Turning Tides

Turning Tides: Zulu Empire will discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Empire. The first episode, The Crushing, will cover the period from 1000 to 1828, in which Shaka created the Zulu Empire through conquest.

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

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Episode 1 Sources:

1. Zulu Empire Decolonised: Epic History of the Zulu from Pre-Colonial Times to the 21st Century, by Shalo Mbatha

2. The Zulus and Matabele: Warrior Nations, by Glen Lyndon Dodds

3. The Zulu Kings, by Brian Roberts

4. The Anglo Zulu War: Isandlwana: the Revelation of a Disaster, by Ron Lock

5. Africa Through the Eyes of the Other: A Collection of Observations made by European Colonizers, Explorers, and Missionaries in regard to the Zulu, published by abū Firnās & Co., Kharțūm, Sūdān

6. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2682489/

7. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nguni

8. https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0038-23532014000300013

9. http://culture-review.co.za/mfecane-never-happened#:~:text=As%20such%2C%20the%20overriding%20argument,that%20Shaka%20Zulu%20instigated%20it.

10. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-12-the-story-of-an-mfecane-mega-drought-is-written-in-the-trees/

11. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/content_migration/humanities_uct_ac_za/1009/files/2004_MS4.pdf

12. Wikipedia

Etc...

Turning Tides is happy to welcome Stephen H. Lekson on the show. Stephen is an author and an archaeologist; he wrote "A Study of Southwestern Archaeology," among many others titles on the subject.

Stephen Lekson's Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/stephen-lekson

Stephen Lekson's Works on Amazon/Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Stephen-H.-Lekson/author/B001HPM2RG?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=ddcc3e1b-11e2-44c6-b706-64969f2d2763

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array.

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

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Turning Tides is happy to present the second part of our two-part interview series, with Wells Jones as our guest. Wells is an actor, former Antarctic para-rescue, and author. He co-authored, "A Line in the Sand," with Miles Spencer. A Line in the Sand is an historical fiction about two friends who time-travel throughout the middle east.

A Line in the Sand on Amazon/Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Line-Sand-Novel-Miles-Spencer-ebook/dp/B0CX25Y2X4?dplnkId=aec52a19-835c-4a0c-9802-e7bec5e0f3d6&nodl=1

A Line in the Sand on Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Line-Sand-Novel/dp/B0D187YKRN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&dplnkId=7fba5b83-82dc-4d7a-89be-eca8a59db608&nodl=1

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array.

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Turning Tides is happy to present a two-part interview series, with Miles Spencer as our first guest. Miles is an author, mentor, and entrepreneur, who co-authored, "A Line in the Sand," with Wells Jones. A Line in the Sand is an historical fiction about two friends who time-travel throughout the middle east.

A Line in the Sand on Amazon/Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Line-Sand-Novel-Miles-Spencer-ebook/dp/B0CX25Y2X4?dplnkId=aec52a19-835c-4a0c-9802-e7bec5e0f3d6&nodl=1

A Line in the Sand on Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Line-Sand-Novel/dp/B0D187YKRN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&dplnkId=7fba5b83-82dc-4d7a-89be-eca8a59db608&nodl=1

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array.

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The fourth and final episode, Harvest of Souls, will cover the period from 1601 to Present, in which the Puebloan peoples rebel against the Spanish and succeed in achieving independence, for a time.

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Episode 4 Sources:

1. In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest, by David Roberts

2. The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest, by David Roberts

3. Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest, by Kyle Widner

4. Ancient Pueblos Sacred Places: A Field Guide to the Important Puebloan Ruins in the Southwest, by Buddy Mays

5. Mesa Verde: the History of the Ancient Pueblo Settlement, by Dr. Jesse Harasta and Charles River Editors

6. Ramon A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (University of Stanford Press, 1991)

7. https://www.academia.edu/25141045/ROAD_TO_REBELLION_FROM_ACOMA_TO_THE_PUEBLO_REVOLT

8. Wikipedia

Etc...

Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The third episode, La Entrada, will cover the period from 1301 to 1600, in which European arrival upends the Puebloan peoples' way of life, and Oñate y Salazar founds the colony of Nueva México.

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Episode 3 Sources:

1. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, by Craig Childs

2. In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest, by David Roberts

3. A Study of Southwestern Archaeology, by Stephen H. Lekson

4. The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest, by David Roberts

5. Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest, by Kyle Widner

6. Ancient Pueblos Sacred Places: A Field Guide to the Important Puebloan Ruins in the Southwest, by Buddy Mays

7. Mesa Verde: the History of the Ancient Pueblo Settlement, by Dr. Jesse Harasta and Charles River Editors

8. https://kuaua.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/document-1-powerpoint-1540-three-worlds-collide.pdf

9. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-500-year-old-cannons-may-help-unravel-the-mysteries-of-the-coronado-expedition-180985688/

10. https://frontierpartisans.com/34298/the-tiguex-war/

11. Wikipedia

Etc...

Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The second episode, The Great Divide, will cover the period from 1151 to 1300, in which the Puebloan peoples move into their famed cliff dwellings before the drought and great abandonment changed the area forever.

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Episode 2 Sources:

1. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, by Craig Childs

2. In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest, by David Roberts

3. A Study of Southwestern Archaeology, by Stephen H. Lekson

4. The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest, by David Roberts

5. Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest, by Kyle Widner

6. Ancient Pueblos Sacred Places: A Field Guide to the Important Puebloan Ruins in the Southwest, by Buddy Mays

7. Mesa Verde: the History of the Ancient Pueblo Settlement, by Dr. Jesse Harasta and Charles River Editors

8. http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/hohokam2/

9. https://serc.carleton.edu/vignettes/collection/36633.html

10. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

11. https://crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/peoples_mesa_verde/pueblo_III_housing.php#:~:text=The%20small%20upland%20farmsteads%20that,that%20were%20two%20stones%20wide.

12. https://www.ihs.gov/navajo/navajonation/

13. Wikipedia

Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The first episode, Dagger to the Sun, will cover the period from 20,000 B.C.E. to 1150 C.E., in which the Ancestral Puebloans migrated throughout the American southwest and began to build a distinct culture in the deserts of Chaco Canyon.

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky/Mastodon/IG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksent

Email: [email protected]

Episode 1 Sources:

1. Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest, by Kyle Widner

2. A Study of Southwestern Archaeology, by Stephen H. Lekson

3. Ancient Pueblos Sacred Places: A Field Guide to the Important Puebloan Ruins in the Southwest, by Buddy Mays

4. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, by Craig Childs

5. Mesa Verde: The History of the Ancient Pueblo Settlement, by Dr. Jesse Harasta and Charles River Editors

6. In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest, by David Roberts

7. A talk on Kivas featuring Steve Lekson and others: https://crowcanyon.org/resources/why-do-we-call-them-kivas/

8. Christy G. Turner III, Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest. (University of Utah Press, 2011)

9. The Casas Grandes Flower World and its Antecedents in Northwest Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest. Michael Mathiowetz. Presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 (tDar id: 450449) https://core.tdar.org/document/450449/the-casas-grandes-flower-world-and-its-antecedents-in-northwest-mesoamerica-and-the-us-southwest

10. Shannon Burke’s Thesis Project: The Commodified Kokopelli, 2025: https://kokopelli.georgetown.domains/a-huge-misunderstanding/

Etc....

Turning Tides: Addressing This with Qasim Rashid will cover the 2024 election and current societal issues plaguing America, as well as the rest of the world. Qasim is an author, human rights lawyer, political activist, and father.

Qasim Rashid on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/15vkhFATEG/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Qasim Rashid on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qasimrashid?igsh=MWl5eGZvMHRxdTI3aA==

Qasim Rashid on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@qasimrashid?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Qasim Rashid’s Website: https://www.qasimrashid.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYoLSDyj72f6DL_oNBzEYYpI1SCHEMWbuLQUhiNOdW8xAyihPBVtobMsdk_aem_Abk91yyHdBiUAYHl5Nf-iQ

Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid-podcast/id1767236971

Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tT5kTQJJKNTkDBCR9eVML?si=hNJbATpMQF6MlVly32DUIQ

Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid on Listen Notes: https://lnns.co/KMaXhP5qS24

Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/xh53k-31ec72/Let%27s-Address-This-with-Qasim-Rashid-Podcast

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array.

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcast

Bluesky/Mastodon: @turningtidespod

Email: [email protected]

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Email: [email protected]

There and Back Again: The Election of 1912 is an interview I took part in on Jerry Landry's podcast, Presidencies of the United States. We're excited to share this episode with the Turning Tides audience as well! Throughout this installment, Jerry and I discuss the 1912 presidential election and its lasting effects on American democracy that are apparent well into today.

Presidencies of the US Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presidencies?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Presidencies of the US Instagram: https://instagram.com/presidenciespodcast?igshid=MTIzZWMxMTBkOA==

Presidencies of the US Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/presidencies

Presidencies of the US Website: https://www.presidenciespodcast.com

Presidencies of the US Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/presidencies-of-the-united-states/id1191633316

Presidencies of the US Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZRBiyuvyC4J5oAguxVqh0?si=EMs9hpo2RH65vqz_uelaOg

Presidencies of the US Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9c077e71-ba5e-4f2b-8aec-5cb9f8c871d4/presidencies-of-the-united-states?ref=dm_sh_hNXnixseZjlRN6Pv1PA94FLTl

Presidencies of the US Listen Notes: https://lnns.co/MYmkobzJDN1

Presidencies of the US iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-presidencies-of-the-united-31007979?cmp=ios_share&sc=ios_social_share&pr=false&autoplay=true

If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!

Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array.

Website: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/

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Email: [email protected]