Hollywood Hates History, Part 1: Kingdom of Heaven
This episode is the first in a mini-series that Scott is doing with fellow history podcaster Stephen Guerra (History of the Papacy, Beyond the Big Screen) about some of the most historically inaccurat...
6 Aug 20191h 2min
Announcement: 'Hollywood Hates History' Starts Next Week
Next week an eight-part mini-series called Hollywood Hates History launches. Scott co-hosts with fellow history podcaster Steve Guerra to look at some of the most historically inaccurate movies ever m...
3 Aug 20192min
A Vote of No Confidence: How to Obliterate Your Current Government
Americans and Europeans are confused by much about each other, especially their respective governmental systems. Europeans are baffled by American elections, the powers of the president, and most of a...
1 Aug 201942min
George Washington as Man, General, Leader, and Mule Pioneer
George Washington is nearly as famous for his character as he is a general and statesman. In this episode we look at his famed attributes for leadership and doing such things as keeping together the f...
30 Jul 201950min
A Shred to End All Shreds: World War I Meets Swedish Metal
This episode of History Unplugged is unlike any we've ever done. Scott interviews Joakim Brodén, lead singer of Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton, whose new album “The Great War” is a concept record fo...
25 Jul 201924min
Has The Lost Colony of Roanoke Been Found?
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast ofNorth Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World. ...
23 Jul 201935min
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Albert Einstein’s rise to fame was not instantaneous and easy. Rather, Einstein’s celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. His grand ideas (ideas that would change physics forever) were formul...
18 Jul 201928min
The Forgotten Assassin – Sirhan Sirhan and the Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968 seemed like it should have been an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles’s famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night and sa...
16 Jul 201937min
