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Ep. 111 Adolf Hitler Part 1: How a Monster Is Made - Lessons to Learn From the Rise of Germany's Infamous Dictator
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Throughout all of history there is one name that rises above all the others possibly as the most depraved, heinous, vile human being ever to have walked the planet. Humans worldwide almost unanimously agree, some from the start but most in hindsight, that this man was pure evil. Yes, I am talking of course about the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler. BBC writes quote “Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust. But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one,” end quote. He became one. Well that begs the question, of course, how did he become one? How does a normal Austrian boy born to a family of modest means come to take over another country’s government so fully that he acquires the power to engage the entire world in a bloody war while simultaneously murdering millions of innocent men, women, and children? Oh, what, you thought Hitler was German? Turns out, there’s a lot the masses don’t know about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power. And as we well know, to forget history is to risk repeating it. Let’s fix that.
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- History.com "Adolf Hitler"
- BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster"
- Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938"
- The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days"
- The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists"
- The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler"
- History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis"
- The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?"
- Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel"
- BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933"
- Wikipedia "Hitler Family"
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Throughout all of history there is one name that rises above all the others possibly as the most depraved, heinous, vile human being ever to have walked the planet. Humans worldwide almost unanimously agree, some from the start but most in hindsight, that this man was pure evil. Yes, I am talking of course about the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler. BBC writes quote “Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust. But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one,” end quote. He became one. Well that begs the question, of course, how did he become one? How does a normal Austrian boy born to a family of modest means come to take over another country’s government so fully that he acquires the power to engage the entire world in a bloody war while simultaneously murdering millions of innocent men, women, and children? Oh, what, you thought Hitler was German? Turns out, there’s a lot the masses don’t know about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power. And as we well know, to forget history is to risk repeating it. Let’s fix that.
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- Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast)
- Buy some merch
- Buy Me a Coffee
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- National WWII Museum "How did Adolf Hitler Happen?"
- History.com "Adolf Hitler"
- BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster"
- Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938"
- The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days"
- The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists"
- The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler"
- History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis"
- The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?"
- Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel"
- BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933"
- Wikipedia "Hitler Family"
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedI'm back this week with four more shipwreck stories. We'll start with the horrific explosion of the Mississippi river steamboat, the Sultana in 1865. Next, we'll tackle the Titanic which famously sank in 1912, killing around 1,500 passengers. On to another famous ship, the Endeavor. The Endeavor was the British naval ship used by explorer Captain James Cook during his first voyage of discovery which landed him in Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti in the mid 1700s. Later the ship changed hands and was eventually used and intentionally sunk during the American Revolutionary War. Finally, I'll end with what is, quite possibly, one of the most controversial shipwrecks ever found, the San Jose. This Spanish galleon has been called the "holy grail" of shipwrecks because it was supposedly carrying treasure worth up to 17 billion dollars today when it went down in 1708. As five plus countries argue over the San Jose's treasure, the ethical question remains - what should be done with these shipwrecks? Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: American Battlefield Trust "The Sultana Disaster" Wikipedia "Sultana" New York Times "Civil War Hull Is Reported Found" Live Science "Digital "resurrection" of the Titanic sheds light on fateful night the ship tore apart" National Geographic Press Release "National Geographic reveals groundbreaking underwater scan..." The Times "At last, the Titanic wreck is left to rust in peace" Wikipedia "James Cook" Australian National Maritime Museum "Evidence Identifying Endeavor" The Guardian "Discovery provides further evidence shipwreck is Captain Cook's Endeavor, maritime scientists say" The Guardian "Worm-eaten shipwreck of Captain Cook's Endeavor under threat from more marine animals" BBC "The fierce battle over over the 'Holy Grail' of shipwrecks" Shoot me a message!…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, we'll uncover the stories of four different shipwrecks. I'll start with an ancient Roman ship found near the Greek island of Antikythera which sank around 60 to 70 BC with mind blowing treasures on board. Next, I'll talk about the sinking of King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, in 1545 and it's rediscovery twice in the 400 years since. Then we'll move on to my personal favorite, the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was intentionally run aground by the infamous pirate Blackbeard in 1718 and rediscovered in 1996. Finally, the HMS Victory which sank in the English Channel in 1744, one of the largest and most mysterious naval tragedies in British history. We'll take a closer look at the artifacts that came off of these wrecks and what they can teach us about the people once onboard. And, we'll dive into some difficult ethical questions. What is a shipwreck really? A museum? A treasure chest? A graveyard? And should that affect how we handle these discoveries? Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Scientific American "An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets" Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Antikythera Shipwreck" Royal Museums Greenwich "Mary Rose" maryrose.org "The Mary Rose in History" Museum Crush "11 Tudor Treasures Recovered from the Wreck of the Mary Rose" Queen Anne's Revenge Project "Discovery of the Shipwreck" Wikipedia "Queen Anne's Revenge" BBC "HMS Victory: The English Channel's 'Abandoned Shipwreck'" The Guardian "Wreckage of HMS Victory's Predecessor Discovered in Channel After 265 Years" Time Magazine "The HMS Victory, Famed Shipwreck, Is Found" Shoot me a message!…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week I teamed up with fellow podcaster and prolific world traveler, Gary Arndt, from the "Everything Everywhere Daily" podcast to talk about UNESCO, an organization with a mission to save natural wonders and cultural heritage sites around the world. You'll hear the story of how UNESCO got it's start, specifically the painstaking dismantling, transport, and reconstruction of one some ancient Egypt's greatest wonders, threatened by modern development, and how the world came together to save it. You'll also hear about Gary's travels, including his favorite and least favorite UNESCO sites. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Everything Everywhere "Everything You Wanted To Know About UNESCO World Heritage Sites But Never Bothered to Ask" JSTOR Daily "An Epic Face-Lift: Moving Abu Simbel Out of the Nile" UNESCO "Working Together: Abu Simbel" UNESCO Archives Film Collection: "The World Saves Abu Simbel" documentary National Geographic "Saving the Temples of Abu Simbel" Wikipedia "Abu Simbel" Shoot me a message!…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week we're talking about the Vietnam War, one of the most unpopular wars in US history. Tomorrow is Memorial Day and while I very much want to honor and remember the over 58,000 Americans who lost their lives fighting for their country in Vietnam, around one third of them drafted, that’s not exactly the focus of this episode. Instead, I want to explore a side to the war we don’t often think about. I want to explore what happens if you’re drafted, but you know you can’t do it. You can’t go fight in a war, kill people, lots of people, for a cause you don’t believe in, a war you are morally opposed to. Because for many, that was the reality. So what are you going to do? What options do you have? Join me and special guest Bruce Wasser, author of "90: A Conscientious Objector's Journey of Quiet Resistance" to uncover Bruce's experience as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Purchase Bruce's book here! Check your birthdate draft number here Watch a video of the December 1, 1969 birthdate draft lottery here Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: BBC "The Vietnam War" History.com "How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 US Presidents" Selective Service System "Vietnam Lotteries" PHData "Analyzing the 1969 Vietnam War Draft Lottery" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 113 Infant Feeding: How Breastfeeding Has Been a Challenge and a Controversy Throughout Time 48:11
