Latest Historium Podcast Episodes
#78 The Blowout
Historium - March 18, 2024 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThe story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports. Music: - Reckless by Brocker Way - Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma - Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi - Classic Battle by Sam Spence - Denmark by Portland Cello Project - Independant by Brocker Way - ...
[UNLOCKED] Bonus Episode #30: The Day Disco Died
Historium - July 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratings(This is an unlocked Patreon bonus episode. For more bonus episodes, check out www.patreon.com/historium) Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that… When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter st...
Historium Presents: The Wind
Historium - May 11, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsAn episode from a show I love called The Wind. "Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do." For more episodes: https://thewind.org/ For our bonus episode with Fil: patreon.com/historium Support the show
#77 ATOMIC DAWN - The Red Menace: The Cold War and the Trial of Robert Oppenheimer
Historium - March 27, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsNeils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program. Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.subs...
#76 ATOMIC DAWN - Heavy Water: The Norwegian Commando Mission to Sabotage the Nazi Nuclear Program
Historium - March 20, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsNorwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg. Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/ Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, J...
#75 ATOMIC DAWN - A Prime Suspect: Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the Investigation of a Soviet Atomic Spy Ring
Historium - March 13, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsRobert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at a secret research facility in Los Alamos. Meanwhile, counterintelligence seeks to unearth a secret communist spy ring within the very heart of the nuclear weapons program. A cold war starts before a world war ends. Original music for this series...
#74 ATOMIC DAWN - Complementarity and Uncertainty: Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Historium - March 06, 2023 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsOn the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins... Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/ Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioul...
#73 Once in a Lifetime
Historium - November 24, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThe story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty. For more bonus episodes: patreon.com/historiu...
#72: The Trial of Sunshine Charlie
Historium - October 24, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsSummer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of...
#71 Operation Eureka
Historium - July 25, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsTehran 1943. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet together for the first time with hopes of overcoming their ideological differences in order to win the Second World War. For bonus episodes: patreon.com/historium Music: Nightbook by Ludovico Einauldi Vangu...
#70 Mendacium Ex Machina
Historium - April 18, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn the late 1700s, a chess-playing automaton marched across Europe, achieving checkmates against novices and masters alike–all while hiding an incredible secret… Music: - Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings by Siefried Behrend & DZO Chamber Orchestra - Clockwork Toccata, Op. 68 by Fulvio Ca...
#7 The Christmas Truce (Shiny & Chrome Edition)
Historium - December 24, 2021 19:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThis episode was always a feel-good fan favorite, so I decided to pluck it from the archives, rewrite it, re-record it, and remix it now that I'm a better writer with better equipment. Merry Christmas! 'During the first Christmas of the First World War, troops from opposing armies defied orders...
#69 The Great Race of Mercy
Historium - December 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn 1925, dog sled teams faced extreme subzero temperatures, whiteout conditions, and hurricane-force winds to deliver medicine to sick children in the remote mining town of Nome, Alaska. This feat of interspecies heroism would become one of the most harrowing rescue attempts in American history....
#68 The Fifth Beatle
Historium - August 24, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn early 1964, on the eve of The Beatles’ first international tour, Ringo Starr fell ill. To avoid cancelling the shows at the height of Beatlemania, they hired Jimmie Nicol as a temporary replacement. The stand-in drummer serves as a case study in what happens to a human psyche when propelled f...
#67 The Andean Gambit
Historium - June 21, 2021 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsAfter Columbus opened Pandora’s Box by crossing the Atlantic, conquistadors ventured into the New World for god, glory, and gold; rarely in that order. One of these conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro, could not ignore the rumors of an empire of golden cities in the cloud peaks of the Andes, which ...
#66 Microstorium
Historium - December 23, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsAs the final episode of this wild year called 2020, here's fifteen quick mini-stories from throughout history! Support the show
[UNLOCKED] Book Review of ‘1491’ by Charles C. Mann
Historium - November 26, 2020 02:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratings(This is an unlocked Patreon bonus episode. For more bonus episodes, check out www.patreon.com/historium) Lots of myth busting of misconceptions about indigenous people coupled with new research that shines a light of what the New World and its inhabitants were actually like. Support the show
[BONUS] Book Review of ‘1491’ by Charles C. Mann
Historium - November 26, 2020 02:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsLots of myth busting of misconceptions about indigenous people coupled with new research that shines a light of what the New World and its inhabitants were actually like.Support the show www.patreon.com/historium
#65 Firebombing of Tokyo
Historium - October 28, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsHow do we Americans remember the deadliest night in human history? The answer is simple. We don't. Support the show
#64 Marathon of Madness
Historium - September 23, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThis is the story of the strangest race ever run. Support the show
#63 The Dividing Line
Historium - July 16, 2020 18:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn 1919, rage from injustices erupted into violent race riots which spread throughout Chicago. All the while, Spanish Flu spread like wildfire in this unfortunately relevant story about the Chicago Race Riots. Support the show
#62 Side By Side
Historium - June 18, 2020 00:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThe story of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, who worked in freak shows, owned a plantation, and experienced so much of 19th century, all while literally inseparable. Support the show
#61 Dirtbag Gold Rush
Historium - May 07, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a rag-tag group of rock climbers in the 1970s stumble upon the score of a lifetime. Support the show
#60 Plague of Corrupted Blood
Historium - April 07, 2020 19:25 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsThe story of the Corrupted Blood plague that hit the realm of World of Warcraft and what outbreaks in video games can teach us about real-world epidemiology. Support the show
#59 The Siege of Seeds
Historium - March 23, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn the midst of the siege of Leningrad, a small enclave of Soviet scientists did what they could to protect a massive collection of seeds in order to save countless future human lives. Support the show
#58 The Battle of Los Angeles
Historium - January 23, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn 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... Support the show
#57 A White Christmas in Saigon
Historium - December 24, 2019 00:24 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsSaigon, Vietnam. April 1975. Support the show
#56 Savior of Mothers
Historium - December 16, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsChildbed 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. Support the show
#55 Death Row Baseball
Historium - November 21, 2019 20:47 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsBaseball has long been dubbed America’s pastime, but would that change if players had to literally play for their lives? Support the show
#54 The Second Son of God
Historium - October 24, 2019 13:47 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 399 ratingsIn the 1850s, a Christian cult rattles imperial China to its core... Support the show
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