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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How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?
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2025-01-21
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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
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2025-01-16
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200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire
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2025-01-14
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What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
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2025-01-09
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Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?
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2025-01-07
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A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water
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2025-01-02
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The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?
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2024-12-31
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A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War
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2024-12-26
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While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines
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2024-12-24
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Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
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2024-12-19
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How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
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2024-12-17
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony
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2024-12-12
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When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?
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2024-12-10
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)
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2024-12-05
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How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?
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2024-12-03
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812
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2024-11-28
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The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships
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2024-11-26
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War
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2024-11-21
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Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?
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2024-11-19
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia
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2024-11-14
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