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis episode is all about the history of feeding babies which has been necessary and yet surprisingly difficult since the beginning of mankind. In fact, it's so necessary that to forgo it, up until very recently, the last hundred years or so, was a death sentence for the infant. We don’t often think about feeding babies. It’s something mothers take care of behind the scenes, part of the invisible load. We certainly don’t pause to think about the history of it, the immense challenges faced throughout the ages. But we should. As necessary as infant feeding is, as necessary as it has always been, society still does not make it easy for mothers to pull off. And that should concern you, even if you aren’t a mother, even if you aren’t a baby. Because you were once, and so was I, and so was literally everyone. Let’s fix that. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: The Journal of Perinatal Education "A History of Infant Feeding" by Stevens, Patrick, and Pickler CDC "Trends in Breastfeeding Among American Mothers" US Department of Labor "FLSA Protections to Pump at Work" Mamava "The History of Breastfeeding" GinPolMed Project "A history of breastfeeding" Time Magazine "Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate" NC Health News "Distant echoes of slavery affect breastfeeding attitudes of Black women" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 112 Adolf Hitler Part 2: How a Monster Is Made - Lessons to Learn From the Rise of Germany's Infamous Dictator 35:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, we'll continue digging into the story of infamous Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, beginning where we left off last week with the Reichstag Fire, a suspicious incident that led to the destruction of democracy and withdrawal of civil liberties in Germany. As you'll see, once those civil liberties were gone, Hitler was free to do as he pleased and what "he pleased" happened to include a world war and the mass murders of millions. We'll examine how it all went down, how he was finally stopped, and assess the risk of another Hitler-like monster rising to power today. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: National WWII Museum "How did Adolf Hitler Happen?" History.com "Adolf Hitler" BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster" Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938" The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists" The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler" History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis" The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?" Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel" BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933" Wikipedia "Hitler Family" US Holocaust Memorial Museum "How and why did ordinary people across Europe contribute to the persecution of their Jewish neighbors Jewish Virtual Library "When Did the World Find Out About the Holocaust?" Smithsonian Magazine "The True Story of the Reichstag Power and the Nazi Rise to Power" US Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Reichstag Fire" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 111 Adolf Hitler Part 1: How a Monster Is Made - Lessons to Learn From the Rise of Germany's Infamous Dictator 31:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThroughout all of history there is one name that rises above all the others possibly as the most depraved, heinous, vile human being ever to have walked the planet. Humans worldwide almost unanimously agree, some from the start but most in hindsight, that this man was pure evil. Yes, I am talking of course about the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler. BBC writes quote “Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust. But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one,” end quote. He became one. Well that begs the question, of course, how did he become one? How does a normal Austrian boy born to a family of modest means come to take over another country’s government so fully that he acquires the power to engage the entire world in a bloody war while simultaneously murdering millions of innocent men, women, and children? Oh, what, you thought Hitler was German? Turns out, there’s a lot the masses don’t know about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power. And as we well know, to forget history is to risk repeating it. Let’s fix that. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: National WWII Museum "How did Adolf Hitler Happen?" History.com "Adolf Hitler" BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster" Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938" The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists" The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler" History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis" The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?" Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel" BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933" Wikipedia "Hitler Family" Shoot me a message!