Softcore History

Softcore History

Author: Softcore History Language: English Episodes: 100
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A podcast for the casual fan of history. The Wikipedia reader. The kids who grew up with a dad who watched the same 10 hours of World War II specials on The History Channel. Join Dan Regester, Rob Fox, and a weekly guest as they tastefully insert themselves into the past. The only thing we don’t show is our research.
Episodes
The Man Who Lived Every Basic Bro's Dream Life [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:36:21
Titanic Thompson would bet on anything, and usually win. And usually because he was cheating. It's one of the many reasons Titanic is the greatest gambler in American history. He hustled golf at country clubs with a youn…
The Rise Of The Last Lion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:34
Winston Churchill was one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century, taking power over the United Kingdom in the midst of World War II. Jack Mandaville joins us to talk about the Last Lion's unhinged u…
The Founding Father of Organized Crime [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:47
Kyle Bandujo, podcaster and author of the new sports movie book "Movies With Balls", joins the show to talk about one of the most famous figures in American sports scandal history: Arnold Rothstein. Though he was most fa…
The Civil War's Cocktail Hour [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:47
Bleeding Kansas was a series of conflicts between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces after the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Election fraud, murder, and guerilla warfare were rampant during this five year…
Abe Lincoln's Favorite Hate Read [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:31
19th Century Southern lawyer-turned-sociologist and noted shut-in George Fitzhugh was "too online" 140 years before the internet was even invented. He stayed inside all day reading newspapers, books, and political pamphl…
The Real Game Of Thrones [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:38
The Wars of Roses were a series of civil wars fought for the English crown from 1455 to 1487. These bloody and nasty conflicts between the Houses of Lancaster and York inspired George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series…
Would You Eat Hippo? - FREE PATREON PREVIEW [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:26
An American meat shortage in 1910 caused people to get real desperate, real fast. Enter Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, who proposed the American Hippo Bill, which would import hippos from Africa to be rais…
Every Time A President Personally Killed Someone [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:01
Presidents aren't only passive victims. Helpless bystanders as gunmen attempt to kill them. This week we discuss every American president who TOOK lives, from the ones you know like Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to…
People Will Watch Anything They Can Bet On [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:40
Gilded Age Americans were hungry for entertainment and because of this, somehow, the simple hobby of walking captivated the country. So much so that it briefly developed into our national sport and the most gambled-on at…
The Time Polygamists Took On The Holy Roman Empire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:59
Not all Protestant movements in the 16th Century had Martin Luther's success. Enter the Münster Rebellion, in which a bunch of anti-Catholic, anti-Lutheran lunatics took over a city, enacted full-on communism (except for…

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