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History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
Topics: History · Society & Culture
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...
Latest episodes
- The Mongols on the High Seas: The Yuan Dynasty's Massive Navy
- Amazon Won’t Destroy Bookshops Because 600 Years of Disruptions Haven’t Either
- The Ancient World's Best Military Technology Was Constantinople's City Walls
- Edgar Allen Poe’s Self-Sabotage, Early Death, and Path to Becoming America’s Greatest Poet
- England's Last Knights Fought in Armor Until the 1640s
- Vikings Went from Christendom’s Terror to Its Best Crusaders
- Why the Most Powerful Muslim Rulers in the Middle East Considered the Crusaders a Minor Annoyance
- The Gold Rush Created Get Rich Quick Schemes and ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
- Every Fight in American History Was Also a Fight Over Who Gets to Eat Good Bread
- Romans Quarried Marble, Cathars Hid in Caves, and Nazis Built Tank Turrets in These Same Mountains
History Unplugged Podcast is No. 62 in History on Apple Podcasts in the US today. The latest episode came out on October 29, 2026. A new episode comes out about every two days.
Today's places
| Chart | Place | Since yesterday |
|---|---|---|
| US: History | 62 | ▲1 |
| Canada: History | 146 | ▼28 |
| Australia: History | 141 | ▲4 |
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