Cesar Chavez: Farm Worker Organizer, Boycotts, and a Legacy Reexamined
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cesar Chavez left school after eighth grade and went on to build one of the most powerful labor ...
2 Okt 22min
Giuseppe Garibaldi: Red Shirts, the Expedition of the Thousand, and Italy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Giuseppe Garibaldi turned down a Union command from Abraham Lincoln because the war was not yet ...
2 Okt 23min
Georges Danton: The Thunderer Who Built the Terror and Died by It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1793 Georges Danton had his late wife exhumed at night so a sculptor could make a cast of her...
2 Okt 24min
Mehmed the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople and an Ottoman Paradox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mehmed II battered down walls that had stood for a thousand years, yet he also collected Christi...
2 Okt 22min
Saladin: The Scholar Sultan Who Retook Jerusalem and Won Over His Enemies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Saladin died in Damascus, his treasury held a single piece of gold and 40 pieces of silver....
2 Okt 23min
Sir Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, New Elements, and the Miners' Safety Lamp
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sir Humphry Davy was a poet-chemist who breathed untested gases, threw laughing gas parties with...
2 Okt 24min
Saigo Takamori: The Last Samurai Who Built and Then Fought Modern Japan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Saigo Takamori helped bring down the Tokugawa shogunate and build Japan's new national army, and...
2 Okt 26min
The Real Marco Polo: Silk Road Survival, Kublai Khan, and His Famous Book
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Forget the swimming pool game and the myth about pasta. This episode pieces together the true st...
2 Okt 23min
