History Unplugged Podcast

Salem Radio

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...

Episodes

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

American Civilians Caught Behind Enemy Lines After Pearl Harbor, and How They Were Repatriated

Washington's Crossing from the Other Side: Three Hessian Soldiers' Stories of Defeat and Capture at the Battle of Trenton