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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...
Why did the West dominate all rivals on Earth? How did a group of states that were nearly wiped out in the late Middle Ages by enemies to th...
When European settlers arrived in North America, they enjoyed a level of meat consumption that was absolutely unimaginable in the Old World....
In America's first hundred years, the animal you were most likely to see was a passenger pigeon. And you saw a lot of them. Flocks were so n...
Europe's borders in the Middle Ages were created by one man, and he wasn't even born in the Middle Ages, nor was he Christian. It was Empero...
Of the estimated 1,500 plays written in ancient Greece, only 33 complete works survive today—the rest were lost because medieval scrib...
When medieval historian Peter Jones found himself spiraling into depression while teaching at a frigid Siberian university with icicles spro...
In August 1863, as Lee's army retreated from Gettysburg and Vicksburg fell to Grant, the Union's Anaconda Plan deployed hundreds of ships to...
Pompeii's story is usually told through the lens of catastrophe—perfectly preserved bodies frozen in ash, a civilization erased in hou...
When St. Francis of Assisi was near death in 1226, he joked with companions that his corpse would be practically as valuable as gold. And he...
The alphabet you're reading right now is a 3,800-year-old archaeological artifact, preserving ancient decisions in plain sight—from th...
America's desire to expand its borders has existed since its first colonies – from attempts to settle beyond the Appalachian Mountains...
When St. Petersburg nobility mockingly called Moscow a "big village," in the 19th century – a time when they lived in all the excess f...
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, more than ten thousand Americans living abroad became trapped in Japanese-controlled territories, and with rumo...
Emanuel Leutze's iconic painting Washington Crossing the Delaware shows the general standing heroically at the bow of his boat, staring towa...
For nearly two thousand years, swords reigned as humanity's weapon of choice—the first tools designed exclusively to kill other humans...
Science progresses through breakthrough discoveries, but behind many of the field's greatest advancements lies a darker history of scientifi...
In 1976, nine French wine judges did the unthinkable: they blindly selected two California wines over France's most elite vintages in what b...
Throughout the 16th century, one man stood between the Ottoman Empire and European domination, yet his name has been largely forgotten. Gabr...
America's Founding Fathers feared a standing army would inevitably threaten civilian governance. Yet 250 years later, the U.S. military rema...
Thomas Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists famously described the First Amendment as building a "wall of separation between chur...
There's an argument to be made that every technology advance in communication – from cave paintings to fake AI movie trailers –...
During the Holocaust, Josef Mengele discarded every medical ethic to perform horrific human experiments at Auschwitz, including non-consensu...
Since the era of Joseph Stalin, Moscow's rulers have sent Russian athletes into the Summer and Winter Olympics with one command: you must wi...
Daniel Boone is considered one of the United States' first folk heroes for his exploration beyond the thirteen colonies into Kentucky. His e...
The most valuable shipwreck of all time is the San José galleon—an 18th century Spanish ship that carried 11 million gold coins...
America's revolutionary war would have almost certainly been lost if not for the colony's wealthiest merchant. Thomas Willing was a prominen...
Most of us only know Thomas Paine for one thing: writing Common Sense in 1776, which helped kickstart the Revolution by selling hundreds of...
Fad workouts have been with us for decades, but they go back much further than we realize. Long before CrossFit, Zumba, P90X, Tae Box, Jazze...
In the eight decades since the United States deployed the most destructive weapon ever used, conventional wisdom has held that American lead...
National pride often comes from shared heritage—like a common language or ethnic background. Religious Nationalism can be seen in hist...
The wind-powered sawmill was invented around 1592 in the Netherlands, immediately transforming the nature of labor and industry. This mechan...
We have paper money today because it functioned as an IOU, certifying that the holder could redeem it for an equivalent amount of physical g...
Nearly a century of Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia hide the incredibly close friendship that the two nations enjoyed...
One of the worst nautical disasters in recent American history is the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. On November 10, 1975, the "storm...
Over the course of World War II, Germany's submariners sank over three thousand Allied ships, nearly three-quarters of Allied shipping losse...
America's growth from a rugged frontier nation to the globe's industrial superpower in the space of 100 years can be explained by one word:...
For almost two centuries, Ancient Athens—the most successful democracy in history—selected citizens by lottery to fill governmen...
The "Madman Theory" was Richard Nixon's foreign policy strategy during the Vietnam War era, where he deliberately cultivated an image of bei...
The famous street artist Banksy shocked the art world in 2018 when his painting, Girl with Balloon , partially shredded itself moments after...
The greatest energy source for civilization before the steam engine was wind. It powered the global economy in the Age of Sail. Wind-powered...
Maps have always had problems. Five hundred years ago, maps were wildly inaccurate simply because cartographers were drawing the edge of the...
In the 1800s, it seemed like mathematics was a solved problem. The paradoxes in the field were resolved, and even areas like advanced calcul...
The Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775, known as the "shot heard round the world," marked the first military engagements of the...
The brain acts in strange ways during wartime. Even in active combat situations, when soldiers are one mistake away from death, many can't f...
William F. Buckley Jr., the charismatic intellectual who defined modern American conservatism, was famously skilled at forging friendships a...
The Collapse of the Soviet Union was twice as devastating as the Great Depression for those who lived there. It immediately led to widesprea...
From Shakespeare's 'band of brothers' speech to its appearances in numerous films, Agincourt rightfully has a place among a handful of confl...
J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Charles E. Mitchell are names that come to mind when thinking of the most prominent icons of wealth an...
The American Indian leader Wakara was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West. He and his pan-trib...
Rome began as a pagan, Latin-speaking city state in central Italy during the early Iron Age and ended as a Christian, Greek-speaking empire...