History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  Weather Itself Was WW2's Fiercest Enemy: The Sinking of the USS Macaw January 26, 2023 - 34 min
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  A Short History of War January 24, 2023 - 50 min
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  The 1911 McNamara Bros. Murder Trial was the OJ Simpson/Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Case of Its Time January 19, 2023 - 34 min
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  Daniel Webster -- Perhaps History’s Greatest Orator -- Turned Virginians and New Yorkers Into Americans January 17, 2023 - 37 min
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  How Ottoman Sultan Suleyman Conquered Most of Europe and the Mediterranean While Avoiding Assassination January 12, 2023 - 44 min
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  Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair January 10, 2023 - 45 min
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  A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering) January 5, 2023 - 30 min
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  J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies January 3, 2023 - 52 min
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  The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness December 29, 2022 - 43 min
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  Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera December 27, 2022 - 31 min

About History Unplugged Podcast

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.

Meet your Host

Scott Rank is the host of the History Unplugged Podcast and a PhD in history who specialized in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Before going down the academic route he worked as a journalist in Istanbul. He has written 12 history books on topics ranging from lost Bronze Age civilizations to the Age of Discovery. Some of his books include The Age of Illumination: Science, Technology, and Reason in the Middle Ages and History’s 9 Most Insane Rulers.. Learn more about him by going to scottrankphd.com.