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.
Episodes
EPISODE 96: The Wildest Man You Have Never Heard Of: Thomas Morton [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:29:56
“The Puritans feared that which was undomesticated.” Jeff Hendricks “Our earliest American heroes were Morton’s oppressors, Endicott, Bradford, Miles Standish. Merry Mount’s been expunged from the official version becaus…
[RERUN] EPISODE 50 Philosophers and Thugs: Jigoro Kano (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:24:43
“I teach Kodokan judo as a way of life.” Jigoro Kano “Even though he was drunker than usual, Saigo came to the driver’s aid. The burly sailors laughed out loud: “Scram, midget!” Much to their great surprise and considera…
[RERUN] EPISODE 49 The Father of Martial Arts: Jigoro Kano (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:50:53
“It was a period of stupendous change and immense challenge; the entire social, political, and economic landscape of Japan would be transformed within a few decades. Just as this new era was dawning in Japan, Jigoro Kano…
EPISODE 95: Tom Le Forge: The Real Dances with Wolves [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:46:22
“The adopted father gave away many presents to the people, and these in turn gave presents to me. Thus I became a Crow Indian, a brother of Three Irons and a son of Yellow Leggings, who was a leading counselor of Blackbi…
[RERUN] EPISODE 48: Give Me Back My Legions! (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:59:36
“In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes” Victor Hugo “Inconceivable!” From The Princess Bride A little over 2,000 years ago, Rome was a well-oiled wa…
EPISODE 94: The Last War Chief [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:34:26
“Reflecting upon the chiefs I had known, I realized that here had never been one who was very well off. Poverty was part of a chief’s obligations…” Frank Bird Linderman Plenty Coups “While we painted ourselves the drums…
EPISODE 93: The Beast of Gevaudan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:32:17
“This animal is a monster whose father is a lion; it remains open what the mother is.” Jean-Baptiste Boulanger Duhamel “I would be tempted to imagine that we are dealing with a witch, or the devil in person, if only I co…
EPISODE 92: Jujitsuffragettes With Attitude [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:30:16
“…a mad, wicked folly…” Queen Victoria about the notion of women having the right to vote “When I watched a policeman fell a girl to the ground and kick her across the platform, my only regret was that I had no weapon wi…

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