Episode – 0648 : The Hanseatic League Podcast Transcript One of the most successful enterprises of the Middle Ages was a collection of free cities located in Northern Germany and […]
Episode – 0646 : The Election of 1864
Episode – 0646 : The Election of 1864 Podcast Transcript The election of 1860 was unquestionably the most important election in American history. The presidential election after that was still […]
Episode – 0645 : Han van Meegeren: Forgery As an Art Form
Episode – 0645 : Han van Meegeren: Forgery As an Art Form Podcast Transcript In 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War, a Dutch man was accused of […]
Episode – 0644 : Buffalo Soldiers
Episode – 0644 : Buffalo Soldiers Podcast Transcript During the US Civil War, over a quarter million African-Americans served and fought on the Union side with distinction. After the Civil […]
Episode – 0642 : The Republic of Letters
Episode – 0642 : The Republic of Letters Podcast Transcript Starting in the early Renisanase and going through to the early 19th century an intellectual community developed in Europe and […]
Episode – 0640 : The Catiline Conspiracy
Episode – 0640 : The Catiline Conspiracy Podcast Transcript We like to think of terrorist plots as being a condition of the modern world. However, there were such plots were […]
Episode – 0639 : The Battle of Yarmouk
Episode – 0639 : The Battle of Yarmouk Podcast Transcript From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place. […]
Episode – 0638 : Philippe Petit and the World’s Greatest Tightrope Walk
Episode – 0638 : Philippe Petit and the World’s Greatest Tightrope Walk Podcast Transcript On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to […]
Episode – 0637 : Pedestrianism
Episode – 0637 : Pedestrianism Podcast Transcript In the United States and Britain in the 19th century, there was a competitive activity that at one time might have been the […]
Episode – 0635 : White Elephants
Episode – 0635 : White Elephants Podcast Transcript If you’ve been around long enough, you might have heard something being described as a white elephant. A white elephant is something […]
Episode – 0633 : The History of Gunpowder
Episode – 0633 : The History of Gunpowder Podcast Transcript Sometime almost 2000 years ago, a Chinese alchemist experimenting with three different ingredients discovered something astonishing.When the ingredients were subjected […]
Episode – 0629 : The Roman Pomerium
Episode – 0629 : The Roman Pomerium Podcast Transcript Ancient Rome had an enormous number of customs and traditions. Some of them have been passed down to us in the […]
Episode – 0628 : Stephanie St. Clair
Episode – 0628 : Stephanie St. Clair Podcast Transcript The 1920s and 1930s were the heydays of organized crime in New York City. There were several mobsters from that period […]
Episode – 0627 : The History of the Tank
Episode – 0627 : The History of the Tank Podcast Transcript On November 20, 1917, German soldiers on the Western Front saw something that had never been seen in the […]
Episode – 0625 : Ernest Shackleton and the Rescue of the Endurance
Episode – 0625 : Ernest Shackleton and the Rescue of the Endurance Podcast Transcript In 1914, the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out to become the first to cross the […]
Episode – 0621 : The Mother of All Demos
Episode – 0621 : The Mother of All Demos Podcast Transcript Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing […]
Episode – 0619 : Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave
Episode – 0619 : Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave Podcast Transcript In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa […]
Episode – 0617 : The Ides of March
Episode – 0617 : The Ides of March Podcast Transcript 2,046 years ago one of the most notorious political assassinations in world history took place. Julius Caesar, the dictator for […]
Episode – 0615 : The Three Age System: Stone, Bronze, and Iron
Episode – 0615 : The Three Age System: Stone, Bronze, and Iron Podcast Transcript Scientists love to classify things. Archeologists are no exception. One of the very first classifications systems […]
Episode – 0614 : Otto Rahn: The Real Life Indiana Jones Villain
Episode – 0614 : Otto Rahn: The Real Life Indiana Jones Villain Podcast Transcript In the Indiana Jones movies, Indiana is usually searching for a rare artifact with mystical powers […]