September 20, 1187. It’s daytime outside the walls of Jerusalem. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, ponders his next attack. His troops encircle and lay siege to the city. They vastly outnumber the Crusader knights inside, and Saladin is on the cusp of a victory he never dreamed possible. But he has a problem. Balian of Ibelin leads the Crusader defenses within the city walls. He threatens to destroy Muslim holy sites if Saladin attacks. The Sultan must make a choice. One that will impact his legacy, the lives of thousands, and the future of Jerusalem. Special thanks to our guest, Dr. Suleiman Mourad, Professor of Religion at Smith College and author of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4cItvBG">Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades</a>.**This episode originally aired September 19, 2022.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://htwpod.com">htwpod.com</a>.

September 20, 1187. It’s daytime outside the walls of Jerusalem. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, ponders his next attack. His troops encircle and lay siege to the city. They vastly outnumber the Crusader knights inside, and Saladin is on the cusp of a victory he never dreamed possible. But he has a problem. Balian of Ibelin leads the Crusader defenses within the city walls. He threatens to destroy Muslim holy sites if Saladin attacks. The Sultan must make a choice. One that will impact his legacy, the lives of thousands, and the future of Jerusalem. Special thanks to our guest, Dr. Suleiman Mourad, Professor of Religion at Smith College and author of Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades. **This episode originally aired September 19, 2022. To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at historythisweekpodcast.com. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at historythisweek@history.com. Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at htwpod.com.

September 20, 1187. It’s daytime outside the walls of Jerusalem. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, ponders his next attack. His troops encircle and lay siege to the city. They vastly outnumber the Crusader knights inside, and Saladin is on the cusp of a victory he never dreamed possible. But he has a problem. Balian of Ibelin leads the Crusader defenses within the city walls. He threatens to destroy Muslim holy sites if Saladin attacks. The Sultan must make a choice. One that will impact his legacy, the lives of thousands, and the future of Jerusalem.&nbsp;Special thanks to our guest, Dr. Suleiman Mourad, Professor of Religion at Smith College and author of <a href="https://amzn.to/4cItvBG" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades</a>.**This episode originally aired September 19, 2022.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a href="http://htwpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">htwpod.com</a>.

Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem

September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to the ground, he knows something is wrong. After the World Trade Center’s North Tower is struck, Thornton instinctively drives his ship down towards Lower Manhattan. He will soon be joined by countless other marine craft: ferries, fishing boats, tugboats, and more. With the roads, bridges, and trains that connect the island of Manhattan to the rest of the world shut down, this collection of civilian, commercial, and military boats manages to carry more than 500,000 survivors to safety. How did this impromptu evacuation, which was larger than Dunkirk during WWII, come together? And how does one ferry boat captain reflect on the shared sense of duty he felt on that fateful day?**This episode originally aired September 6, 2021.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://htwpod.com">htwpod.com</a>.

September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to the ground, he knows something is wrong. After the World Trade Center’s North Tower is struck, Thornton instinctively drives his ship down towards Lower Manhattan. He will soon be joined by countless other marine craft: ferries, fishing boats, tugboats, and more. With the roads, bridges, and trains that connect the island of Manhattan to the rest of the world shut down, this collection of civilian, commercial, and military boats manages to carry more than 500,000 survivors to safety. How did this impromptu evacuation, which was larger than Dunkirk during WWII, come together? And how does one ferry boat captain reflect on the shared sense of duty he felt on that fateful day? **This episode originally aired September 6, 2021. To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at historythisweekpodcast.com. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at historythisweek@history.com. Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at htwpod.com.

September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to the ground, he knows something is wrong. After the World Trade Center’s North Tower is struck, Thornton instinctively drives his ship down towards Lower Manhattan. He will soon be joined by countless other marine craft: ferries, fishing boats, tugboats, and more.&nbsp;With the roads, bridges, and trains that connect the island of Manhattan to the rest of the world shut down, this collection of civilian, commercial, and military boats manages to carry more than 500,000 survivors to safety. How did this impromptu evacuation, which was larger than Dunkirk during WWII, come together? And how does one ferry boat captain reflect on the shared sense of duty he felt on that fateful day?**This episode originally aired September 6, 2021.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a href="http://htwpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">htwpod.com</a>.

9/11: Rescue on the Water

September 12, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this otherwise healthy young woman will be dead. Others like her will soon follow. They’d all shared what seemed to be a dream job: applying glow-in-the-dark paint to clock faces. The paint glowed because it was saturated with radium, the wonder element of its day. And now that radium has burrowed inside the bones and lungs of the women. How did a supposed wonder element and cure-all come to be seen for what it was – a deadly poison? And how did a group of courageous young women, racing the clock of their own mortality, expose this truth?Special thanks to Kate Moore, author of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/46vYAov">The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women</a>. Also, a huge thank you to Art Fryer, nephew of Grace Fryer, one of the “Radium Girls.”**This episode originally aired September 12, 2022.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://htwpod.com">htwpod.com</a>.

