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History Unplugged Podcast

Scott Rank, PhD

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.

Episodes

The Empire Strikes Back: Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918

Nov 19 2020 • 0 MIN

Many thought that Germany was capable of winning World War One until the very end. Unlike World War 2, in which the Allies believed that victory was inevitable as early as 1943, this was not the ca...

Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)

Nov 17 2020 • 0 MIN

The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I. In 1914, a British army colonel named Ernest Swinton and William Hankey, secretary of the Committee for Imperial Def...

The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One

Nov 12 2020 • 0 MIN

Most Americans are indifferent about the nation's involvement in World War One (under half say the U.S. had a responsibility to fight in the war; one-in-five say it didn't). Many figure it entered...

The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917

Nov 10 2020 • 0 MIN

The best way to describe the Third Ypres (Passchendaele) Campaign of 1917. It’s ‘slog.’ When you think about a drudging act that seems to accomplish nothing, this battle is it. Mud. Mud to your wai...

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 6: The Newly-Minted Cowboy

Nov 6 2020 • 0 MIN

This is a preview of an episode in a members-only series on Teddy Roosevelt's years in the Dakota Badlands called Forging a President. Subscribe today for access to all premium episodes! https://pa...

The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?

Nov 5 2020 • 0 MIN

We’ve looked at many battles in this series, but we’ve only tangentially touched on how this war fundamentally altered European society. The Great War is the watershed between the pre-modern and ea...