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History Unplugged 1433 - Charlemagne Dreamed of a Sword With Four Words on It and They Predicted Exactly How His Dynasty Would Fall

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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Charlemagne Dreamed of a Sword With Four Words on It and They Predicted Exactly How His Dynasty Would Fall

Cicero—Rome’s Greatest Orator—Saved the Capital From Insurrection, But Couldn’t Save the Republic From Collapse

Do Napoleons or Hitlers Really Matter? Whether Leaders Make History or Their Societies Make Them

Washington’s Most Revolutionary Moment Was Surrendering Absolute Power

Japan's Military Refused to Surrender Even After Two Atomic Bombs and a Coup Nearly Succeeded

Is Patton America’s Most Overrated General?

Stalin’s Ordered Killing of Trotsky Created the Playbook for Modern Political Assassination

Belisarius Reconquered Africa and Italy for Rome. Why Did Rome Destroy Him for It?

Summer of Death: America’s Heat Wave of 1936 That Killed 12,000

New Archeological Tech Is Rewriting Everything We Know About the Ancient Past

The AI Jobs Panic of the 1890s: The Linotype Triggered Fears of Mass Layoffs but Created an Explosion in Newspaper Work

April 1945 in Berlin: The Final Month of the Third Reich

Writing Was Invented for Accounting and Scrawled on Baboon Bones

It Took Russia 300 Years To Destroy the Final Pieces of Genghis Khan’s Empire

The Wunderkind George Forster: Voyaging with Captain Cook at 10 and Dining with Benjamin Franklin in Paris in his 20s

Every 2 Weeks a Language Dies: Whether By Assimilation or Targeted Extinction

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against the East India Company Being Too Big to Fail

The 1873 Global Financial Meltdown that Cause 20 Years of Deflation and Destroyed 2 Empires

Johnny Appleseed's Trees Were for Booze, Not Pies, and He Dressed Like a Hobo for Marketing Purposes

All the World’s Empires Became Nations in Less Than 100 Years, and What That Means for the Next 100

Five Cambridge Graduates Became Soviet Spies and Built Stalin’s Empire

Washington’s Power Went Beyond President or General – He Was a Full-Fledged Patriarch

Abigail Adams Beat Warren Buffet’s Rate of Return and Ben Franklin Loved Debt: Personal Finance Lessons From Colonial America

The Highs and Lows of Roman Slavery: From the Emperor's Advisor to Suffocating in Sulfur Mines

A Day at the Gladiatorial Games: Beast Hunts, Mass Slaughter, and Flooding the Colosseum to Reenact Roman Naval Battles

The Black Death’s Global Ripple Effects, and How They Were Felt Outside Europe

The Part of the Declaration of Independence Nobody Reads (Grievances Against King George) Is the Part That Actually Mattered

Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations

How 10 Whalers Survived Three Years Shipwrecked in the South Pacific

The Nobels Built Russia’s Oil Industry, Invented Dynamite and the Oil Tanker, But Were Still Crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution

The American Revolution Went Way Outside of America, Pulling in Caribbean Colonies, African Forts, and Chinese Trading Houses

Ford’s Auto Domination Came From a 1909 Race Across America Through Mud-Choked Roads

Al Capone’s Missing $100 Million, and the TV Journalist Who Embarrassed Himself to Find It

How the Dollar Created America (Part 2)

How the Dollar Created America (Part 1)

From Patriot to Pirate: How Revolutionary War Hero Sam Mason Became a River Outlaw

Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win

Europe Dominated Because It Never Stopped Fighting Itself

A Land Flowing with Pork and Beef: Colonial America’s Rise to the World’s Meat Consumption Capital

Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years.

Tooth Enamel Tells All: Genetic Testing and Why It’s Rewriting Our Understanding of Early Medieval Migration

95% of Ancient Greek Theater Is Gone. Here's How One Classicist Resurrected 500 Lost Playwrights

How Medieval Monks Used the 7 Deadly Sins to Map Human Behavior…and LinkedIn Weaponized them Against Us

1,000% Profit Per Voyage: The Economics of Civil War Smuggling and Blockade Running

The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Lives Cut Short When Vesuvius Erupted, Including a Fish Sauce Tycoon and an Isis Priest

The Body Worth Stealing: Why Medieval Cities Fought Over Francis of Assisi’s Corpse

The Alphabet as Artifact: How Egyptian Pictograms Became Your ABCs

Greenland is Nothing: American Nearly Acquired El Salvador, Canada, and the Kamchatka Peninsula

From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital