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History Unplugged Podcast
Scott Rank
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.
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The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
April 30, 2024 - 35 min
Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time
April 25, 2024 - 51 min
Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals
April 18, 2024 - 43 min
The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured
April 11, 2024 - 38 min
Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor
April 4, 2024 - 41 min
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.