Historium

By Jake Barton

Did you ever fall asleep in history class? You’re not alone. History can be boring when focusing on only dates and statistics. Historium seeks to find the narrative of history in some of the most unli... more

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The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.

Historium episodes:

January 23, 2020 #58 The Battle of Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, California, the fresh recruits, with their new crew cuts and wrinkled uniforms, would get their first taste of combat on February 24th, 1942...
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12min
December 24, 2019 #57 A White Christmas in Saigon
Saigon, Vietnam. April 1975.
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21min
December 16, 2019 #56 Savior of Mothers
Childbed fever was killing new mothers with a vengeance. In Hungary, young doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found a cure. However, there was one problem... No one believed him.
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27min
November 21, 2019 #55 Death Row Baseball
Baseball has long been dubbed America’s pastime, but would that change if players had to literally play for their lives?
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27min
October 24, 2019 #54 The Second Son of God
In the 1850s, a Christian cult rattles imperial China to its core...
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2h 34min
July 09, 2019 #53 Interview with Egyptologist Colleen Darnell
Mummies, hieroglyphs, pyramids, vintage fashion; Egyptologist and vintage fashion historian Colleen Darnell digs through it all.

https://www.instagram.com/vintage_egyptologist
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42min
June 20, 2019 #52 [MiniStorium] Bad Luck
History is full of moments of misfortune, irony, or just plain ol’ bad luck. This episode contains eight mini-stories about the times where things went from bad to worse.
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36min
May 24, 2019 #51 The Ghosts of Notre Dame
This episode is devoted to the 800 year old Notre Dame cathedral and it's incredibly storied past.
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31min
April 16, 2019 #50 Interview with Dirk Langeveld, author of The Artful Dodger
The story of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has everything I'm looking for when looking for topics: A wild ride full of twists, turns, and downright unbelievable moments.

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Artful-Dodger-20-Year-Cleveland-Bergdoll/dp/1973925893
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42min
April 01, 2019 #49 Dead Reckoning
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
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16min

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How many episodes does Historium have?

The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.

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