Noble Blood

Author Dana Schwartz explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between. Because when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.

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The Cannibal Count of Pisa

The Cannibal Count of Pisa

CW: Cannibalism, child death Dante's Inferno presents a stark view of the ninth circle of Hell, the circle reserved for traitors, in which sinners are stuck in agony in a frozen lake. One such sinner ...

20 Elo 202437min

The Noble Revolutionary

The Noble Revolutionary

If you're familiar with the musical 'Hamilton,' yoiu probably know about "America's favorite fighting Frenchman:" the Marquis de Lafayette. A teenage nobleman enraptured by the ideals of the American ...

13 Elo 202428min

The Princess and the Commoner

The Princess and the Commoner

In 2021, Princess Mako of Japan made headlines for giving up her royal title in order to marry a commoner. On the surface, it sounds like a picture-perfect love story. But the truth of their courtship...

6 Elo 202424min

Prometheus in Paris

Prometheus in Paris

In 1777, Benjamin Franklin made his way across the Atlantic to Paris. He was the most famous American in the world, a celebrated inventor thought of as Galileo reincarnate. But Franklin would need mor...

30 Heinä 202434min

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Among the Royals (with History On Trial's Mira Hayward)

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Among the Royals (with History On Trial's Mira Hayward)

In the 1930s, America was captivated by a scandalous courtroom drama - a custody battle of little 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt (mother of Anderson Cooper). Gloria's mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, ...

23 Heinä 202428min

Empires and the Benin Bronzes

Empires and the Benin Bronzes

The Benin Bronzes are some of the most famous artifacts in the world. And the story of how they were looted from the Kingdom of Edo in the 19th century by the British is the story of colonialism, reve...

16 Heinä 202433min

The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis

The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis

The tiny island of Sark, in the English Channel, had the distinguished honor of being the last fiefdom in Europe. And in 1929, an American businessman named Robert Hathaway became its lord. He could n...

9 Heinä 202432min

Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine

Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine

On October 6, a mob from Paris descended on Versailles, demanding blood. They stormed the palace, trying to find the private chambers of Marie Antoinette. But more shocking than a mob forcing their wa...

2 Heinä 202444min

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