History on Fire

History on Fire

Author: Daniele Bolelli Language: English Episodes: 100
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Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.
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[RERUN] EPISODE 86: The French Wars of Religion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:21
“Nation… a term inherently so vague and so contradictory that it must always be taken in a mystic sense, as meaning whatever the ruling classes hold it convenient to mean at the moment.” Lewis Mumford This is a story abo…
EPISODE 118: Woe to the Vanquished [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:15
“Everything resounded with the confused noise of terrifying threats and shrieks of despairing anguish blended with the wailing of women and children.” - Livy Later this year, I will launch a podcast that will run separat…
EPISODE 117: The Amistad Rebellion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:52
This story has everything. Raids to enslave people. A bloody rebellion at sea. Piracy. A diplomatic crisis pitting Spain, the United States and England at odds with each other. High stakes courtroom drama which sparked i…
[RERUN] EPISODE 84: History and Video Games [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:18:28
“We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do; not Savonarola, not the Medici. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our abili…
EPISODE 116: The Daring Ones - The Arditi in WWI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:01:42
“Se non ci conoscete, guardateci i coglioni, siamo gli Arditi del Capitan Mattioni.” Arditi song The Italian Army during WWI was not exactly a well-oiled military machine. In terms of supplies, logistics and leadership,…
[RERUN] EPISODE 83: From Slavery to Boxing: The Story of Bill Richmond [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:59:55
“Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Boxing inhabits a sacred space predating civilization; or, to use D.H. Lawrence’s phrase, before God was love.” Joyce Carol Oates Stories that begin wit…
EPISODE 115: Us vs. Them [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:57
“I love people as I meet them one by one. People are just wonderful as individuals. You see the whole universe in their eyes if you look carefully. But as soon as they begin to group, as soon as they begin to clot, when…
Listen Now: American History Tellers | The Mayflower [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:44
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America?…
[RERUN] EPISODE 82: The Other 300 (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:45:21
“Take me back to the quarries.” Philoxenus “Pelopidas died as he’d lived, a freedom fighter who rushed fearlessly into the fray.” James Romm “As one approaches Chaeronea, there is a tomb of the Thebans who died in the ba…
[RERUN] EPISODE 81: The Other 300 (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:04:23
“There was no uproar, and no silence either, but that certain type of noise that results from anger and battle. Clashing shield on shield, they were shoving, fighting, killing, dying.” Xenophon “Pelopidas, after receivin…

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