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WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)
56 mins; October 15, 2020
Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded Shells
50 mins; October 13, 2020
1915: World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees
45 mins; October 08, 2020
The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea
47 mins; October 06, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 4, Man vs. Beast
8 mins; October 02, 2020
World War 1 Trenches Were A Labyrinth of Rats, Disease, Decaying Flesh, and the Omnipresent Threat of Death
50 mins; October 01, 2020
The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager Who Suffered Disease, Hunger, and PTSD
51 mins; September 29, 2020
Germany's Plans For Total French Defeat in 1914 Failed at the Battle of the Marne
61 hours 51 mins; September 24, 2020
Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed Suicide
52 mins; September 22, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 3, Teddy Roosevelt's First Buffalo Hunt
9 mins; September 18, 2020
Europe's Pre-WW1 Alliances Were a Doomsday Machine That Pulled the Entire Continent Into War
50 mins; September 17, 2020
Introducing "Key Battles of World War One": Why Europe in 1914 Had Absolutely No Idea It Was About To Enter The Most Hellish War Ever
55 mins; September 15, 2020
2 Announcements: Key Battles of WW1 Begins Soon; History Unplugged Launches Youtube Channel
4 mins; September 11, 2020
Dreams of India's Vast Wealth Made Everyone From Ancient Greeks to Renaissance Portuguese Risk Death To Reach It
38 mins; September 10, 2020
Why 1776 -- Not 1619 -- Matters More Than Ever in 2020
48 mins; September 03, 2020
A Jewish Family Couldn’t Flee Nazi Germany. So They Wrote Letters to Strangers in America Asking For Help
56 mins; September 01, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 2
9 mins; August 28, 2020
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Ended the European Middle Ages and Sealed the Rise of the Ottomans
43 mins; August 27, 2020
George Washington's Dream of Eternal Harmony Between White Settlers and Indians, and Why It Failed
32 mins; August 25, 2020
Adolf Hitler Didn’t Survive WW2 or Secretly Flee to Argentina. Here’s Why So Many Think He Did
43 mins; August 20, 2020
God's Shadow: Why A 16th-Century Ottoman Sultan Created the Modern World
52 mins; August 18, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 1
10 mins; August 14, 2020
Making a Book in the Middle Ages Took Years and Was Literally Physical Torture
46 mins; August 13, 2020
Martha Dodd: The American Soviet Spy and Hitler’s Would-Be Lover Who Dreamed of a Communist World
42 mins; August 11, 2020
America’s First Black Fighter Pilot Was Also a Boxer, Night Club Owner, and WW2 Spy in France
46 mins; August 06, 2020
Sam Colt's Six-Shooter Launched The American Industrial Revolution and Sped Western Settlement
49 mins; August 04, 2020
The Nazi Spy Ring in America: The Third Reich's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation
48 mins; July 30, 2020
In 1200 AD, This Indian City on the Mississippi Was Larger Than London And On the Verge Of Starting an Advanced Civilization
51 mins; July 28, 2020
America's Hub of Global Trade and Culture Was and Is....the Midwest?
30 mins; July 23, 2020
How Hollywood First Depicted the Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
49 mins; July 21, 2020
A Time of Perfect American National Unity is a Myth, But Some US Origin Stories Are Better Than Others
47 mins; July 16, 2020
40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles
38 mins; July 14, 2020
George Washington’s Team of Rivals: How His Cabinet Forefathered One of America’s Most Powerful Institutions
42 mins; July 09, 2020
Lessons From James Monroe, Who Defeated a Pandemic and Overcame Partisanship
31 mins; July 07, 2020
Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World
71 hours 59 mins; July 02, 2020
Nazis Nearly Assassinated Stalin, Churchill, and FDR in 1943. What If They Had Succeeded?
38 mins; June 30, 2020
In the 1850s, A Mormon Renegade Started a Massive Pirate Colony in Michigan
51 mins; June 25, 2020
The Good Assassin: A Mossad Agent's Hunt For WW2’s “Butcher of Latvia”
25 mins; June 23, 2020
Death From Above - How Paratroopers Evolved From a WW1 Pipe Dream To A Key Part of Combined-Arms Assault
49 mins; June 18, 2020
Want to Star Your Own Nation? That's What a Family Did in 1967 When it Created "Sealand"
38 mins; June 16, 2020
Why the Galileo Affair is One of History's Most Misunderstood Events
47 mins; June 11, 2020
Henry Knox's Noble Train: How a Boston Bookseller’s Expedition Saved the American Revolution
47 mins; June 09, 2020
Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
46 mins; June 04, 2020
History’s First Global Manhunt: The Search for 18th Century Pirate Henry Every
44 mins; June 02, 2020
History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 5: Ludwig II of Bavaria
46 mins; May 28, 2020
History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 4: George III
43 mins; May 26, 2020
History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 3: Ibrahim I -- The Sultan Who Loved Fur and Drowned His Harem
50 mins; May 21, 2020
History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 2: Charles VI -- The King Who Thought He Was Made of Glass
38 mins; May 19, 2020
History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 1: Emperor Caligula--Bankrupting Rome By Appointing Your Horse Senator
46 mins; May 14, 2020
These Are History's Nine Most Insane Rulers
21 mins; May 12, 2020
D-Day Girls: The Female Spies Who Armed the French Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Made the Normandy Invasion Possible
48 mins; May 07, 2020
How Economies Bounce Back From Total Collapse: The German Economic Miracle (1948-1957)
41 mins; May 05, 2020
Discovering Your Grandfather Was Joseph Stalin's Bodyguard
67 hours 19 mins; April 30, 2020
A Confederate Civil War Submarine Was Lost 150 Years Ago. Its Reappearance Was An Unsolved Mystery...Until Now
35 mins; April 28, 2020
Reconstruction: America’s Terrible National Hangover After the Civil War
44 mins; April 23, 2020
The Lincoln Assassination: Did John Wilkes Booth Act Alone Or Was it a Confederacy-Ordered Hit?
