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History on Fire

[This special subset of episodes is available only on Luminary.] A podcast where history and epic collide! "History on Fire" is created and hosted by university professor Daniele Bolelli.

  1. 2022. 05. 21. • 구독자 전용

    From George Washington to Great White Whales, From the Little Bighorn to the Mayflower: A Conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick

    “I like to probe the darkness at the edges of our nation’s history. Instead of the triumphs, I’m most interested in the struggle. Whether it’s the twenty crew members of a whaleship that’s just been rammed by a whale or a group of religious refugees left on an unfamiliar coast by an old leaky ship called the Mayflower, I’m compelled to explore what happens to people in the worst of times, especially when it comes to issues of leadership.” Nathaniel Philbrick Most academic texts on history tend to be heavy on accuracy but also painfully tedious. Most popular writers of history are entertaining but often obscenely inaccurate. It is not common to run into someone who is a meticulous researcher AND also a brilliant writer. The man I get to chat with today is precisely one of those exceptions. To put it simply, Nathaniel Philbrick is one of the very best writers of history you can run into. In the first half of today’s episode, I interview Nathaniel. After the interview, I discuss some of the stories Nathaniel has covered in his book, with particular attention on the topic of Nathaniel’s book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, the tale that inspired Moby Dick.

    1시간 30분

  2. 2022. 04. 16. • 구독자 전용

    Chianti and Fava Beans, Cannibalism and Revenge: The Tale of Liver-Eating Johnson

    “What’s important to realize when winnowing through the fields of time is that legends get perpetuated because their very perpetuation serves a purpose. Whether or not all of the stories are true, untrue, or somewhat basically just a little bit in between true and untrue—that’s the historian’s quagmire when writing about historical figures.” –DJ Herda “The mountain man had no back-up systems. If his reflexes failed, if he erred, he was dead and his hair was gone.” –Don D. Walker “This show explores those tall-tales and tries to figure out what’s fact, what’s fiction, and what is such a good story it simply must be told.” –Sebastian Major The tale of Liver-Eating Johnson has been immortalized in the book Crow Killer, and later popularized by the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford. Countless articles and websites have uncritically repeated the story: Johnson, a mountain man in the American West in the 1800s, supposedly married a Salish woman and had a child with her. But one day, he found his wife and child murdered, and went on a cannibalistic one-man war against the Natives responsible. When I first started researching this story, my superficial knowledge of the topic led me to believe I was about to do a deep dive into an epic historical tale of love and revenge. Soon after I began my dive, I quickly realized this was indeed a tale of revenge (maybe not so much love but definitely revenge,) but I had to question how much the adjective ‘historical’ applied here. This episode dissects the tale to separate what is actually true (not much) and what is purely legend (most of it), and why some legends are presented as history in the first place.

    1시간 43분

  3. 2022. 03. 19. • 구독자 전용

    The Marquis de Lafayette: A Conversation with Mike Duncan

    “Marat posed a difficult challenge for Lafayette—a difficult challenge for any free society. Lafayette was committed to the principle of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but here was a journalist using fanatical lies and scurrilous accusations to incite the population to mass murder.” –Mike Duncan “Lafayette’s unique position at the center of the action meant, as Paris polarized, his attempt to hold the center offended everyone.” –Mike Duncan Mike Duncan is one of the godfathers of historical podcasting. He began podcasting before most people had any clue what the podcasting medium even entailed. His History of Rome and Revolutions are among the most popular historical podcasts ever created. And when he is not recording, Mike is busy writing best-selling books such as The Storm Before the Storm and Hero of Two Worlds. In this whirlwind of productivity, Mike was gracious enough to find some time to sit with me for a conversation about the life of Gilbert du Motier, better known as Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette is a rather wild historical figure, since he played a key role in two of the main revolutions that changed the destiny of the West—the American and the French revolutions. Rather than trying to summarize his eventful life in a few lines, I invite you to listen in to this discussion breaking down what makes Lafayette such a fascinating character.

    1시간 21분

  4. 2022. 02. 19. • 구독자 전용

    The Red Wedding

    “I ask you why we must tear ourselves apart for this small question of religion?” -- from the movie Elizabeth Once upon a time Game of Thrones was the most watched show on earth, and I could freely make references to it knowing my listeners would get them. Then came the last season that was so universally reviled that I’m thinking I may get rotten tomatoes thrown at me for even bringing it up. But A. this is a podcast, not a live event, so I hope to stay safe from the spoiled tomatoes. And B. I’d hope you’d be so kind as to let me slide one Game of Thrones reference—at least in a case like this when it’s very pertinent. One of the most shocking episodes in a series that was built on shocking viewers was the Red Wedding. What begins as a joyful celebration for a wedding quickly turns into a bloody massacre. Well… what we are going to play with today in this episode makes Game of Thrones look tame. This is the Red Wedding to the 10th power. The year was 1572, and a royal wedding between the Catholic sister of the King of France and a Protestant prince was supposed to bring an end to the French Wars of Religion. So, thousands of sworn enemies converged on Paris for the wedding. What could possibly go wrong . . . Lots of people have weddings where things don’t work out perfectly. Some have truly unlucky, bad weddings. But unless your wedding led to the massacre of thousands of people, you probably had a better one than Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre.

