 22, 2017
Richard Francis Burton—The Man Who Knew the Most Languages in History
7 mins; November 21, 2017
The Scopes Monkey Trial, HL Mencken, and Religion in Public Life—Darryl Hart
55 mins; November 20, 2017
The Reformation Happened 500 Years Ago, But It's More Timely Than Ever—Benjamin Wiker
39 mins; November 17, 2017
How Did You Call the Police Before the Phone Was Invented?
6 mins; November 16, 2017
All the Presidents Who Owned Slaves and How They Treated Them
6 mins; November 15, 2017
Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?
7 mins; November 14, 2017
The Lives of Slaves, Heretics, Cave-Dwellers, and Other People Ancient History Never Tells You About—Robert Garland
83 hours 27 mins; November 13, 2017
What Did Entertainment Do To The Romans?
9 mins; November 10, 2017
Syriac-The Best Language for Conquering The Ancient World
8 mins; November 09, 2017
The Most Valuable Lost Treasure That Still Exists
5 mins; November 08, 2017
Did Vikings Have Tattoos?
8 mins; November 07, 2017
Call of Duty: WW2's Historical Advisor Marty Morgan on Bringing the War to Life
82 hours 56 mins; November 06, 2017
The Codpiece—The Worst Fashion Trend in History
6 mins; November 03, 2017
Why Almost No Medieval Peasant Cottages Survive Today
7 mins; November 02, 2017
How a Nikita Khruschev Mistranslation Threatened Nuclear War
7 mins; November 01, 2017
British Girl, Nazi German POW—A Love Story
9 mins; October 31, 2017
Assassin's Creed's Resident Historian Maxime Durand on Mixing Fact with Fiction
57 mins; October 30, 2017
Cruel and Unusual (Medieval) Punishment
13 mins; October 27, 2017
The Easter Uprising of 1916
9 mins; October 26, 2017
Misattributed Quotes—No, Mark Twain Didn't Say That
8 mins; October 25, 2017
How to Build a 13th-Century Castle From Scratch
6 mins; October 24, 2017
Telling Japan’s Story in The Last Samurai, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Medal of Honor—Dan King
106 hours 56 mins; October 23, 2017
Teddy Roosevelt’s Journey Through Uncharted Amazonian Jungle
7 mins; October 20, 2017
How Teddy Roosevelt Gave a 90-minute Speech After Being Shot
5 mins; October 19, 2017
When Teddy Roosevelt Arrested Three Boat Thieves
11 mins; October 18, 2017
Carrie Nation—The Hatch-Wielding Prohibitionist
8 mins; October 17, 2017
Discovering Embarrassing Family Secrets and Famous Third Cousins with Genealogist Crista Cowan From Ancestry.com
44 mins; October 16, 2017
Why Does American Give Automatic Birthright Citizenship?
8 mins; October 13, 2017
What Was It Like To Be Enrolled at the University of Constantinople?
8 mins; October 12, 2017
John Birch-The First Death in the Cold War
7 mins; October 11, 2017
George Washington Wasn’t the First President. He Was the Ninth
6 mins; October 10, 2017
Anthony Esolen on Translating Dante’s Divine Comedy and Dan Brown’s Supercilious Stupidity
57 mins; October 09, 2017
Christopher Columbus Wasn’t as Good—Or as Terrible—As You Think
9 mins; October 06, 2017
How the 1565 Siege of Malta Led to the Golden Age of Piracy
13 mins; October 05, 2017
Europeans in the Far East Before Marco Polo
8 mins; October 04, 2017
The Lost Technology of Damascus Steel
7 mins; October 03, 2017
Alexander Hamilton’s Broadway Musical is Great, but Brion McClanahan Thinks He Screwed Up America
44 mins; October 02, 2017
Timur the Tatar’s Revenge on Bayezit—When an Emperor Literally Made a Sultan His Footstool
6 mins; September 28, 2017
A Revolutionary-Era Soldier Fights a Modern One Hand-to-Hand. Who Wins?
12 mins; September 27, 2017
The Origin of the Middle Finger Insult
6 mins; September 26, 2017
Why the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England Changed Everything—Jennifer Paxton
75 hours 14 mins; September 25, 2017
The Daily Schedule of a Samurai
10 mins; September 22, 2017
Why Did British Men Wear Wigs in the 1700s?
6 mins; September 21, 2017
Who Had the Worst Flatulence in History?
8 mins; September 20, 2017
Constantinople’s Walls—The Strongest Fortress Ever Built
11 mins; September 19, 2017
How Religion Has Influenced Politics Across History, From Ancient Sumeria to the 21st Century—Paul Rahe
49 mins; September 18, 2017
Why The Potato Led to the Rise of Modern Europe
11 mins; September 15, 2017
When Churchill Experimented with Chemical Weapons—Giles Milton of the Unknown History Podcast
26 mins; September 14, 2017
Dan Carlin of Hardcore History on Why the German Military Was Better in WW1 Than WW2
7 mins; September 13, 2017
The History of Pig Latin (ig-pay atin-lay)
9 mins; September 12, 2017
Wait, Nixon Was Innocent?—Geoff Shepard
104 hours 32 mins; September 11, 2017
How Was Alexander Able to Supply His Army Deep Into Asia?
9 mins; September 08, 2017
Daily Life During the Civil War for Non-Combatants
13 mins; September 07, 2017
Why Gutenberg Didn’t Kick Off the Reformation
5 mins; September 06, 2017
What if Japan Hadn’t Surrendered After Nagasaki?
8 mins; September 05, 2017
Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and the Barbarian Empires of the Steppe—Kenneth Harl
61 hours 17 mins; September 04, 2017
Why the Galileo Affair is Completely Misunderstood
11 mins; September 01, 2017