Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.
http://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 1 hour 3 minutes
[RERUN] EPISODE 54 Sitting Bull (Part 1)
“Sitting Bull, leader of the largest Indian nation on the continent, the strongest, boldest, most stubborn opponent of European...
EPISODE 97: The Psychology of Power in History: A Conversation with Aziz Al-Doory
“…we venerate the crooks, rapists, and pillagers credulous historians have repackaged as ‘founders,’ ‘conquerors,’ and ‘civilize...
[RERUN] EPISODE 51 A Life for a Whistle: Emmett Till and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
“Until the philosophy
Which hold one race superior and another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war” — Bob Marley, War, inspired by a speech by Haile Selassie
“Emmett Till is dead and gone… Why can’t people leave the dead alone and quit trying to stir things up?” — Roy Bryant
“I think black peoples' reaction was so visceral...
EPISODE 96: The Wildest Man You Have Never Heard Of: Thomas Morton
“The Puritans feared that which was undomesticated...
[RERUN] EPISODE 50 Philosophers and Thugs: Jigoro Kano (Part 2)
“I teach Kodokan judo as a way of life...
Feed Drop For ‘This Job Is History’
Where the oddest jobs from the past meet a comedian from the present… and it’s awkward! On this weekly show, Chris Parnell (SNL, Rick and Morty) welcomes guests who have held some of human history’s most unexpected and downright bizarre jobs: funeral clowns, garden hermits, VHS clerks, and everything in between. With the help of his tireless producer, Chris hears from the essential workers from decades and centuries past...
EPISODE 49 The Father of Martial Arts: Jigoro Kano (Part 1)
“It was a period of stupendous change and immense challenge; the entire social, political, and economic landscape of Japan would be...
EPISODE 95: Tom Le Forge: The Real Dances with Wolves
“The adopted father gave away many presents to the people, and these in turn gave presents to me...
[RERUN] EPISODE 48: Give Me Back My Legions! (Part 2)
“In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes” — Victor...
episode 94: EPISODE 94: The Last War Chief
“Reflecting upon the chiefs I had known, I realized that here had never been one who was very well off...