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Jake Barton
Did you ever fall asleep in history class? You’re not alone. History can be boring when focusing on only dates and statistics. Historium seeks to find the narrative of history in some of the most unlikely places. Seamlessly blending history and storytelling, Jake Barton draws you into historical tales you’ve probably never heard before.
A conversation with Derek Baxter, author of new book The Forgotten World War: Exploring the Secret History of the American Revolution, from Spain to India and Back Again. Our interview touches on the Revolutionary War's unsung heroes, the various factions involved, and the battlegrounds across the world which elevated the war to a truly global conflict.
Derek's latest book is OUT NOW. You can purchase The Forgotten World War: Exploring the Secret History of the American Revolution, from Spain to India and Back Again wherever books are sold!
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A crash landing of a Japanese warplane interrupts the idyllic island life of Ni’ihau, where the Hawaiians have no idea that a world war just started.
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Music:
- Mission by Naoki Sato
- Dogfight by Thomas Wander
- Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
- Hawaiian Sunset by The Polynesians
- Opening by David Wingo
- Queenie’s Suite by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- Less Likely by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Waimanalo Blues by the Mahaka Sons of Ni’ihau
- Mt Baker by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
- Aloha Oe (Instrumental) by George Kulokahai & His Island Serenaders
- Doghouse by David Wingo
- Blue Hawaii by The Polynesians
- Doghouse by David Wingo
- Organum by Max Richter
- A World Away by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Four Enclosed Walls by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- 06 Ghosts I by Nine Inch Nails
- Coconut Island by Louis Armstrong & The Polynesians
- Martha’s Dream (The Proposition) by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- Remnants by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- In the Eastern Wild by Abul Mogard & Rafael Irisarri
- The Right Things by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Hand Covers Bruise by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Ashes (Missing Film) by Radical Face
- Uther Moads by Future Waves
- #20 (Lichen) by Brenden Eder Ensemble
- Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny
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The dawn of America’s drone program in the Second World War changes the course of presidential history.
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The colonial ambitions of Scotland soon go sideways as they face the full brunt of Murphy's Law. The colonists face disease, mutiny, starvation, and shipwrecks before the backdrop of the golden age of piracy.
The colony's ultimate fate unites a kingdom.
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Music:
- Hector the Hero by Geoff Knorr
- All in Circles by Shida Shahabi
- The British Empire by Brian Tyler
- Denmark by the Portland Cello Project
- Cock o’ the North by Geoff Knorr
- Bonnie Dundee by Geoff Knorr
- Endless Falls by Loscil
- Pieces of Eight by Bear McCreary
- The Wider Sun by Jon Hopkins
- Scottish Snare by Geoff Knorr
- Baer by Hildur Gudnadottir
- A Nation of Thieves by Bear McCreary
- Shimmy by Toussaint McCall
- Murder/Mermaid/Heavy Labor by Mark Korven
- The Spanish Empire by Brian Tyler
- Funeral at Sea by Bear McCreary
- Legions (War) by Zoe Keating
- The Sacred and The Profane by Paul Leonard-Morgan
- Elevator Song by Keaton Hensen
- Parcel o’ Rogues by Alastair McDonald
- The Final Journey by Christopher Spelmen
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Two boys go missing in rural Appalachia. Search parties scour the foothills, accusations fly, and some seek supernatural help in hopes of finding the pair of lost children.
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Against all odds, Shuja rises again. A figurehead for the British East India Company, he watches as an invading army devastates his homeland—in his name. Meanwhile, Dost Mohammed’s son Akbar Khan leads a counterforce to be reckoned with. In time, he becomes a threat to his own father’s power. The British, chief among them Alexander Burnes, learn the hard way: The wicked will not go unpunished.
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Complete original score by (MST).
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Sources:
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
Afghanistan in the Age of Empires: The Great Game for South and Central Asia by Farrukh Husain
Siraj al-Tawarikh by Faiz Muhammad Kāteb and translated by Robert D. McChesney.
