For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features long-form interviews with best-selling authors who have written about everything. Topics include gruff World War II generals who flew with airmen on bombing raids, a war horse who gained the rank of sergeant, and presidents who gave their best speeches while drunk.

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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides 2025-04-24
Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island 2025-04-22
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War 2025-04-17
The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve? 2025-04-15
A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause 2025-04-10
How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing 2025-04-08
Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages? 2025-04-03
How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal 2025-04-01
Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct 2025-03-27
The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them? 2025-03-25
Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US 2025-03-20
Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell 2025-03-18
Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways? 2025-03-13
What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole 2025-03-11
Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball 2025-03-06
How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco 2025-03-04
Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road 2025-02-27
Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works) 2025-02-25
The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers 2025-02-20
Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers? 2025-02-18
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