…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn April of 1722 Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen and his crew stumbled upon a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They sailed for the Dutch West India Company in search of Terra Australis Incognita, a hypothetical undiscovered continent that doesn’t actually exist. The land they found instead was just a 64 square mile speck some 1,200 miles from the nearest island and over 2,000 miles from the nearest continent. This island, which they spotted on Easter Sunday, was incredibly small and incredibly remote. And yet, remarkably, there seemed to be people living there. Roggeveen and his crew were confused, as were the handful of Europeans who made occasional landfall in the centuries that followed. None of them could understand the mysterious people of Easter Island. Where did they come from? How did they get there? Why did they carve massive stone heads? How did they move them? There were so many unanswered questions that have led to a complete lack of answers even today. But the real mystery is, why didn’t anyone just ask the Rapanui people themselves? Perhaps, if they had, Easter Island, Rapa Nui wouldn't be the mystery it is today. Join me this week to finally learn about Rapa Nui. We’ll examine recent DNA evidence that completely debunks past theories and we’ll finally listen to the Rapanui people whose rich oral traditions, storytelling, have survived despite it all. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: UNESCO "Rapa Nui National Park" Smithsonian Magazine "The Secrets of Easter Island" Smithsonian Magazine "Easter Island's Ancient Population Never Faced Ecological Collapse, Suggests Another Study Nature "Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas EBSCO "European Discovery of Easter Island" Wikipedia "History of Easter Island" PBS NOVA Online "Secrets of Easter Island" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 109 The Philadelphia Experiment: How Tales of an Invisible Teleporting Naval Ship Found Their Way Into History 41:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn the 1950s, a strange story emerged about a ship called the USS Eldridge docked at a naval shipyard in Philadelphia. According to a man aboard another ship docked nearby, in October of 1948 the hull of the Eldridge suddenly glowed an eery blueish green and then the entire ship disappeared, became invisible. But that's not all. After it turned invisible, it then suddenly teleported 300 miles away to another naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia and back. The crew aboard the Eldridge reportedly suffered ill effects, disorientation, burns, and some of them even had body parts fused to the hull of the ship. This witness, a man named Carl Allen or sometimes Carlos Allende, claimed that what he had seen was a top secret government experiment gone wrong, an experiment that had been covered up ever since. But what was the Philadelphia Experiment really - a government conspiracy or a hoax turned urban legend? Let's fix that. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Naval History and Heritage Command "Philadelphia Experiment" Wikipedia "Philadelphia Experiment" Military.com "This Is the Truth Behind WWII's Creepy Philadelphia Experiment" Wikipedia "Carl Meredith Allen" ussslater.org "Destroyer Escort Anecdotes" How Stuff Works "How the Philadelphia Experiment Worked" Skeptical Inquirer "Solving a UFOlogical Murder: The Case of Morris K. Jessup" Wikipedia "Morris Ketchum Jesup" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 108 April Fool's Day: How No One Even Knows What This Holiday Really Is 35:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week we're exploring what is, quite possibly, the weirdest and most mysterious of all the holidays: April Fools' Day. The real trick? No one even knows where this holiday came from or why we celebrate it. We'll dive in to some of the origin theories, from ancient Rome to medieval fables to Renaissance poetry. We'll also take a look how the holiday has evolved throughout time, including some of the greatest pranks ever pulled on April Fools' Day. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Library of Congress Blogs "April Fools: The Roots of an International Holiday" History.com "April Fools' Day" NPR "April Fools' Day might be the world's longest running joke. No one knows how it began" A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities BU Today "How a BU Prof April-Fooled the Country" Encyclopedia Britannica "Julian Calendar" History.com "9 Outrageous Pranks in History" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 107 Bloody Mary: Why England's First Queen Was Cast as an Evil Villain Instead of a Triumphant Underdog 49:09
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedI have danced around the story of Mary Tudor, oldest daughter of Henry VIII, for far too long. It's finally time to recognize Mary with her own episode, the perfect story to wrap up Women's History Month. This is a tragic story. The lot cast upon Mary was often cruel and unjust, her life marred by trauma and heartache. But it's also a story of triumph, an underdog rising up, overcoming insurmountable challenges to claim her rightful place as England's first ever queen regnant. Despite being villainized by history ever since, cast as "Bloody Mary," the stuff of childhood urban legends and sleepover games, Mary was no more evil than her father and brother who came before her or her sister, Elizabeth I, who came after her. So what happened? Why has the myth of "Bloody Mary" persisted for so long and who was Mary Tudor, Queen Mary I, really? Let's fix that. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Royal Museums Greenwich "Why is Mary I Known As 'Bloody Mary?'" History Extra "The lost heirs of Henry VIII" Smithsonian Magazine "The Myth of Bloody Mary" History.com "What Inspired Queen 'Bloody' Mary's Gruesome Nickname?" The Fitzwilliam Museum "Mary Tudor" Tudor Extra "The Illness, Death, and Burial of Mary I" Wikipedia "Mary I of England" Wikipedia " The Education of a Christian Woman" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 106 Madame Restell: The "Wickedest Woman in New York" and Why Abortion Really Became Controversial in the US 44:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmidst the chaos of 19th century New York City, one poor immigrant woman named Ann Lohman managed to climb her way out of the slums and into a brownstone mansion on 5th avenue. But her means of doing this rubbed some people the wrong way. Ann, alias Madame Restell, was a notorious abortionist operating in the city with satellite offices in Philadelphia and Boston. She built an empire selling married women birth control and performing procedures to help them end unwanted pregnancies. Soon after she began this profitable practice, there were many who hoped to take her down, put a stop to it. But not for the reasons you might expect. Not for the reasons people oppose abortion today. Turns out, abortion, though mostly unseen and unspoken of, has been mostly an accepted necessity throughout history. It wasn’t until the mid 1800s when women like Madame Restell rose up, challenging the status quo that abortion became controversial. Let’s fix that. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Smithsonian Magazine "Madame Restell: The Abortionist of 5th Avenue" Science History Institute "How Notorious Abortionist Madame Restell Built a Drug Empire" The New York Historical Society "Life Story: Ann Trow Lohman, a.k.a Madame Restell" The New York Historical Society "Urbanization" Johns Hopkins University "A Brief History of Abortion in the US" CNN "Abortion is ancient history: Long before Roe, women terminated pregnancies" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 105 Castles: Why Medieval Castles Still Stand As a Testament to Human Strength 45:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe're going medieval this week to rectify some misconceptions about castles. Despite what many believe and what's put out there in fairy tales, castles are a very specific thing built in a specific time and place for a specific purpose. We'll examine the medieval period (AKA the middle ages or the dark ages) in Europe to better understand why and how castles were built and what they were used for. We'll also unpack the story of lesser known heroine, Nicola de la Haye, who defied gender norms to defend England's Lincoln Castle against invaders on more than one occasion, successfully withstanding siege after siege. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: How Stuff Works "How Castles Work" History.com "Middle Ages" Wikipedia "Castles" Road Trips Around the World "Why Are There So Many Castles in Europe?" History in the Margins "From the Archives: a Woman's Home Is Her Castle" Catherine Hanley "Nicola de la Haye" Summoning Magna Carta "Who Was King John?" Royal UK "Royal Residences: Windsor Castle" Historic Royal Palaces "The Story of the Tower of London" Shoot me a message!…
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1 Ep. 104 Aspasia of Miletus: Why This Powerful Woman Had All the Men In Ancient Athens Talking 39:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, we're going all the way back to ancient Greece. We'll examine the story of Aspasia of Miletus, a woman who came to Athens around 450 BC and quickly became the talk of the town. Her name appears over and over again in writing from the time, Socrates wrote about her, Plato, Plutarch, Cicero the orator, Xenophon the historian, Athenaeus the writer, Aristophanes the comic playwright, Pericles the leader of the city-state of Athens. One woman’s name was on all of their minds: Aspasia of Miletus. They loved her. They hated her. They called her a great mind, a teacher, a master of rhetoric. They called a prostitute, a cheap whore, a brothel madam. They gave her credit for writing great speeches passed on to men. They gave her credit for starting great wars, the ruin of Athens. But who was Aspasia really and why was everyone talking about her? Join me to find out! Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast) Buy some merch Buy Me a Coffee Venmo @Shea-LaFountaine Sources: Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition by Madeleine M. Henry (affiliate link) National Geographic "Greek City States" Lake Forest College "Everybody’s a Little Bit Sexist: A Re-evaluation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s Philosophies on Women" by Kayla Huber Encyclopedia Britannica "Pericles: Athenian Statesman" World History Encyclopedia "Aspasia of Miletus" World History Encyclopedia "Women in Ancient Greece" PBS "Aspasia" Brooklyn Museum "Aspasia Place Setting" Wikipedia "Aspasia" History of Women Philosophers and Scientists "Aspasia of Miletus" University of Chicago "Aspasia of Miletus" Shoot me a message!…
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