Category Archives: Podcasts

Podcast: The Bloody Partition of India and Pakistan

After 200 years of British imperial rule, India had finally achieved its independence in 1947.  What should have been a moment of joyful triumph turned into a year of unthinkable bloodshed.  The independence and partition of India created three separate, independent states: a Hindu India and Muslim West and East Pakistan. It was the final solution of the British Empire. FewContinue reading “Podcast: The Bloody Partition of India and Pakistan”

Podcast: Jamaica’s Port Royal Sank into the Sea

Jamaica’s Port Royal was the richest, busiest, and most nefarious port in the Caribbean Sea, frequented by smugglers, pirates, and prostitutes. All that changed on June 7, 1692 when Port Royal was hit by a massive earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and literally sank into the sea like the legendary Atlantis. Click BOOKS for more by historicalContinue reading “Podcast: Jamaica’s Port Royal Sank into the Sea”

Podcast: Marguerite Alibert – from Prostitute to Princess

Marguerite Alibert lived many different lives.  She had gone from poverty to prostitution to princes – not just one, but two. She was a beautiful yet hard woman who survived the gritty world of Paris poverty, only to mingle among France’s elite. Marguerite viewed sex and love not from a romantic perspective, but as a means toContinue reading “Podcast: Marguerite Alibert – from Prostitute to Princess”

Podcast: The Tragic Story of the Radium Girls

Radium clocks and watches were all the rave during the Roaring Twenties. The watch faces glowed all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight, like florescent paint. Everyone who was anyone had to have one. The Radium Girls were not rich debutants who flashed their wristwatches, but rather the simple factory women who handContinue reading “Podcast: The Tragic Story of the Radium Girls”

Podcast: How a Teenage Boy Started World War I

On 28 June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie were visiting the picturesque city of Sarajevo in the Balkans. Franz Ferdinand was also the nephew of the Emperor, and heir to the throne as well!  The Austro-Hungarian Empire had recently annexed the Balkan provinces, infuriating Serbia. Tensions were high and the fuseContinue reading “Podcast: How a Teenage Boy Started World War I”

Podcast: Lepa Radic, Teenage Partisan Executed by the Nazis

Lepa Radić was just a 17-year-old Yugoslavian girl when she was hanged by the Nazis for being a Partisan in 1943.  This extraordinarily brave girl had joined the Yugoslav Partisans in the fight against their Nazi oppressors in World War II, and taken on the most dangerous assignments.  What turn of events lead to her transformation, capture and ultimate execution?

Podcast: 10 Forgotten Facts about the Women’s Suffrage Movement

August 2020 marked 100 years since women in the U.S. were finally given the right to vote.  Though the Declaration of Independence in 1776 declared that all ‘men’ are created equal, the U.S. Constitution did not grant such equality to women.

Podcast: 6 Theories on the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe was the Stephen King of his day.  A master poet and author of mystery and the macabre. To this day, his name alone evokes a chill down ones spine. Amongst his most popular works were Murders in the Rue Morgue and Masque of the Red Death. His life may have been cut short,Continue reading “Podcast: 6 Theories on the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe”

Podcast: The Final Deadly Days of the Knights Templar

For almost 200 years, the famous Knights Templar had considerable power, wealth, and influence across Europe and the Mediterranean.  But it all came to an abrupt and bloody end in 1314. The Knights were originally founded as a Christian, monastic-military order, devoted to protecting pilgrims traveling to and from the Holy Land following the FirstContinue reading “Podcast: The Final Deadly Days of the Knights Templar”