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The British East India Company plots an invasion of Afghanistan. A bogus casus belli and puppet king are all they need—and the rivalry between their agent, Alexander Burnes, and a Russian spy named Ivan Vitkevitch becomes a zero sum game.
This is the beginning of the Great Game, or, as the Russians knew it: The Tournament of Shadows.
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Complete original score by (MST).
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In early 19th century Afghanistan, two warring dynasties contend for the throne. While the Sadozai brothers—grandsons of the empire’s founding king—feud amongst themselves, the Barakzai clan plots its ascendance.
Shuja ul-Mulk of the Sadozais and Dost Mohammed Khan of the Barakzais grow up together in court, but as young men they become bitter enemies. Eventually, they must face each other on the battlefield.
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Complete original score by (MST).
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**"I can say more with music than I ever could with words.” -Eric Dolphy
Music:
- Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle
- Nero's Nocturne by Chilly Gonzales
- Warm Canto by Mal Waldron, Eric Dolphy, & Booker Ervin
- Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared
- The Homeless Wanderer by Emahoy Tsege Miriam Gebru
- God Bless the Child by Eric Dolphy
- Conquistadores by Chico Hamilton
- Yearnin' by Eric Dolphy
- When the Lights Are Low by John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy
- Stolen Moments by Eric Dolphy
- It Never Entered My Mind by the Miles Davis Quintet
- Max sad clarinette by Michel Portal
- Such Owls as You by Brambles
- Meditations by Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy**
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What if sound lives forever?
Music:
- Imaginary Landscape No. 4 by John Cage
- Tezeta by Mulatu Askatke
- Electronium Music Score by Raymond Scott
- Lacrymae by Melodium
- Kapsburger by Clogs
- A Lake by Emily A. Sprague
- Tiden Effert Hoffet by I.B. Sundstrom
- When the Northern Lights by Max Richter
- X-Ray by Youth Lagoon
- Legions (War) by Zoe Keating
- Disintegration Loops #3 by William Basinski
- 92982.3 by William Basinski
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**The story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports.
Music:
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma
- Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi
- Classic Battle by Sam Spence
- Denmark by Portland Cello Project
- Independant by Brocker Way
- Tilting at Windmills by Brocker Way
- Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
- Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- 2 by AAEPSO
- Climax Rag by James Scott
- Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
- En Gang Agde by 1900
- Epilogue by Brocker Way
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Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that…
When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter stick of dynamite… things quickly got out of hand.
Welcome to Disco Demolition Night.
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An episode from a show I love called The Wind.
"Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do."
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Neils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program.
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Alarm Will Sound, Marisa Anderson, Kali Malone, Zoe Keating, Julie Kent, Ben Von Wildenhaus, Brocker Way, William Basinski, Nine Inch Nails, Mulatu Astatke, Richard D. James, Jon Hopkins, and Nils Frahm. Final song by King Dude.
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The Land Of Odd: A History Podcast
Ever wish that history was taught in a way that was, we don't know, fun, engaging,...
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Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg.
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Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico.
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Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at a secret research facility in Los Alamos. Meanwhile, counterintelligence seeks to unearth a secret communist spy ring within the very heart of the nuclear weapons program. A cold war starts before a world war ends.
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Additional music by Ludovico Einauldi, Luke Howard, Alarm Will Sound, Ben Sollee, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, and Lulu Belle & Scotty.
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On the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins...
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Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioulard, Zoe Keating, Nine Inch Nails, Choral Arts Northwest, and The Louvin Brothers.
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The story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
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Music:
- Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
- Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
- Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathaniel Bartlett
- Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
- Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek
- Expectation by Matthew Robert Cooper
- Never Ever by Lord Huron
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**Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.
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Music:**
- Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
- Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
- Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Battle of the Species by Antibalas
- Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
- One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- The Ox by The Who
- Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
- Tryouts by Brocker Way
- Heartaches by Al Bowlly
- The Beast by Dick Dale
- Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
- It Was a Town by Brocker Way
- Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
- Etude by Joep Beving
- In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson
- Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
- End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
- Less Likely by Trent Reznor
- 1929 by Merle Haggard
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Tehran 1943.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet together for the first time with hopes of overcoming their ideological differences in order to win the Second World War.
