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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... Read more

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George Washington as Man, General, Leader, and Mule Pioneer

George Washington as Man, General, Leader, and Mule Pioneer

George Washington is nearly as famous for his character as he is a general and statesman. In this episode we look at his... Read more

30 Jul 2019

50mins

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Why Your Favorite Presidents (Lincoln, Washington) Actually Screwed Up America—Brion McClanahan

Why Your Favorite Presidents (Lincoln, Washington) Actually Screwed Up America—Brion McClanahan

Quick – name your favorite president. You probably said Washington or Lincoln, right? C'mon. You can be more original th... Read more

19 May 2017

44mins

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Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Opportunism or a Sincere Gesture?

Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Opportunism or a Sincere Gesture?

History Channel documentaries and pop historians have argued that when Constantine converted to Christianity in the four... Read more

5 Nov 2019

54mins

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Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 1: Why the Middle Ages, Not the Renaissance, Created the Modern World

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 1: Why the Middle Ages, Not the Renaissance, Created the Modern World

The popular view of the Middle Ages is a thousand-year period of superstition and ignorance, punctuated by witch burning... Read more

19 Feb 2019

45mins

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The Causes of World War 1

The Causes of World War 1

The reasons for the Great War go way beyond the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Learn about the causes of one of human... Read more

30 Nov 2017

16mins

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Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and the Barbarian Empires of the Steppe—Kenneth Harl

Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and the Barbarian Empires of the Steppe—Kenneth Harl

Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan loom large in Western popular consciousness as two of history’s most fearsome warrior-le... Read more

4 Sep 2017

1hr 1min

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COVID-19 is Nothing Compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu

COVID-19 is Nothing Compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu

COVID19, aka - the coronavirus, has triggered mass quarantines and spooked markets across the globe. To date, over 3,000... Read more

12 Mar 2020

59mins

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George Washington Wasn’t the First President. He Was the Ninth

George Washington Wasn’t the First President. He Was the Ninth

George Washington was the First President of the United States. This is the most basic fact that an American school chil... Read more

10 Oct 2017

6mins

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The History of Slavery, Part 1: Shackled and Chained in the Ancient World

The History of Slavery, Part 1: Shackled and Chained in the Ancient World

When asked “what is slavery?” most Americans or Westerners would respond with a description of an African slave in the a... Read more

19 Jul 2018

1hr 16mins

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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 1: Background to the Civil War

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 1: Background to the Civil War

The origins of the Civil War go back decades, even before the United States became an independent nation The federal uni... Read more

18 Sep 2018

46mins

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Why the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England Changed Everything—Jennifer Paxton

Why the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England Changed Everything—Jennifer Paxton

If you were to ask a scholar about one critical moment after which the history of the English-speaking world would never... Read more

25 Sep 2017

1hr 15mins

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Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1

Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1

A stock trope of literature is the king who believes that his kingdom will last forever, only to see it collapse under h... Read more

30 Aug 2018

1hr 8mins

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Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?

Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?

The Spanish conquistadors have rightly been called out for their brutal treatment and enslavement of native populations.... Read more

14 Nov 2017

7mins

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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 1: The World of the American Revolution

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 1: The World of the American Revolution

Grab your musket and your portion of rum, Yankee, because we have a war to fight! James Early returns to the History Unp... Read more

17 Sep 2019

42mins

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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 13: The Battle of Gettysburg

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 13: The Battle of Gettysburg

The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg stopped Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. It was the deadliest battle of the C... Read more

8 Nov 2018

1hr 24mins

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Dan Carlin of Hardcore History on Why the German Military Was Better in WW1 Than WW2

Dan Carlin of Hardcore History on Why the German Military Was Better in WW1 Than WW2

I was honored on this episode to interview Dan Carlin, whose podcast Hardcore History is the biggest history podcast in ... Read more

13 Sep 2017

7mins

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Ulysses S. Grant Was (Mostly) Responsible For Winning the Civil War. Robert E. Lee Was Responsible For Losing It.

Ulysses S. Grant Was (Mostly) Responsible For Winning the Civil War. Robert E. Lee Was Responsible For Losing It.

Ever since the end of the Civil War, a mythology of Robert E. Lee's military genius was developed by Confederate veteran... Read more

12 Apr 2018

1hr 8mins

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Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History

Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History

How did an initially small religious movement envelope such enormous areas of the world? That is precisely what the comm... Read more

17 Jan 2019

50mins

Ranked #19

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How Texas Almost Became German

How Texas Almost Became German

Like much of the United States, Texas has a large popular whose ancestors originated in Germany. But Texas takes it a st... Read more

28 Jul 2017

5mins

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Everything You Need to Know About D-Day: H-Hour, Weapons Info, and First-Hand Accounts via Soldiers, Beachmasters, and the French Resistance

Everything You Need to Know About D-Day: H-Hour, Weapons Info, and First-Hand Accounts via Soldiers, Beachmasters, and the French Resistance

The D-Day landing of June 6, 1944, ranks as the boldest and most successful large-scale invasion in military history.On ... Read more

14 Jun 2018

1hr

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