993 Episodes

  1. How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War

    Published: 5/15/2025

  2. How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader

    Published: 5/13/2025

  3. Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?

    Published: 5/8/2025

  4. From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb

    Published: 5/6/2025

  5. Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2

    Published: 5/1/2025

  6. D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944

    Published: 4/29/2025

  7. Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides

    Published: 4/24/2025

  8. Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island

    Published: 4/22/2025

  9. The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War

    Published: 4/17/2025

  10. The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?

    Published: 4/15/2025

  11. A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause

    Published: 4/10/2025

  12. How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing

    Published: 4/8/2025

  13. Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?

    Published: 4/3/2025

  14. How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal

    Published: 4/1/2025

  15. Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct

    Published: 3/27/2025

  16. The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?

    Published: 3/25/2025

  17. Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US

    Published: 3/20/2025

  18. Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

    Published: 3/18/2025

  19. Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?

    Published: 3/13/2025

  20. What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole

    Published: 3/11/2025

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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.