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Music:
- Nightbook by Ludovico Einauldi
- Vanguard by Bear McCreary
- History is Listening by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
- Increase by David Lang
- Prelude by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
- The War Rooms by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
- Moscow, 1953 by Christopher Willis
- Welcome to the Bloody first by Wilbert Roget II
- Four Winds by Adam Hurst
- Staging a Coup by Christopher Willis
- Dungtitled (In a Major) by Stars of the Lid
- A Softer World by Luke Howard
- A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process by Stars of the Lid
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In the late 1700s, a chess-playing automaton marched across Europe, achieving checkmates against novices and masters alike–all while hiding an incredible secret…
Music:
- Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings by Siefried Behrend & DZO Chamber Orchestra
- Clockwork Toccata, Op. 68 by Fulvio Caldini & the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
- Concerto no. 5 en la mineur by Bach
- Mr. Moustafa by Alexandre Desplat
- Denmark by Gideon Fruedmann & the Portland Cello Project
- Night Train to Nebelsbad by Alexandre Desplat
- Water Music Suite by Handel & the English Concert
- Portrait Gallery by Luke Howard
- Morning Talk/Supersymmetry by Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett
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This episode was always a feel-good fan favorite, so I decided to pluck it from the archives, rewrite it, re-record it, and remix it now that I'm a better writer with better equipment. Merry Christmas!
'During the first Christmas of the First World War, troops from opposing armies defied orders and participated in a series of impromptu ceasefires in the no man’s land between the trenches.'
Music:
- Keetley by OK Ikumi
- Beyond the Milk Wood by Federico Albanese
- We Move Lightly by Dustin O’Halloran
- #20 (Lichen) by Aphex Twin
- Pauvre Simon by Sylvain Chauveau
- Silent Night by the St. John’s College Choir
- Auld Lang Syne by Dexter Britain
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In 1925, dog sled teams faced extreme subzero temperatures, whiteout conditions, and hurricane-force winds to deliver medicine to sick children in the remote mining town of Nome, Alaska. This feat of interspecies heroism would become one of the most harrowing rescue attempts in American history.
Music:
- Etude by Joep Beving
- Prelude for Piano and Malaria by Worrytrain
- Born Unto Trouble by Bill Elm & Woody Jackson
- Suicide by Marc Streitenfeld
- The Diary by Dexter Britain
- Writing the Letter by Marc Streitenfeld
- In Threes by Loscil
- Labyrinthine by Julianna Barwick
- A Softer world by Luke Howard
- The Evil The Never Arrived by Stars of the Lid
- Opening by Nathaniel Bartlett
- At the Beach by David Wingo
- Lale’s Theme by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- I Will Be Back One Day (Instrumental) by Lord Huron
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In early 1964, on the eve of The Beatles’ first international tour, Ringo Starr fell ill. To avoid cancelling the shows at the height of Beatlemania, they hired Jimmie Nicol as a temporary replacement. The stand-in drummer serves as a case study in what happens to a human psyche when propelled from relative obscurity to worldwide fame (and back again…) all in the span of a few months.
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Music:
- It Was a Town by Brocker Way
- Mr. Rogers Day by Jonathan Kirkscey
- School Day by Chuck Berry
- Rave On by Buddy Holly
- Last Days of Disco by Yo La Tengo
- Yea Yea by Vince Eager
- Twenty Flight Rock by Colin Hicks & His Cabin Boys
- Drum Diddley by The Spotnicks
- Buzz, Buzz, Buzz by Vince Eager
- Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran
- I Saw Her Standing There by The Silver Beatles
- Night Train by The Shubdubs
- Practicing by Justin Hurwitz
- Dismissed by Justin Hurwitz
- Do What You Are Doing by Dexter Britain
- I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles
- The Horse by Cliff Nobles & Co.
