History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Contentious Path to Emancipation January 11, 2022 - 54 min
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  Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work? January 6, 2022 - 52 min
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  Europe’s Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom January 4, 2022 - 52 min
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  Parthenon Podcast Roundtable: Who Would You Eliminate From History? (And No, You Can’t Choose Hitler) January 1, 2022 - 51 min
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  WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy December 30, 2021 - 40 min
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  The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet December 28, 2021 - 71 min
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  George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States December 23, 2021 - 37 min
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  The Allied Race to Retake Paris in 1945 Before the Nazis Could Destroy It December 21, 2021 - 29 min
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  The Son of Mississippi Slaves Who Fled to Russia and Brought Jazz to Istanbul December 16, 2021 - 57 min
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  What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption December 14, 2021 - 54 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.