History Unplugged Podcast
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Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards
39 mins; May 09, 2024
The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
49 mins; May 07, 2024
Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?
42 mins; May 02, 2024
The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
34 mins; April 30, 2024
Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time
51 mins; April 25, 2024
A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely
43 mins; April 23, 2024
Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals
43 mins; April 18, 2024
The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes
44 mins; April 16, 2024
A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890)
25 mins; April 12, 2024
The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured
38 mins; April 11, 2024
The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler
46 mins; April 09, 2024
Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor
41 mins; April 04, 2024
How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution
41 mins; April 02, 2024
Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions
42 mins; March 28, 2024
The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945
38 mins; March 26, 2024
WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War
34 mins; March 21, 2024
The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War
38 mins; March 19, 2024
The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America
10 mins; March 15, 2024
A Classicist Believes that Homer Directly Dictated the Iliad, and Was Also an Excellent Horseman
53 mins; March 14, 2024
In 1860, Damascus Nearly Committed Genocide Against Christians. How Did it Pull Back?
53 mins; March 12, 2024
Silk: The History of a Fabric That Was Civilization’s First Burial Cloth, Body Armor, and Much More
41 mins; March 07, 2024
Frank Lloyd Wrong – When America’s Greatest Architect Created His Masterpiece While Written-Off as a Has-Been
46 mins; March 05, 2024
Frederick Rutland, Britain’s Most Beloved WW1 Pilot, Became a Spy for Imperial Japan
36 mins; February 29, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Global Age of Piracy (17-19th Centuries)
44 mins; February 27, 2024
A WW2 Polish Diplomat Forged Thousands of Paraguayan Passports to Save Jews from the Holocaust
48 mins; February 22, 2024
Stories From Captives on The Last Slave Ship to America
29 mins; February 20, 2024
Was Union Support in the Confederacy Actually Widespread? The Alabamans Who Fought for Sherman Say 'Yes'
49 mins; February 15, 2024
The Heroes, Legends, and Liars Who Fought in WW2
35 mins; February 13, 2024
Turning Okies Into New Dealers: How 1930s Technocrats Pushed Progressivism on Dust Bowl Refugees in Federal Farm Camps
38 mins; February 08, 2024
Whistle-Stop Tours: When Trains Ruled American Presidential Elections
36 mins; February 06, 2024
The Jewish Bankers Who Built Wall Street, Financed the American Century, and Spawned Countless Conspiracy Theories
42 mins; February 01, 2024
The Ghost Army of World War 2
41 mins; January 30, 2024
How Free Time Transformed From Strolls Through Aristocratic Gardens to Doomscrolling on TikTok
31 mins; January 25, 2024
Everyday Life In a War Zone: How To Live For Years With Air Raid Sirens and Tanks in the Street
35 mins; January 23, 2024
Behind the Bulldog: Winston Churchill's Public Image vs. Private Reality, Based on Those Who Knew Him
37 mins; January 18, 2024
American Anarchy of the Early 1900s and The First U.S. War Against Domestic Extremists
40 mins; January 16, 2024
Why Armies Stopped Burning Libraries and Weaponized Them Instead
40 mins; January 11, 2024
Shining Light on the British Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Warfare, 400-1070
42 mins; January 09, 2024
The Last Ship From Hamburg: How Russian Jews Escaped Death on the Eve of World War I
47 mins; January 04, 2024
James Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied The South And Was Scapegoated for Its Loss
46 mins; January 02, 2024
The Septuagint – It Really is Greek to Me
17 mins; December 30, 2023
Benedict Arnold Was America’s Greatest Hero Before He Became Its Worst Villain
39 mins; December 28, 2023
The Sacking of Rome in 410: Caused By Sclerotic Bureaucrats or Unassimilated Barbarians?
39 mins; December 26, 2023
How Scientists Learned to Stop Deuling With Each Other (Literally) and Start Cooperating
41 mins; December 21, 2023
Victory to Defeat: The British Army, 1918–40
37 mins; December 19, 2023
The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt
36 mins; December 14, 2023
The History of Equality, and How Close Different Civilizations Were to Attaining It
44 mins; December 12, 2023
How the Catholic Church Maintained Civilization in the Lowest Points of the Middle Ages
43 mins; December 07, 2023
Marty Glickman: The New York Sports Legend Who Lost His Spot in the 1936 Olympics For Being Jewish
48 mins; December 05, 2023
Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
46 mins; November 30, 2023
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Rebuilding The Windy City Into a World Metropolis
49 mins; November 28, 2023
Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination
19 mins; November 27, 2023
Hitler, Stalin, and a Jewish Couple Who Met After Surviving Their Extermination Programs
42 mins; November 23, 2023
Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: How the British Royal Family Spied on Others and Was Spied on in Turn
43 mins; November 21, 2023
Joshua Chamberlain: From Stuttering Child to Civil War Hero to Polyglot Governor of Maine
27 mins; November 16, 2023
White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Charmed Early 1900s America
39 mins; November 14, 2023
The First Attempted Nazi Takeover of Germany: The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
38 mins; November 09, 2023
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the Making of Modern European Warfare
39 mins; November 07, 2023
How Ancient Religions Affect What We Do and Don’t Eat in 2023
38 mins; November 02, 2023
Life in Rome at the Very Height of Its Power
37 mins; October 31, 2023
How Russians Survive the 900-Day-Long Siege of Leningrad
47 mins; October 26, 2023
The Origins of the KKK and its First Death in the 1870s
39 mins; October 24, 2023
A Nazi Defector Revealed Germany’s Infiltration in All Major Governments in His 1945 Memoir
46 mins; October 19, 2023
From Orphan to RAF Hero
38 mins; October 17, 2023
The Life and Tragic Death of R101, The World’s Largest Flying Machine
45 mins; October 12, 2023
The Postwar Lives of WW2 Leaders, Both Axis and Allies
20 mins; October 11, 2023
Why Robert E. Lee was America’s Most Admired General For Over a Century
48 mins; October 10, 2023
Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Deserves a Movie?
