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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EPISODE 65: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3): A River of Death [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:22:07
“Everywhere in southern Anhui they are eating people.” Zeng Guofan “Infants but recently born were torn from their mother’s breasts, and disemboweled before their faces. Young strong men were disemboweled, mutilated, and…
EPISODE 63: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1): Drug Dealers and Visionaries [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:43
“The entire story of the Taiping Rebellion might be told, from one perspective, as the rage of a failed exam candidate writ large.” Stephen Platt “They may not intend to harm others on purpose, but the fact remains that…
EPISODE 62: Plagues, Mystery and Dancing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:05
“The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveler… Knowledge is ex…
EPISODE 61: Raiders in the Night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:17:36
“Never in history had the United States Army been called on to rescue such a large number of POWs from so deep in enemy territory.” William Breuer “We were in the best shape of our lives, and with this mission we underst…
EPISODE 60: Fear and Loathing in Mongolia (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:49:30
“On these hills, where everywhere were rolling skulls, skeletons, and decaying body parts, Baron Ungern used to like to go to rest.” One of Ungern-Sternberg’s officers “Look at [Europe's] past full of fire and blood and…
EPISODE 59: Fear and Loathing in Mongolia (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:55:13
“My name is surrounded with such hate and fear that no one can judge what is the truth and what is false, what is history, and what is myth.” Roman von Ungern-Sternberg “Ungern had fused with the war, and equally, the wa…
EPISODE 58 Sitting Bull: Wounded Knee (Part 5) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:56:13
“There a papoose cries by its mother’s breast which, cold and insensible, can nourish it no more; there lies a young girl with her long hair sticky of blood, hiding her mutilated face… And here—here rests the beautiful y…
BONUS EPISODE Dan Carlin’s “The End Is Always Near” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:00
“That is the nicest guilt trip anybody has ever given me in my entire life.” — Dan Carlin Dan Carlin is one of my all time favorite human beings, and on top of that an incredible podcaster. He’s now a published author as…

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