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 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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15 hr workweek
10 juin
I do like the podcast a lot. From time to time it goes a little left for me in revisionist history, CSA for example. Well, nice educated Englishman seems to make some good well-rounded points but seriously an ancient 15 hr. work week is ridiculous. Has he ever been camping / survival trek like the Indias did for Brave initiation, alone with limited supplies or no food. It’s sunup to sundown work. Utopian & socialist academic stuff. However, great point on effective tasks being focused, done quickly in one fell swoop. Yes indeed. Agree, being in an office tower at a desk for 9 hrs. is not healthy for us.
Always learn something news
3 oct.
Discusses well known and lesser known stories from history with author and historians.
Informative and interesting
3 oct.
As a self proclaimed history nerd, I appreciate the educational aspect of this podcast. The wide range of topics keeps me entertained as well. Recently, I listened to the Hiroshima first hand account episode and the awful and horrific accounts from survivors. I would have liked to hear that it all could have been avoided if Japan had not attacked the US in the first place. The author was surprised he did not feel resentment towards America when interviewing the survivors, but again, the US was not the aggressor.
Dennis D. Karpf
8 sept.
The episode on the Christian Bible is simplistic and misrepresented. Codex and printing were dependent upon literacy originating with the Jews. See Botticini, et al. “The Chosen Few” for a more accurate history. Jewish communities had 90 o/o literacy whereas early Christian had 10o/o. The book in conversation through the Reformation was the Hebrew Bible or Torah which influenced the antagonism and hatred of the early Church beginning with Constantine. Later the Dutch Republic and the American Puritans focused on Torah not Christian Scripture. Likewise with other cultures in North America.
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- CréationHistory Unplugged
- Années d’activité2017 - 2024
- Épisodes922
- ClassificationTous publics
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