51 mins; October 05, 2023
Charlie Chaplin vs. America
44 mins; October 03, 2023
Joe McCarthy, the Hydrogen Bomb, and Ten Fateful Months That Kicked Off the Cold War
40 mins; September 28, 2023
The SAS Began as a Lie but Became Britain’s Most Elite WW2 Commando Unit
51 mins; September 26, 2023
Eyewitnesses of History Share Stories of the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Pablo Escobar, Jonestown, and Much More
44 mins; September 22, 2023
In 1864, Nine Union Officers Escaped from a POW Camp and Trekked 300 Miles to the North
53 mins; September 21, 2023
Teddy Roosevelt Nearly Died in a Cavalry Charge Against German Machine Guns in WW1
39 mins; September 19, 2023
Beyond the Wall: What Life Was Really Like in East Germany
43 mins; September 13, 2023
How An Unlikely Cohort of Black Nurses at a New York Sanatorium Helped Cure Tuberculosis
54 mins; September 11, 2023
The Mississippi Was First Mapped by a Polyglot Priest and a College Dropout-Turned-Fur Trapper
56 mins; September 06, 2023
The Eurasian Steppes Gave Us Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Global Trade and Hybrid Camels
66 hours 43 mins; September 04, 2023
Decades of Turbulent Decolonization After WW2 Launched With The Dutch-Indonesian Wars of 1945-49
44 mins; August 30, 2023
Could the Pacific War of WW2 Have Been Entirely Avoided if Not For U.S. Diplomats in Over Their Heads?
45 mins; August 28, 2023
The WW2 Pacific Theatre of January-May 1942: When Japan Was Omnipotent and America Was a Fearful Underdog
40 mins; August 23, 2023
The History of America’s Ice Obsession: Why The U.S. Loves Frozen Drinks and Ice Rinks
42 mins; August 21, 2023
Introducing Mark Vinet's New Show: Historical Jesus
10 mins; August 20, 2023
Leyte Gulf: The Largest Naval Battle in History and the Downfall of the Japanese Navy
46 mins; August 16, 2023
Britain Controlled the Globe by Farming Out Colonial Governance to the East Indian Company and other Corporations
73 hours 31 mins; August 14, 2023
How the Monroe Doctrine Led to America Occupying Cuba, Panama, Hawaii, and Haiti
47 mins; August 10, 2023
A 1943 Translation Blunder Saved FDR, Churchill, and Eisenhower From Being Assassinated
32 mins; August 08, 2023
James Garfield – Overlooked for his Short Presidency – Was the Most Beloved Politician of Reconstruction
64 hours 29 mins; August 03, 2023
Road Tripping with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison Through Rural America In Beat-Up Model Ts
58 mins; August 01, 2023
Did the South Lose the Entire Civil War Because One General Got Lost at the Battle of Gettysburg?
53 mins; July 27, 2023
Alexander the Great’s Final Battle Nearly Killed Him with Drowning and War Elephants
65 hours 22 mins; July 25, 2023
In 1938, America Underwent a 7-Year Transformation From an Weak, Pacifist Nation to the Arsenal of Democracy
37 mins; July 20, 2023
Exploring the Aztec Empire and Indigenous Mexico
8 mins; July 19, 2023
The First War on Terror: How Europe Fought Anarchist Suicide Attacks, From 1850 to WW1
44 mins; July 18, 2023
The Italian Squad: A Group of 1920s NYPD Immigrant Detectives Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
28 mins; July 13, 2023
Conspiracy Theories Haunt the Assassination of MLK 55 Years After His Death
28 mins; July 11, 2023
Early 1800s Newspaperman William Hunter Was a British Soldier’s Son Who Built Early America
43 mins; July 06, 2023
Long Before Seabiscuit, a Civil War-era Racehorse Smashed Records and Sired Thousands of Colts
42 mins; July 04, 2023
How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
48 mins; June 29, 2023
The Coronation of Charles III and the Meaning Behind His Vestments, 5-Pound Crown, and the "Sovereign Orb"
52 mins; June 27, 2023