- A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
- Can’t Buy Me Love by The Beatles
- Love Me Do by The Beatles
- Frances & Her Friends by Francis Faye
- Long Tall Sally by The Beatles
- Humpty Dumpty by The Shubdubs
- On the Green Tape by Musette
- Last Date by The Spotnicks
- Three King Fishers by Gabor Szabo
- Getting Better by The Beatles
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After Columbus opened Pandora’s Box by crossing the Atlantic, conquistadors ventured into the New World for god, glory, and gold; rarely in that order. One of these conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro, could not ignore the rumors of an empire of golden cities in the cloud peaks of the Andes, which sent him on a collision course with Atualpa, the god emperor of the Inca Empire.
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As the final episode of this wild year called 2020, here's fifteen quick mini-stories from throughout history!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Lots of myth busting of misconceptions about indigenous people coupled with new research that shines a light of what the New World and its inhabitants were actually like.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
How do we Americans remember the deadliest night in human history? The answer is simple. We don't.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is the story of the strangest race ever run.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In 1919, rage from injustices erupted into violent race riots which spread throughout Chicago. All the while, Spanish Flu spread like wildfire in this unfortunately relevant story about the Chicago Race Riots.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is the story of the original Siamese Twins!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a rag-tag group of rock climbers in the 1970s stumble upon the score of a lifetime.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is a fun story about the Corrupted Blood plague that hit the realm of World of Warcraft and what it can teach us about epidemiology.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In the midst of the siege of Leningrad, a small enclave of Soviet scientists did what they could to protect a massive collection of seeds in order to save countless future human lives.
In Los Angeles, California, the fresh recruits, with their new crew cuts and wrinkled uniforms, would get their first taste of combat on February 24th, 1942...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Childbed fever was killing new mothers with a vengeance. In Hungary, young doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found a cure. However, there was one problem... No one believed him.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Baseball has long been dubbed America’s pastime, but would that change if players had to literally play for their lives?Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In the 1850s, a Christian cult rattles imperial China to its core...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Mummies, hieroglyphs, pyramids, vintage fashion; this episode has it all!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
History is full of moments of misfortune, irony, or just plain ol’ bad luck. This episode contains eight mini-stories about the times where things went from bad to worse.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This episode is devoted to story of 800 year old Notre Dame cathedral and it's incredibly storied past.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
The story of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has everything I'm looking for when looking for topics: A wild ride full of twists, turns, and downright unbelievable moments.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In the 1970s, a hero arose to defend the fact that pinball was a game of skill, not a game of chance.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
The ill-fated voyage encountered mutiny, torture, murder, and a mad tyrant as things went from bad to worse...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This episode is an interview with Peter Stark, author of Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is the story of Dungeons & Dragons and how an innocent tabletop RPG was caught in the crossfire of moral outrage and religious fundamentalism.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In this episode, we’ll follow the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment known as the “Harlem Hellfighters” through the horrors of trench warfare, and through their struggle for equality.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In a tale involving ancient Egyptians, grave robbers, charlatans, and European aristocracy, we'll explore burial rites, desecration, and what they reveal about relationship with how we treat our dead.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Occasionally, people will find tribes of humans that have not had contact with the modern world.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is the story of German officers committing high treason for the greater good of Germany.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
In 1975, women were still in the process of breaking out of the domestic bubble and into politics and the modern workforce. But in Iceland, one event that year changed everything…Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
The Amazon River Basin contains some of the most treacherous, uncharted land on the planet...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
This is the story of slaves who rose up in rebellion and a landmark court case challenging the thin line between slavery and freedom.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Animals play a massive, often untold, part in human history. This episode is the third and final part of a series of mini stories all about or relating to animals.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Animals play a massive, often untold, part in human history. This episode is the second part of a series of mini stories all about or relating to animals.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Animals play a massive, often untold, part in human history.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
The War of 1812 is often the forgotten war between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. But that little war, especially the final battle, has a profound effect on US history.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)
Long ago, a group of people attempted to collect and store every piece of human knowledge on the planet in a single place. In this episode, you’ll take a tour of the great Library of Alexandria, and learn how its rise and fall deeply affected both the ancient and modern world.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historium)