Gadsden Purchase 1854: Disturnell's Faulty Map and Santa Anna's Desert Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo drew the new border using a...
23 Okt 22min
League of Nations: Kant's Perpetual Peace, Jane Addams and Abyssinia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1919 Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing the League of Nations, yet the ...
23 Okt 22min
House of Hohenzollern: A Fake Ancestor, a Bought Crown and a Modern Lawsuit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Hohenzollerns first appear in the records around 1061 with Burkhard I, counts of a castle on...
23 Okt 24min
Harlem Hellfighters' Other War: Spartanburg, a French Memo and Jazz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 369th Infantry began as the 15th New York National Guard, recognized with help from Emmett J...
23 Okt 23min
Kingdom of Aksum: Adulis Trade, Granite Stelae and Ezana's Cross on Coins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The third-century prophet Mani named four great powers: Rome, Persia, China and Aksum. Rising in...
23 Okt 23min
Hittite Empire Rediscovered: Babylon Sacked, Plague Rams, Kadesh Treaty
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nineteenth-century scholars dismissed the Hittites as a minor biblical tribe. In 1834 Charles Te...
23 Okt 27min
Burke and Wills: 20 Tons of Gear, a Chinese Gong and the Dig Tree
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gold made Melbourne rich, growing it from about 29,000 people to nearly 140,000 in a decade, and...
23 Okt 27min
Sultan Sanjar: Seljuk King of Kings Routed at Qatwan, Caged by the Oghuz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ahmad Sanjar was a son of Malik Shah I, born into the Seljuk dynasty of Oghuz Turks, steppe noma...
23 Okt 21min
