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- expert interviews on history
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- active for 8 years
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The Black Death’s Global Ripple Effects, and How They Were Felt Outside Europe
Jun 23, 2026
52m 49s
The Part of the Declaration of Independence Nobody Reads (Grievances Against King George) Is the Part That Actually Mattered
Jun 18, 2026
48m 38s
Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations
Jun 16, 2026
56m 52s
How 10 Whalers Survived Three Years Shipwrecked in the South Pacific
Jun 11, 2026
54m 19s
The Nobels Built Russia’s Oil Industry, Invented Dynamite and the Oil Tanker, But Were Still Crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution
Jun 9, 2026
44m 38s
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() The Black Death’s Global Ripple Effects, and How They Were Felt Outside Europe | Of the millions of victims of the Black Death, one was a teenager named Joseph ben Meir Abulafia, who died of the plague in Toledo in 1349 alongside his new wife. His tombstone was inscribed as a conversation with the dead: "I am the man who has seen desolation and destruction, blood and pestilence. The days of my youth were cut short suddenly, in the prime of my life." His unnamed mother survived, left alone and childless, her days filled with "bitter weeping." That inscription is one of seventy-six medieval tombstones from Toledo's Jewish cemetery that preserve the most personal voices of history's deadliest pandemic, a catastrophe that killed an estimated 100 million people in six years and whose aftershocks lasted for centuries. Today's guest is Thomas Asbridge, author of The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic. We discuss how a minor Venetian merchant's business papers, preserved by his widow in a convent, reveal that the medieval trade networks which kept cities fed were also purpose-built to spread epidemic disease across thousands of miles. We look at why the Byzantine emperor wrote about his fourteen-year-old son's death with clinical detachment, how a Franciscan intellectual who had questioned whether other worlds existed died carrying holy water through plague-ravaged Messina, and why the only European king killed by the Black Death was besieging Gibraltar with dreams of marching to Jerusalem when the plague found his camp. The pandemic's most devastating long-term consequences were felt not in Europe but in the Muslim world, where the once-invincible Mamluk Empire was broken by recurrent outbreaks and eventually conquered by the Ottomans, and that this forgotten collapse may have been the true hinge point that set the West on its path to global dominance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 52m 49s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() The Part of the Declaration of Independence Nobody Reads (Grievances Against King George) Is the Part That Actually Mattered | On July 9, 1776, a group of American soldiers listened to the Declaration of Independence read aloud in New York City, then rushed down Broadway and spent several minutes prying a two-ton golden equestrian statue of King George III off its pedestal on Bowling Green. They hacked off the head, sent the body to a Connecticut foundry, and melted it into exactly 42,088 bullets, a number chosen deliberately to evoke the British revolutions of 1642 and 1688. On the road to the foundry, loyalist neighbors in Wilton crept out at night and stole pieces of the statue, burying them in their yards as a quiet counter-protest. Those fragments stayed hidden for centuries until treasure hunters with metal detectors dug them up. Today's guest is Robert G. Parkinson, author of Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence. We look at the 27 grievances that make up the body of the Declaration, the section that Jefferson, Congress, and the British government all considered the essential part of the document but that modern Americans almost never read. We discuss how the very first grievance is secretly about the king vetoing Virginia's attempt to curtail the slave trade, and that the patriots saw themselves not as radical innovators but as the heirs of 1688, conducting the third British revolution in 135 years, and that the Declaration was written not in a moment of triumph but during nine weeks of almost unbelievable catastrophe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 48m 38s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations | For more than 1400 years, the history of Jewish and Muslim engagement has been a complex story of cooperation and conflict. The best known events are hostile encounters (like the 1066 Granada massacre or modern Arab-Israeli wars), they’ve had a multifaceted relationship, from Muhammad’s dealings with Jewish tribes in Arabia in the 600s, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II sending his navy to rescue Jews from the 1492 expulsion from Spain, to the contemporary tensions currently unfolding in the Middle East. Today’s guest is Marc David Baer: Author of “Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations.” We discuss how Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East and Europe, more often in cooperation than in conflict, for more than a millennium. When Islam emerged in the seventh century, Muslims and Jews were bound by shared religious tenets and common cultural practices, and for centuries afterward, they were often allies. We also discuss Muslim warriors fighting for a medieval Turkish Jewish kingdom on the Caspian Sea, Jewish viziers leading the Muslim sultan’s troops in Spain, and Jewish literary lights and political party leaders in modern Egypt and Iraq. At the same time, religious tolerance did not mean a lack of hierarchy and discrimination. For most of history, Muslims held power over Jews and Islam was promoted as the superior religion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 56m 52s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() How 10 Whalers Survived Three Years Shipwrecked in the South Pacific✨ | maritime historysurvival stories+3 | Eric Jay Dolin | History UnpluggedThe Wreck of the Mentor | New BedfordPalau | whalersshipwreck+3 | — | 54m 19s | |
