History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno November 13, 2025 - 37 min
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  America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict November 11, 2025 - 55 min
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  The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans November 6, 2025 - 50 min
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  Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire November 4, 2025 - 60 min
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  The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years? October 30, 2025 - 36 min
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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

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.