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History Podcasts
Did you spend most of your time napping when you took history class in high school? Were you mostly hungover when you made it to that 8am required history class you had to take in college, when you made it at all? Or maybe you just had the kind of history professor that made "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" sound charismatic. Here's your chance to relearn everything you forgot from History 101, without paying $300 a credit hour.
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Did you spend most of your time napping when you took history class in high school? Were you mostly hungover when you made it to that 8am required history class you had to take in college, when you made it at all? Or maybe you just had the kind of history professor that made "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" sound charismatic. Here's your chance to relearn everything you forgot from History 101, without paying $300 a credit hour.
Twitter:
@history_wtf
Language:
English
Contact:
6232613897
Website:
http://twitter.com/history_wtf
Email:
MeredithAncret@gmail.com
Episodes
Women's History Month: Three Historical Women Reduced to Tits by Popular Culture - Godiva, Phryne, Agnes Sorel
3/1/2020
Resources:
https://www.history.com/news/who-was-lady-godiva
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/11/09/the-ancient-greek-model-who-disrobed-for-her-freedom/
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171108-the-it-girl-of-ancient-greece
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phryne
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5xaw/agnes-sorel-topless-mistress-france-history-france
https://rachelemoss.com/2018/05/11/unsexy-history-writing-with-respect/
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/a...
Duration:00:08:10
Chocolate Hearts, Goat Sacrifices, and 14th Century Papist Drama: Shakespeare and Valentine's Day
2/9/2020
Sources:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lupercalia.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valentines-Day
https://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibelline
https://scripta.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/scripta/article/viewFile/39826/36049
http://theologyofromeoandjuliet.blogspot.com/2012/05/13th-century-verona.html
Shadowplay by Clare Asquith
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483161
Recommended reading:
Shadowplay by Clare...
Duration:00:08:19
There Is No Christmas, Only Yule: How Christianity Hijacked Paganism
12/22/2019
Twitter:
@History_wtf
@MeredithAncret
Additional Reading:
Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide
https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christmas-Spirits-Rituals-Yuletide-ebook/dp/B005VRKQE2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Resources:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturessacredjourney/2016/03/a-brief-history-of-ostara/2/
https://www.newsweek.com/christmas-dead-christians-should-not-celebrate-jesus-birthday-catholic-priest-715953
Shelley, Bruce...
Duration:00:09:36
We Discovered That When?
12/15/2019
Transcript:
Additional Reading: For those of you that giggled at my Monty Python joke, someone actually calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. I have no idea how this could benefit anyone ever, but there you go. The link is available in the...
Duration:00:11:39
Inbreeding: Or - Why your family reunion is not the place to score a date
12/1/2019
Resources:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/inbreeding-was-common-among-early-humans-skeletal-deformities-suggest
https://www.ancient.eu/Ptolemaic_Dynasty/
https://www.thoughtco.com/queen-cleopatras-family-tree-4083409
http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/25/14742/
https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-dangers-of-royal-inbreeding/
https://www.history.com/news/letters-may-prove-george-iii-was-mad\
https://www.medicalbag.com/home/features/grey-matter/impact-of-e...
Duration:00:09:38
The True Story of Thanksgiving, Or How the Pilgrims’ Did Brexit First
11/24/2019
Resources:
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-first-president/thanksgiving/
https://www.businessinsider.com/thanksgiving-took-the-place-of-evacuation-day-2014-11
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-establishes-modern-thanksgiving-holiday
https://www.visitleiden.nl/en/discover-leiden/specials/pilgrim
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-pilgrims/2013/11/22/9f93e822-52c1-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com...
Duration:00:09:17
The Dutch East India Company – The Forgotten Trading Empire
11/10/2019
Transcript:
https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/the-dutch-east-india-company-the-forgotten-trading-empire-b661466baa13
Resources:
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Dutch_East_India_Company
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-todays-tech-giants-compare-to-massive-companies-of-empires-past-2017-12
https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-united-east-india-2013-11
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/first-company-issue-stock-dutch-east-india.asp
http://www.thebubbl...
Duration:00:09:32
Witches and Nazis and Disembodied Penises, Oh My!
10/31/2019
Happy Halloween! Here's a special spooky episode on a brief cross section of the history of witchcraft.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)
Duration:00:10:06
Christopher Columbus, Genocidal, Glory Hogging Asshole
10/18/2019
Christopher Columbus is the worst, alright? And not just because of the genocide and the slavery, thought mostly because of that. Columbus Day is just celebrating a glory hog that showed up late to the party and took all the credit for setting it up, i.e. he didn't discover America at all, let alone first.
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Duration:00:08:14
Cobras, Rats, Locusts, and Unintended Consequences
10/11/2019
In this week's episode we’ll be looking at several times in history where both elected governments and dictators put policies into action that had some absolutely fucking wild unintended consequences, including outbreaks of bubonic plague, feral hogs taking over the United States, and the death of 30 million people.
Medium
Twitter
Resources:
The panda video:...
Duration:00:09:00
Jorgen Jorgenson, The Most Interesting Danish Man in the World
10/4/2019
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Iceland/Iceland-under-foreign-rule
https://www.iheartreykjavik.net/2014/05/jorgen-jorgensen-icelands-favorite-rascal/
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jorgenson-jorgen-2282
http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/hogconv
Further reading:
The Convict King, written by Jorgen Jorgenson, edited by James Francis Hogan. Available free, in its entirety, from The University of Sydney in PDF....
Duration:00:09:45
Fighting Nazis With Meth
5/21/2019
Both the Axis and the Allies kept their soldiers going through the liberal application of meth and other assorted stimulants...which begs the question as to why my meth head cousin is such a shiftless...
Duration:00:07:33
The Lost State of Franklin
5/19/2019
In 1784 a small corner of the Carolinas tried to become their own state and/or country...it went about as well as you'd expect.
Sources: https://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1914_historyofwestern_northcarolina.htm https://www.history.com/news/5-would-be-u-s-states https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-franklin-declares-independence http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp http://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Proprietors/sirrobertheath.html...
Duration:00:07:42
WTF History Introductory Episode
5/19/2019
Who am I? What is this show about? Who are you? Well...this podcast answers two of those questions. For the 3rd, I suggest some meditation or maybe a summer of backpacking through Europe.
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Duration:00:03:21