Lost Civilizations, Part 3: European Visitors to the New World Before Columbus
Learn about cultures that came to America long before Columbus, suggesting that trans-oceanic voyages could be accomplished well back into the Bronze Age.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
6 Sep 20181h 5min
Lost Civilizations, Part 2: The Egyptian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites.
Welcome to part two on our series on the greatest lost civilizations in history. Today we are looking at three groups: The Egytian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites. These three group...
4 Sep 201859min
Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1
A stock trope of literature is the king who believes that his kingdom will last forever, only to see it collapse under his own hubris (Exhibit A is Percy Bysshe Shelly's Ozymandias). But the trope is ...
30 Aug 20181h 8min
The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 3: Elizabeth of Tudor and Ottoman Queen Mother Kösem Sultan
This is the third in our three-part series on the most powerful women in the Middle Ages. To wrap things up we will explore the lives of two female rulers — one very famous, the other almost unknown. ...
28 Aug 201858min
Teaser: Intro to Audie Murphy Series
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25 Aug 20186min
The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 2: Catherine of Sienna and Isabella of Castile
Female rulers dominated the Middle Ages. But it wasn't just the queens or empresses who wielded enormous power. This episode is the second of a three-part series at the lives of the most powerful wome...
23 Aug 201844min
The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Queens, Empresses, and Viking Slayers
The idea of a powerful woman in the Middle Ages seems like an oxymoron. Females in this time are imagined to be damsels in distress, trapped in a high tower, and waiting for knights to rescue them, al...
21 Aug 20181h 7min
How the Vicksburg Siege May Have Turned the Tide of the Civil War—Samuel Mitcham
“Traitor!” “Failure!” “Bungling fool!”Southern newspapers hurled these sentiments at Confederate General John C. Pemberton after he surrendered the fortress of Vicksburg—the key to controlling the Mis...
16 Aug 201855min
