The story of China’s infamous One-Child Policy, the most ambitious (and catastrophic) social engineering project the modern world has ever seen.

SOURCES:

Fong, Mei. One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment. 2016

Evans, Karin. The Lost Daughters of China. 2008

Johnson, Kay Ann. China’s Hidden Children. 2016

Xinran, Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love. 2012

Greenhalgh, Susan. Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. 2008. 

Ren, Yuan. “How China's one-child policy overhauled the status and prospects of girls like me”. The Telegraph. Dec 2013. 

Clarke, Aileen. “See How The One-Child Policy Changed China”. National Geographic. Nov 2015. 

Chen, Shanshan. “Lost lives: the battle of China's invisible children to recover missed years”. Reuters. Dec 2016.

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How a single week in 1967 changed the Middle East, and the world, forever. This is the action-packed, heartbreaking origin story of Israel and the Six-Day War. 

SOURCES:

Oren, Michael B. Six Days Of War. 2002.

Pressfield, Steven. The Lion’s Gate. 2014.

Churchill, Randolph S. The Six Day War. 1967

Dana, Seif. “The 1967 Naksa: The Making of the New Middle East”. Al Jazeera. June 2016.

Samuel, Sigal. “How the Six Day War Transformed Religion”. The Atlantic. Jun 5 2017

Land, Graham. “Was the Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome a Preventable Tragedy?” HistoryHit. July 2018

Josephus. The Works of Josephus. The Wars of the Jews, Book 7

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African berserkers, graceful samurai, and deadly Soviet fighter pilots. A three-part, globe-trotting tour of remarkable female soldiers and the complicated lives that they led.

SOURCES:

Vinogradova, Lyuba. Defending the Motherland. 2015

Alpern, Stanley B. Amazons of Black Sparta. 1998.

Dash, Mike. “Dahomey’s Women Warriors”. Smithsonian.com. Sept 2011

Busch, Jenna. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons, the Inspiration for the Dora Milaje”. SyFy Wire. Nov 2018.

Joubeaud, Edouard. The Women Soldiers of Dahomey. UNESCO Digital Library. 2014

“Three Months in Captivity in Dahomey”. The Sydney Morning Herald. Oct 1890

Budnik, Ruslan. “Dahomey Amazons - The Only Elite All-Female Warrior Regiments”. War History Online. Oct 2018

Okoh, Lize. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons: The All-Female Warriors of West Africa”. Culture Trip. May 2018.

Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Women, 1184 -1877. 2012.

Hoffman, Michael. “Women Warriors of Japan”. The Japan Times. Oct 2011.

Hastings, Cristobel. “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan's Women Samurai, Were Erased From History”. VICE. Sept 2018.

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The Rated-R-for-Russian story of the Red Army’s horrific campaign of vengeance against Nazi Germany.

 SOURCES:

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945. 2003.

Huggler, Justin. “Fall of Berlin: ‘Of course I was afraid. I was 17 years old.’”. The Telegraph UK. May 2015

Johnson, Daniel. “Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps”. The Guardian. Jan 2002.

Ash, Lucy. “The Rape of Berlin”. BBC News. May 2015.

Fitzgerald, Nora. “Berliners recall Red Army atrocities”. Chicago Tribune. September 2002.

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Sea battles, tiger hunts, and a mountain of human noses. This is the Shakespearean saga that triggered centuries of bad blood between Korea and Japan.

SOURCES:

Samuel, Hawley. The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China. 2005

Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Invasion of Korea. 2008.

Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan, 1467-1615. 2002

Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. 1982

Kristof, Nicholas D. “Japan, Korea, and 1597: A Year That Lives in Infamy”. Sept 1997

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A myth-busting breakdown of history’s favorite fitness cult.

SOURCES:

Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other. 2005.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War

Plutarch. Parallel Lives

Xenophon. Hellenica

Cartledge, Paul. “The Socratics’ Sparta and Rosseau’s”. Cambridge University. 1998

Penades, Antonio. “Bred for Battle - Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine”. National Geographic History. Dec 2016.

 Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017

Andrews, Evan. “8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan”. History.com. Sept 2018 

Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017

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A quick introduction to the concept behind the show and your host, Zach Cornwell. 

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