History on the Bright Side

Jared Andrus

A collection of inspiring people and actions in religious, sports, political and life history. Even a single candle can overcome darkness; light yours here!

  1. 11/13/2020 ·  Bonus

    History on the Darkside Crossover

    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)

  2. 11/04/2020

    Black Hawks

    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.

  3. 11/04/2020

    Comrades

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

  4. 10/30/2020

    No Survivors

    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.

  5. 10/09/2020

    Leaving the Field

    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.

  6. 10/02/2020

    Hate or Hospitality

    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.

  7. 09/25/2020

    Come to the Cross

    Why would a black man attend a KKK rally?  Why would a Grand Dragon of the KKK be found in a black man's living room?  Daryl Davis has taken a very personal response to racism after experiencing hate as a child.  Find out how he has become the unlikeliest of friends with those who claimed to hate him and given us all a different tool to fight racism and division in America today.

  8. 09/23/2020

    Mother Moses

    Lesser known facts about George Washington and Harriet Tubman.  Beyond the myths we find that the truth; a truth that is every bit as inspiring as the exaggerations we learned in grade school.

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