Friday Night History

By Nyri A. Bakkalian

Your favorite weekly historical romp! Hosted by Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian. Episode transcripts and more are at http://riverside-wings.com

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The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.

Friday Night History episodes:

November 03, 2023 Episode 72 (S3E6)- Samurai Codes and Neo-Confucian Dogma
On bushido, BS, and Neo-Confucian dogma.
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12min
October 27, 2023 Episode 71 (S3E5)- Square Coin, Square Hole
On famine, finance, and the numismatic equivalent of glitter.
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11min
October 20, 2023 Episode 70 (S3E4)-Samurai Behaving Badly
On vassalage, the fickle nature of samurai loyalty, and why one family was so extra that its internal dispute got turned into a kabuki.
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11min
October 13, 2023 Episode 69 (S3E3)- Loopholes, Castles, and Shogunate Law
On Shogunate law, loopholes, and Sendai Domain's dozens of castles that weren't.
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11min
October 06, 2023 Episode 68 (S3E2)- Paying Taxes in Crickets
On nature, poetry, conspicuous consumption, matchlock guns, and one little species of cricket that lives in modern Sendai.
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11min
September 29, 2023 Episode 67 (S3E1)- Honorable Beggars
On Meiji-era Istanbul, crowdfunding 19th century Armenian style, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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11min
September 19, 2023 FNH Season 3 Teaser
On crickets, castle loopholes, Samurai Behaving Badly, and what to expect in Friday Night History Season 3.
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3min
September 08, 2023 Episode 66 (S2E33)- Ninja vs Buchanan
On the antebellum US Navy, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and that time a ninja went to the White House and met James Buchanan.
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16min
September 01, 2023 Episode 65 (S2E32)- The Introduction of Coffee
By patron request, an old Twitter thread remade into a podcast: on the introduction of coffee to Japan.

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10min
August 24, 2023 Episode 64 (S2E31)- Coast Defense and Coffee
On Russian expansionism, Japanese coast defense policy, and coffee as medicine.

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10min

FAQs about Friday Night History:

How many episodes does Friday Night History have?

The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.