September 12, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this otherwise healthy young woman will be dead. Others like her will soon follow. They’d all shared what seemed to be a dream job: applying glow-in-the-dark paint to clock faces. The paint glowed because it was saturated with radium, the wonder element of its day. And now that radium has burrowed inside the bones and lungs of the women. How did a supposed wonder element and cure-all come to be seen for what it was – a deadly poison? And how did a group of courageous young women, racing the clock of their own mortality, expose this truth? Special thanks to Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Also, a huge thank you to Art Fryer, nephew of Grace Fryer, one of the “Radium Girls.” **This episode originally aired September 12, 2022. To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at historythisweekpodcast.com. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at historythisweek@history.com. Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at htwpod.com.

September 12, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this otherwise healthy young woman will be dead. Others like her will soon follow. They’d all shared what seemed to be a dream job: applying glow-in-the-dark paint to clock faces. The paint glowed because it was saturated with radium, the wonder element of its day. And now that radium has burrowed inside the bones and lungs of the women. How did a supposed wonder element and cure-all come to be seen for what it was – a deadly poison? And how did a group of courageous young women, racing the clock of their own mortality, expose this truth?Special thanks to Kate Moore, author of <a href="https://amzn.to/46vYAov" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women</a>. Also, a huge thank you to Art Fryer, nephew of Grace Fryer, one of the “Radium Girls.”**This episode originally aired September 12, 2022.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a href="http://htwpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">htwpod.com</a>.

The Radium Girls Fight Back

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we're bringing you Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 – a collaboration between the History Channel and WNYC Studios. This was adapted from the complete nine-part series, which you can find by searching for Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 wherever you get your podcasts.

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we're bringing you Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 – a collaboration between the History Channel and WNYC Studios. This was adapted from the complete nine-part series, which you can find by searching for Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 wherever you get your podcasts.

Blindspot: The Road to 9/11

August 10, 1792. At midnight, a single church bell begins to ring in Paris. Then another. And another. It's not a call to mass… it's a call to arms. For three years, King Louis XVI and his family have been living as prisoners in a palace, under virtual house arrest at the Tuileries, while France fights over one seething question: can the monarchy survive the Revolution? The radicals have issued a deadline: get rid of the king by the end of August 9th, or we'll take matters into our own hands. The deadline has just passed.Today, midnight for the monarchy. How did France, whose kings were once anointed with holy oil and believed to cure disease by touch, come to loathe Louis XVI so much? And how does centuries of royal rule come crashing down in a single day?Special thanks to our guests: David Andress, professor of modern history at the University of Portsmouth and author of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/45hyDsl">The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution</a>; and Marisa Linton, professor of history turned prize-winning novelist. She's the author of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4wfcmX6">Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution</a>, and her latest novel, Domain of Darkness, will be published this December.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://htwpod.com">htwpod.com</a>.

August 10, 1792. At midnight, a single church bell begins to ring in Paris. Then another. And another. It's not a call to mass… it's a call to arms. For three years, King Louis XVI and his family have been living as prisoners in a palace, under virtual house arrest at the Tuileries, while France fights over one seething question: can the monarchy survive the Revolution? The radicals have issued a deadline: get rid of the king by the end of August 9th, or we'll take matters into our own hands. The deadline has just passed. Today, midnight for the monarchy. How did France, whose kings were once anointed with holy oil and believed to cure disease by touch, come to loathe Louis XVI so much? And how does centuries of royal rule come crashing down in a single day? Special thanks to our guests: David Andress, professor of modern history at the University of Portsmouth and author of The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution; and Marisa Linton, professor of history turned prize-winning novelist. She's the author of Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution, and her latest novel, Domain of Darkness, will be published this December. To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at historythisweekpodcast.com. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at historythisweek@history.com. Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at htwpod.com.

August 10, 1792. At midnight, a single church bell begins to ring in Paris. Then another. And another. It's not a call to mass… it's a call to arms. For three years, King Louis XVI and his family have been living as prisoners in a palace, under virtual house arrest at the Tuileries, while France fights over one seething question: can the monarchy survive the Revolution? The radicals have issued a deadline: get rid of the king by the end of August 9th, or we'll take matters into our own hands. The deadline has just passed.Today, midnight for the monarchy. How did France, whose kings were once anointed with holy oil and believed to cure disease by touch, come to loathe Louis XVI so much? And how does centuries of royal rule come crashing down in a single day?Special thanks to our guests: David Andress, professor of modern history at the University of Portsmouth and author of <a href="https://amzn.to/45hyDsl" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution</a>; and Marisa Linton, professor of history turned prize-winning novelist. She's the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/4wfcmX6" rel="noopener noreferrer">Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution</a>, and her latest novel, Domain of Darkness, will be published this December.To stay updated on all things HISTORY This Week, sign up at <a href="http://historythisweekpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweekpodcast.com</a>. Have thoughts or questions? Email us at <a href="mailto:historythisweek@history.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">historythisweek@history.com</a>.Sign up for ad-free listening and bonus episodes at <a href="http://htwpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">htwpod.com</a>.

The French Monarchy Falls in a Day

This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today. New episodes every Monday, starting January 2020. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today. New episodes every Monday, starting January 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today. New episodes every Monday, starting January 2020. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Introducing: HISTORY This Week

Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content!This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written.&nbsp;Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at&nbsp;historythisweek@history.com. HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content!This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com. HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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