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Unknown History provides you with surprising, quirky, and remarkable tales from the past, so you can pretend you paid attention in history class. Hosted by renowned author Giles Milton. To d...
Hear Rasheed Newson, Jack Lowery and Bill Goldstein discuss Rasheed's new book My Government Means to Kill Me. They discuss the inspiration...
Unknown History is on hiatus between seasons, but in the meantime, we hope you enjoy this special excerpt from Agent Sniper: The Cold War Su...
Lincoln's choices and evolution didn't just transform the meaning of the Civil War—they transformed the Consitution itself. This is the thir...
Lincoln faced an unprecedented crisis that remains unique in American history. Were the choices he made vindicated by history? Read the comp...
The original United States Constitution was a compromise between slaveholders and non-slaveholders. It made key compromises to protect a uni...
Coming soon on the Unknown History podcast: the story of Abraham Lincoln's work reshaping the United States Constitution. Hosted on Acast. S...
After 323 days of the Berlin Blockade, a weather system nearly brought the city to its knees. However, the strength of the Germans, tenacity...
The Berlin Airlift of 1948 saved the city from starvation...but just barely. Unknown History delves into the astonishing ingenuity of Americ...
The Berlin Airlift saved the city from starvation during the Russian blockade of 1948. But supplying over two million people for over a year...
When the Soviets cut off all supply routes to western Berlin in 1948, they didn't anticipate the ingenuity and tactical planning skills of A...
The Soviets' siege of Berlin did not begin with a bang, but rather a series of smaller infractions, starting with stopping trains to check p...
Western allies in post-war Berlin had never encountered the likes of General Alexander Kotikov, a staunch communist with a velvet touch. Rea...
Winston Churchill's seminal 1946 speech in Westminster College gave not only a name to growing Soviet influence in Central and Eastern Europ...
The opening shots of an ensuing power struggle were fired in the Allied Kommandatura, the four-power body established to run Berlin convened...
When Frank Howley first arrived in Berlin in July 1945, he had no idea that the Russians had spent the last ten years training a small but d...
Within four months of arriving in Berlin, U.S. soldiers had sent home eleven million dollars from black-market trading. It was exciting, pro...
Nine weeks after the Red Army captured Berlin, American colonel Frank "Howlin' Mad" Howley and his troops stormed in to take the ruined city...
By 10:40 p.m. on Monday, April 30, 1945, the Soviet flag was flying over the Reichstag, sending a powerful message that the Soviets, and the...
An unlikely bond forged between a brash American colonel and a British brigadier played a vital role in a devious game of cat and mouse agai...
On the new season of Unknown History, Giles Milton tells the tales of post-war Europe and the brave men who kept the west from tumbling into...
While we put the finishing touches on the next season of Unknown History, here's one more special bonus episode for you from our friends at...
Unknown History's next season is still in the works, but this week, we're sharing another bonus clip. This episode is a special excerpt from...
In today's exclusive bonus episode, hear a special excerpt from the audiobook Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Blood and Trea...
How did flag burning become a protected act of free speech? Did the United States v. Nixon determine that the President can't, basically, ac...
The three branches of the U.S. federal government—executive, legislative, and judicial—keep each other in line through a system of "checks a...
How do you get involved in U.S. Democracy? Here's a crash course on next-level civic participation. Yep, we're talking about putting your mo...
Who's responsible for the Electoral College? (Hint: There's a wildly popular Broadway musical about him.) We'll dish on that and everything...
Newspapers mocked his candidacy. Opponents underestimated him. And yet, he came to occupy the Oval Office as a U.S. President. Who is he? No...
Today we have a special guest post for Unknown History listeners. David Crowther hosts the History of England podcast, where he delves into...
In the last episode from Season 3 of Unknown History, we learn how the American Troops finally won the beach from German defenders at Omaha...
Today, we hear from the other side of D-Day—the German colonel tasked with driving the Allied forces off the beaches. Could the panzer tank...
Upon landing at Sword Beach the morning of June 6, 1944, one group of eite British commandos were accompanied by a Highland bagpiper, who em...
A group of American Rangers, led by the bold James Rudder, were some of the strongest and bravest soldiers in D-Day battles. Learn how they...
Two brothers, Charles and Elliot Dalton, fought side-by-side on the morning of June 6, 1944, leading the Juno Beach landings. Hosted on Acas...
If you've seen 'Saving Private Ryan,' you know too well the images of the first flight of men invading and dying on the beach on D-Day—today...
As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, Allied forces were conducting their first wave of landings on Utah Beach—and quickly realized that a part of...
A few hours before the beach landings at Normandy, Allied troops invaded the Merville Battery—a giant gun encampment—with instructions to de...
As we lead up to the climax of D-Day, we learn about the early hours of June 6, 1944, and the soldiers who executed a mission so dangerous,...
Hours before the beach landings on D-Day, a group of men underwent a dangerous nighttime mission in France. What happened in that fateful op...
On June 5, 1944, the night of what was supposed to be D-Day, the five massive fleets heading for the French coast suddenly stopped and turne...
In part one of our exciting third-season, D-DAY, we learn about George Lane and his extraordinary undercover mission to Nazi-occupied France...
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill were two of the most famous plainsmen of the American West, and also became trusted friends. How did this friends...
Even America Frontier's first and fastest gunslinger had a softer, romantic side—on this episode, we learn about the women that captured Wil...
The story of Wild Bill Hickok, a legendary gunslinger from the American Frontier, has been largely untold in modern history. Tom Clavin tell...
In our third installment in the miniseries "The Heroes of Valley Forge," we learn about Baron von Steuben, a conman and spy for the French g...
In the second installment in our miniseries on the heroes of Valley Forge, we learn about Washington's surrogate sons and the impact they ha...
In the first episode of our miniseries on the Heroes of Valley Forge, we learn that it was during the Valley Forge encampment that Washingto...
In the final episode of our miniseries on Jack Kelly's The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Upri...
In part four of our miniseries on The Edge of Anarchy, author Jack Kelly describes the unfair conditions, significant events, and key people...
In part three of our miniseries on The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America, aut...