Unknown History with Giles Milton
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Unknown History with Giles Milton
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.
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A Conversation On Queer History: Rasheed Newson, Jack Lowery, and Bill Goldstein on Act Up!, AIDS Activism, and 80s NYC.
Hear Rasheed Newson, Jack Lowery and Bill Goldstein discuss Rasheed's new book My Government Means to Kill Me. They discuss the inspiration for the no...
Bonus: The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
Unknown History is on hiatus between seasons, but in the meantime, we hope you enjoy this special excerpt from Agent Sniper: The Cold War Superagent a...
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln's Transformation
Lincoln's choices and evolution didn't just transform the meaning of the Civil War—they transformed the Consitution itself. This is the third and fina...
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln's Choice
Lincoln faced an unprecedented crisis that remains unique in American history. Were the choices he made vindicated by history?
Read the companio...
The Broken Constitution: The American Compromise
The original United States Constitution was a compromise between slaveholders and non-slaveholders. It made key compromises to protect a union between...
Coming Soon: The Broken Constitution
Coming soon on the Unknown History podcast: the story of Abraham Lincoln's work reshaping the United States Constitution.
The Dramatic Conclusion of the Berlin Blockade
After 323 days of the Berlin Blockade, a weather system nearly brought the city to its knees. However, the strength of the Germans, tenacity of the Am...
To Save a City
The Berlin Airlift of 1948 saved the city from starvation...but just barely. Unknown History delves into the astonishing ingenuity of American militar...
Launching the Airlift
The Berlin Airlift saved the city from starvation during the Russian blockade of 1948. But supplying over two million people for over a year via airpl...
The Siege: Could the Berlin Airlift Save Berlin?
When the Soviets cut off all supply routes to western Berlin in 1948, they didn't anticipate the ingenuity and tactical planning skills of Army Brigad...
The Strangling of Berlin
The Soviets' siege of Berlin did not begin with a bang, but rather a series of smaller infractions, starting with stopping trains to check passengers'...
A Battle of Wits in Post-War Berlin
Western allies in post-war Berlin had never encountered the likes of General Alexander Kotikov, a staunch communist with a velvet touch.
Read th...
Churchill's Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill's seminal 1946 speech in Westminster College gave not only a name to growing Soviet influence in Central and Eastern Europe, it also...
The Great Berlin Power Struggle
The opening shots of an ensuing power struggle were fired in the Allied Kommandatura, the four-power body established to run Berlin convened in July 1...
Russia's Secret Revolutionaries
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 dedicated g...
Sleeping with the Enemy
Within four months of arriving in Berlin, U.S. soldiers had sent home eleven million dollars from black-market trading. It was exciting, profitable, a...
The Americans Arrive in Berlin
Nine weeks after the Red Army captured Berlin, American colonel Frank "Howlin' Mad" Howley and his troops stormed in to take the ruined city.
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Berlin Turns Red
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 they alone, h...
The Colonel Who Went to War
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 against Joseph...
Coming Soon: Unknown History Season 4
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 chaos - b...
The True Story of A Band of Female Resistance Fighters in WWII
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 Macmillan...
The Legacy of the West Point Class of 1966
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 the audio...
Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
In today's exclusive bonus episode, hear a special excerpt from the audiobook Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Blood and Treasure tells...
91- A User's Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Cases that Shaped History
How did flag burning become a protected act of free speech? Did the United States v. Nixon determine that the President can't, basically, act like a k...
90 - A User's Guide to the Branches of U.S. Government
The three branches of the U.S. federal government—executive, legislative, and judicial—keep each other in line through a system of "checks and balance...
89 - A User's Guide to Getting Involved in Democracy—Petitions and Protest
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 money or you...
88 - A User's Guide to U.S. Elections
Who's responsible for the Electoral College? (Hint: There's a wildly popular Broadway musical about him.) We'll dish on that and everything you need t...
23 S2 - How an Outsider Became President of the United States
Newspapers mocked his candidacy. Opponents underestimated him. And yet, he came to occupy the Oval Office as a U.S. President. Who is he? Not who you...
BONUS: Introducing The History of England
Today we have a special guest post for Unknown History listeners. David Crowther hosts the History of England podcast, where he delves into England's...
87 S3 - D-DAY: When the Tides Turned on Omaha Beach
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 Beach. Thi...
86 S3 - D-DAY: The German Opposition
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 division a...
85 S3 - D-DAY: Bagpipes and Snipers
Upon landing at Sword Beach the morning of June 6, 1944, one group of eite British commandos were accompanied by a Highland bagpiper, who emphasized t...
84 S3 - D-DAY: American Rangers Who Terrified the Germans
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 sabotaged...
83 S3 - D-Day: The Tale of Two Brothers
Two brothers, Charles and Elliot Dalton, fought side-by-side on the morning of June 6, 1944, leading the Juno Beach landings.
82 S3 - D-DAY: D-Day: The Men in the 'Suicide Wave'
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, we learn...
81 S3 - D-DAY: The Utah Beach Landings
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 their plan...
80 S3 - D-DAY: The Battle for Merville
A few hours before the beach landings at Normandy, Allied troops invaded the Merville Battery—a giant gun encampment—with instructions to destroy it....
79 S3 - D-DAY: One of the Most Dangerous Missions of D-Day
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, they expec...
78 S3 - D-DAY: The Mission You've Never Heard Of
Hours before the beach landings on D-Day, a group of men underwent a dangerous nighttime mission in France. What happened in that fateful operation?
77 S3 - D-DAY: What Happened on the Eve of D-Day?
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 turned around—b...