| 6/9/26 | ![]() The Nobels Built Russia’s Oil Industry, Invented Dynamite and the Oil Tanker, But Were Still Crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution✨ | Nobel family historyRussian oil industry+4 | Douglas Brunt | Nobel PrizeRoyal Navy+3 | — | Nobel familyoil empire+5 | — | 44m 38s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() The American Revolution Went Way Outside of America, Pulling in Caribbean Colonies, African Forts, and Chinese Trading Houses✨ | American Revolutionglobal history+5 | Sarah Pearsall | British Parliament | St. KittsNevis+11 | American RevolutionCaribbean colonies+8 | — | 52m 33s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Ford’s Auto Domination Came From a 1909 Race Across America Through Mud-Choked Roads✨ | automobile historyFord Model T+3 | Eric Moskowitz | Shawmut Motor CompanyAutomobile Club of America+2 | New YorkSeattle | FordModel T+7 | — | 53m 19s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Al Capone’s Missing $100 Million, and the TV Journalist Who Embarrassed Himself to Find It✨ | Al Caponetelevision history+4 | William Hazelgrove | Tribune BroadcastingABC News+1 | Chicago | Al CaponeGeraldo Rivera+4 | — | 52m 50s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() How the Dollar Created America (Part 2)✨ | U.S. dollareconomic history+3 | Brendan Greeley | Federal ReserveThe Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money | United States | U.S. dollarBrendan Greeley+3 | — | 51m 42s | |
| 5/21/26 | ![]() How the Dollar Created America (Part 1)✨ | history of currencyU.S. dollar+4 | Brendan Greeley | The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money | BohemiaToledo+2 | U.S. dollarcurrency history+6 | — | 51m 18s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() From Patriot to Pirate: How Revolutionary War Hero Sam Mason Became a River Outlaw✨ | piracyRevolutionary War+4 | Carter Smith | History Unplugged | Ohio RiverMississippi River+2 | Samuel Masonpiracy+6 | — | 48m 58s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs✨ | RasputinRomanovs+4 | Antony Beevor | BolsheviksRasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs | — | RasputinRomanovs+8 | — | 46m 16s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win✨ | American RevolutionSpanish contribution+4 | James Giesler | Spanish CrownCouncil of the Indies+2 | — | Francisco de SaavedraSiege of Yorktown+7 | — | 59m 09s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() Europe Dominated Because It Never Stopped Fighting Itself✨ | European historyScientific Revolution+5 | Roderick Beaton | Europe: A New History | PersiaEurope+4 | Europedomination+6 | — | 54m 37s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() A Land Flowing with Pork and Beef: Colonial America’s Rise to the World’s Meat Consumption Capital✨ | meat consumptioncolonial America+4 | Maureen Ogle | History UnpluggedThe Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America | North AmericaMassachusetts Bay Colony+1 | meat consumptioncolonial America+6 | — | 50m 55s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years.✨ | passenger pigeonsextinction+3 | James H. McCommons | Cincinnati ZooMigratory Bird Treaty Act | Pelican IslandAmerica | passenger pigeonsextinction+3 | — | 43m 56s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Tooth Enamel Tells All: Genetic Testing and Why It’s Rewriting Our Understanding of Early Medieval Migration✨ | medieval historygenetic testing+4 | John Haywood | History UnpluggedThe Making of the Middle Ages: An Atlas of Europe | EuropeBritain+3 | tooth enamelgenetic analysis+7 | — | 53m 15s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() 95% of Ancient Greek Theater Is Gone. Here's How One Classicist Resurrected 500 Lost Playwrights✨ | ancient Greek theaterlost playwrights+4 | James Romm | Since You're Mortal: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek PlaysAnthologion+2 | Greece | ancient Greecelost plays+5 | — | 37m 52s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() How Medieval Monks Used the 7 Deadly Sins to Map Human Behavior…and LinkedIn Weaponized them Against Us✨ | medieval historypsychology+4 | Peter Jones | LinkedInSelf-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living | — | medieval monksSeven Deadly Sins+5 | — | 53m 42s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() 1,000% Profit Per Voyage: The Economics of Civil War Smuggling and Blockade Running✨ | Civil War economicsblockade running+4 | Bill C. Wilson | UnionConfederacy+1 | Mobile, AlabamaNassau+1 | Civil Warblockade running+6 | — | 39m 06s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Lives Cut Short When Vesuvius Erupted, Including a Fish Sauce Tycoon and an Isis Priest✨ | PompeiiVesuvius eruption+4 | Jess Venner | The Lost Voices of Pompeii: A Gripping History of Seven Lives on the Last Day in Pompeii | Pompeii | PompeiiVesuvius+7 | — | 50m 00s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() The Body Worth Stealing: Why Medieval Cities Fought Over Francis of Assisi’s Corpse✨ | medieval historyrelics+4 | Kathleen Brady | History UnpluggedFrancis and Clare: The Struggles of the Saints of Assisi | AssisiPerugia | St. Francis of Assisirelics+6 | — | 38m 10s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() The Alphabet as Artifact: How Egyptian Pictograms Became Your ABCs✨ | alphabetEgyptian pictograms+4 | Danny Bate | Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them | — | alphabetEgyptian hieroglyphs+5 | — | 57m 04s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Greenland is Nothing: American Nearly Acquired El Salvador, Canada, and the Kamchatka Peninsula✨ | American expansionismhistorical acquisitions+4 | Mark Kawar | History UnpluggedU.S. Virgin Islands+2 | GreenlandEl Salvador+3 | American expansionterritorial acquisitions+7 | — | 43m 11s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital✨ | history of MoscowRussian autocracy+4 | Simon Morrison | Golden HordeA Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand Year History of Moscow | MoscowRussia+1 | MoscowRussian history+7 | — | 56m 13s | |
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