    1시간 43분

  5. 2022. 02. 05. • 구독자 전용

    The ‘Death, Destruction and Damnation’ World Tour Reaches Florida

    "I answered him that… I, as Captain-General of these provinces, was waging a war of fire and blood against all who came to settle these parts and plant in them their evil Lutheran sect... For this reason, I would not grant them a safe passage, but would sooner follow them by sea and land until I had taken their lives." Captain Pedro Menedez de Aviles “Finding they were all Lutherans, the captain-general ordered them all put to death; but, as I was a priest, and had bowels of mercy, I begged him to grant me the favor of sparing those whom we might find to be Christians. He granted it; and I made investigations, and found ten or twelve of the men Roman Catholics, whom we brought back. All the others were executed, because they were Lutherans and enemies of our Holy Catholic faith. All this took place on Saturday, September 29th, 1565.” Father Francisco Lopez Today’s story is packed with pirates, mutineers, and scores of people killing each other in the name of Jesus. I’m willing to bet that if I were to tell you that this episode will focus on the people who came to the area that would become the U.S., to flee religious conflict in Europe and create a society according to their version of Christianity, most of you would think of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock in 1620, or perhaps Jamestown in 1607. But those are not the people I’ll be speaking about today. Our story is indeed about the first Protestants in North America but it predates the Pilgrims stepping off the Mayflower by 56 years, and the settling of Jamestown by 43 years. This is the tale of the first religious conflict between European nations within the boundaries of what will later become United States. Catholic Spaniards and French Protestants square off in Florida in the 1560s, when the European wars of religion do a brief stop in the Americas as part of their ‘death, destruction and damnation’ world tour.

    1시간 56분

  6. 2022. 01. 22. • 구독자 전용

    The French Wars of Religion

    “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 about politics, faith, paranoia, betrayal and conspiracy theories. More specifically, this is about the origin of the French wars of religion. In this episode, we play with Martin Luther, the printing press, Caterina de Medici, the Merindol massacre, human Christmas decoration, and the Guise brothers. We’ll run into the king of France demanding to be a spectator to his teenage son and his bride having sex for the first time. We’ll see a queen drinking copious amounts of a mule’s urine to supposedly facilitate pregnancy. We’ll consider the fate of Count Sebastiano de Montecuccoli, who was accused of poisoning the heir to the throne so he was tied to four horses sent running in opposite directions. We’ll chat about Henry II who sent his 13 year-old to marry an enemy of the country, and then managed to die at a joust during her wedding celebrations. And of course, much, much more.

    1시간 36분

  7. 2021. 12. 18.

    The Siege That Changed All of History

    “I cut off their heads. I burned them with fire. With their blood I dyed the mountain red like red wool. Men I impaled on stakes. The city I destroyed, devastated… the young men and maidens I burned in the fire.” Ashurnairpal II “I filled the wide plain with the corpses of his warriors.. These [rebels] I impaled on stakes. …A pyramid of heads I erected in front of the city.” Salmaneser III “Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will rescue us!’ Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people from the king of Assyria? What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power? What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the Lord can rescue Jerusalem from me?” Isaiah 36:18-20 History is a fickle beast. Some events may not seem like much at the time when they happen, but they end up radically shaping all events afterwards. For example, had just one event turned out different—an event largely forgotten today, such as the siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE—and all of history would have changed. If the siege had ended in the way everyone expected it to end, Judaism would have disappeared from the pages of history, and Christianity and Islam would have never been born. Can you imagine how different the world would be if you were to remove the entire history of the three main monotheistic religions? In this episode we’ll tackle this greatest of ‘what ifs.’ In the process of doing so, we’ll discuss the origins of Western monotheism, Assyrian culture, Hebrew legends, the Assyrian protection racket, the clash between monotheistic Hebrews and polytheistic Hebrews, how the Assyrians turned 10 of the tribes of Israel into the “lost tribes”, committing ‘suicide by Assyrian’, the destruction of Lachish, what may have happened in Jerusalem in 701 BCE, and much more.

    2시간 30분

  8. 2021. 11. 20. • 구독자 전용

    History and Video Games

    “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 ability to choose—whatever you think it is true—that makes us human… There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.” Ezio Auditore in Assassin’s Creed II “History is our playground” tagline to the Assassin’s Creed series The excellent Alexander Von Sternberg (from the podcast History Impossible) joins me to discuss how video games are changing the way we can understand history. Obviously, people play video games for entertainment—no argument there. But it is also true that few things can allow us to immerse ourselves in a multi-faceted reconstruction of the past as much as video games do. In the course of the discussion, we touch on the prehistoric adventures of Far Cry Primal, sexuality in video games, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, multiple volumes of Assassin’s Creed, the joys of becoming a playboy assassin in the Renaissance, from hanging out with Leonardo Da Vinci to riding along with Paul Revere, from making out with Caterina Sforza to dumping tea in the Boston’s harbor, Ghost of Tsushima, Gun, Red Dead Redemption, This Land Is My Land, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and much more.

    2시간 16분
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