History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable October 28, 2025 - 46 min
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  The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945 October 23, 2025 - 49 min
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  An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York October 21, 2025 - 45 min
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  Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky? October 16, 2025 - 48 min
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  The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry October 14, 2025 - 41 min
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  Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order October 9, 2025 - 58 min
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  Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR October 7, 2025 - 38 min
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  Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead October 2, 2025 - 49 min
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  A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North September 30, 2025 - 45 min
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  The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars September 25, 2025 - 47 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.