History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall July 15, 2025 - 45 min
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  John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father? July 10, 2025 - 38 min
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  Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation July 8, 2025 - 49 min
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  Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead. July 3, 2025 - 63 min
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  Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths July 1, 2025 - 52 min
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  Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters June 26, 2025 - 51 min
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  Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete June 24, 2025 - 46 min
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  Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes June 19, 2025 - 48 min
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  Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade? June 17, 2025 - 44 min
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  Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State June 12, 2025 - 50 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.