History on the Bright Side Jared Andrus

Enjoy a bonus episode of my longer format podcast "History on the Dark Side".  This episode is a conversation about the Boston massacre and some of the many similarities in our modern America today.  (From HOTDS S1 E12)

The raid in Mogadishu immortalized in the book and film Black hawk Down provides true life heroism and an understanding of the price we pay to leave no man behind.

Twice upon a time, a Russian officer saved the world from Nuclear War

Abraham Wald was an exiled European Jew whose work with the US military during WW2 saved lives and brought a new way of thinking about mathematics in the war and everyday life.  

Pat Tillman was a professional football player who walked away from the game and joined the Army after 9/11.  His desire to be true to himself is complemented by his mother's demands for truth following his death in Afghanistan.  

Paul Rusesabagina found himself and his family squarely in the middle of one of the worst genocides since the holocaust.   But his "wider" family became his obsession as he protected over a 1000 tutsis from the mobs and militia that sought to cut them down with machetes.