Storytime with the Historists

By Mr. Booren and Mrs. Dumas

We tell the weird, wonderful, and whimsical stories that make up the world's history, but we do it in our own way. We are HISTORISTS. This is a podcast geared for AP World History, AP U.S. History, an... more

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The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.

Storytime with the Historists episodes:

June 24, 2023 S3 E8: Front Row Seats - The Effects of Globalization
In this episode, your hosts Matt and Jen debate whether the positives outweigh the negatives in our (ever increasingly), interconnected world; thanks, globalization?

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLEHKyc6fHTVmmmYg-5XUOHeauuAlL8D1FpW1R1MjXw/edit?usp=sharing

Abington Ridge Collective Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/tTPBP

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48min
April 08, 2023 S3 E7: Drain the Cup to the Dregs - The French Revolution, Part III
In the finale of our three-part series, Matt and Jen wrap up the disastrous Varennes trip that leads to the execution of King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette after a new radical phase of the revolution begins.
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48min
March 05, 2023 S3 E6: Runaway Train - The French Revolution, Part II
In this episode, Jen and Matt continue to the absolutely ridiculously disastrous story of King Louis XVI's attempt to escape from Varennes, where the royal family is captured by the village idiot!
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29min
March 03, 2023 S3 E5: More of an Ideas Guy - The French Revolution, Part I
In this episode, Jen and Matt discuss the disastrous first steps of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they try to escape from Varennes, and halt the French Revolution.
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31min
October 31, 2022 S3 E4: Hunting Humans - The History of Zombies
In this (ZOMBIE!) episode, Jen and Matt trace the origins of Zombies to the Atlantic Slave Trade and enlighten on the impact of zombies on pop culture.

Check out the show notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OdKtHR3sTKduENFhZRqMWome9JSo2sq5FBFai5Yv6s/

A huge thank you to the Abington Ridge Collective and David for the awesome music, we REALLY appreciate it. Check them out at: https://soundcloud.com/abingtonridge
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42min
October 26, 2022 S3 E3: Hungarian Guns- The Siege of Constantinople, Part II
In this episode, Jen and Matt finish the explosive story of the siege of Constantinople. Flamethrowers, hand to hand combat, tunnel rats...it's the early modern version of COD.
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38min
October 13, 2022 S3 E2: The Red Apple - The Siege of Constantinople, Part I
In this episode, Matt and Jen take you to Anatolia to tell the incredible story of the Ottoman siege of Constantinople

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s6PlLn31WpFRbx1ihaxBEMSNVAjk88OcptrdLsWf4ms/edit?usp=sharing

Abington Ridge Collective Soundcloud: ⁠https://on.soundcloud.com/tTPBP
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39min
October 13, 2022 S3 E1: Feast of Blood - The Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate
In this episode, Jen and Matt discuss the the grizzly ending of one of the first Islamic Empires - The Umayyad Caliphate.
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38min
September 05, 2022 S2 E10(b): Bad Shellfish-The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Part II
In this episode, Matt and Jen continue their discussion on the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the probable CIA involvement in the assassination. We finish with discussion of the ethics of fighting bad, and if there is a limit to what states should do to achieve righteous goals.
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44min
July 30, 2021S2 E10(a): Freedom Turned into a Cage, The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Part I
Jen and Matt take listeners on a tragic journey through the assassination of the idealistic leader Patrice Lumumba.

Song courtesy of Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/c-i-a-criminals-in-action/1452789645?i=19680141

Sources for today's podcast:
From CIA.gov’s Center for the Study of Intelligence the book review of: Death in the Congo: The Murdering of Patrice Lumumba (Vol. 59, no. 4), by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick, Book Reviewed by: Stephen R. Weissman publish December, 2015→ this is fascinating
The political life of the dead Lumumba: Cold War histories and the Congolese student left Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2019 by Pedro Monaville
“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations”The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965 Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department→ a truly mind bending read.
The podcasts: Assassination Podcast and the BBC World Service Witness Achieves
And finally, throwing some love to the students of the world, the Harvard University Senior thesis Patrice Lumumba’s Congo: Sovereignty Denied by American Interests by Samuel Kies (2015) reviewed by Professors Andrew Friedman and Darin Hayton.
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36min

FAQs about Storytime with the Historists:

How many episodes does Storytime with the Historists have?

The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.