50 mins; April 21, 2020
Japan Developed an Atomic Bomb in WW2. It Laid the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program
56 mins; April 16, 2020
The Celebrity Power Couple Who Mapped the West and Helped Cause the Civil War
31 mins; April 14, 2020
Nazi Super Science: The Third Reich's Plans for Transatlantic Bombers, Atomic Weapons, and Orbital Death Rays
46 mins; April 09, 2020
Why Dan Carlin Believes That The End is Always Near
62 hours 5 mins; April 07, 2020
American Sherlock -- Meet The 1920s Forensic Scientist Who Created Modern CSI
31 mins; April 02, 2020
How Does a Nation Have an Identity When Its People Speak Different Languages? Ask Canada (Quebec Specifically)
46 mins; March 31, 2020
Scott's Book "History's 9 Most Insane Rulers" Launch Update and Bonus Offer
2 mins; March 30, 2020
How the Florida of the Roaring 20s Created Modern America and Triggered the Great Depression
36 mins; March 26, 2020
History Has Lots of Great Ideas About What To Do During a Quarantine
46 mins; March 24, 2020
The Civil War in the American West: When Multi-Racial Armies Fought Over Gold Mines and Indian Lands
64 hours 6 mins; March 19, 2020
St. Patrick Didn't Get Rid of Any Snakes, But He Is The Patron Saint of Exterminators
42 mins; March 17, 2020
COVID-19 is Nothing Compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu
59 mins; March 12, 2020
The Lost History of James Madison's Black Family
63 hours 42 mins; March 10, 2020
The Cold War -- Not WW2 -- Was Arguably the Defining Event of the 20th Century
47 mins; March 05, 2020
Fight House: Cutthroat White House Rivalries From Truman to Trump
35 mins; March 03, 2020
How An American Tank Gunner Successfully Dueled with Panzers in World War Two
62 hours 59 mins; February 27, 2020
New York Has Been America's Capital of Spying Since the Beginning of the U.S.
58 mins; February 25, 2020
The 1881 Expedition to Reach Farthest North Led to Starvation, Madness, and Glory
55 mins; February 20, 2020
The Terrifying Conquests of Hannibal of Carthage
46 mins; February 18, 2020
The Negro Leagues Made Baseball a Global Sport and Kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement
64 hours 15 mins; February 13, 2020
The Royal Touch: When British and French Kings Were Thought to Have Healing Powers
53 mins; February 11, 2020
The Worst Gambling Scandal in NCAA History Led to an Unlikely Story of Redemption
43 mins; February 06, 2020
The Confederate States of America, An Alternate History: 1865-2020
51 mins; February 04, 2020
An Admiral's List of the 10 Greatest Admirals in History
30 mins; January 30, 2020
Pearl Harbor May Have Been Avoided If a Lone US Diplomat Had Gotten His Way
44 mins; January 28, 2020
How 20K Marines Held Out Against 300K Chinese Soldiers At The Chosin Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle
56 mins; January 23, 2020
Dragons Never Existed. So Why Are They Found in Absolutely Every Ancient Folklore?
41 mins; January 21, 2020
The Crusades, From Both Arab and European Perspectives
52 mins; January 16, 2020
How the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda Radicalized Germany
40 mins; January 14, 2020
Star Spangled Scandal: The Antebellum Murder Trial that Changed America
48 mins; January 09, 2020
237 Years After the Revolutionary War, Some Say It Was a Mistake. Are They Right?
45 mins; January 07, 2020
George Washington's Spies: The Culper Ring, Nathan Hale, and the Plot to Capture Benedict Arnold
70 hours 57 mins; January 02, 2020
The Revolutionary War Comes to an End
57 mins; December 31, 2019
The Battle of Yorktown: Britain's Surrender in the Revolutionary War
28 mins; December 26, 2019
The Siege of Yorktown: American and France Corner Britain
26 mins; December 24, 2019
King’s Mountain: The Revolutionary War's Largest 'All-American Fight'
29 mins; December 19, 2019
The Treason of Benedict Arnold
41 mins; December 17, 2019
How France and America Cooperated During the Revolutionary War
58 mins; December 12, 2019
American Politicians Nearly Had George Washington Fired During the Revolutionary War
38 mins; December 10, 2019
The Philadelphia Campaign: When Britain Took Over Ben Franklin's House
44 mins; December 05, 2019
The Battle of Saratoga—Benedict Arnold, An American Hero
47 mins; December 03, 2019
Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
21 mins; November 28, 2019
The Saratoga Campaign: Turning Point of the Revolutionary War
37 mins; November 27, 2019
The Battle of Princeton Proves George Washington Was So Lucky, It Was Almost Supernatural
30 mins; November 26, 2019
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