Hank Williams: The Short, Tragic Life of Country Music's Pioneer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On New Year's Day 1953, a college student driving Hank Williams to a show discovered the 29-year...
2 Okt 19min
Louis XVI: The Introverted King Who Lost France and His Head
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Moments before his execution in 1793, Louis XVI asked whether there was any news of the explorer...
2 Okt 21min
Antoine Lavoisier: The Father of Modern Chemistry and the Guillotine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Antoine Lavoisier, the 18th century French nobleman, dragged chemistry out of alchemy and into r...
2 Okt 21min
Louis XIV: How the Sun King Built Absolute Power at Versailles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Louis XIV took the throne at four and ruled France for over 72 years, but his reign was shaped b...
2 Okt 18min
Sitting Bull: Lakota Leader, Visionary, and Unbroken Resister
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Weeks before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull performed...
2 Okt 22min
Martin Luther King Jr.: The Strategist Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King, renamed after his father returned from a 1934 Bapt...
2 Okt 20min
Muhammad Ali: From a Stolen Bicycle to a Global Icon of Defiance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A stolen red Schwinn in segregated Louisville sent 12-year-old Cassius Clay into a boxing gym an...
2 Okt 22min
Johnny Cash: The Contradictions Behind the Man in Black
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Johnny Cash was the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin's death, translating Soviet Morse c...
2 Okt 23min
