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The Story of Bass Reeves - the real Lone Ranger? (a special episode for Clara Kimmel)
Real Cool History for Kids - March 11, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #123: The Story of Bass Reeves - the real Lone Ranger? (a special episode for Clara Kimmel) Want a birthday shout-out? Join the club! Want access to membership level content for each episode (starting with Episode 123)? Join our Patreon platform! Go HERE to find out about the cha...
Episode 171: The Avignon Papacy. With Joelle Rollo-Koster
Well That Aged Well - March 07, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at the Avignon Papcy. You probably thought that The Pope have always recided in Rome right? Right? Well what if I told you that for almotst half a century the Popes were cited in The city of Avignon in Provence, in modern days France? This week we take a look at the Pap...
Episode 137: The Metamorphosis Part II
Reflecting History - March 04, 2024 09:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsTraveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human nature, identity, change, the nature of kindness, and more. Does the mundane and...
Episode 170: The St. Domingue Uprising
Well That Aged Well - February 29, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at The St. Domingue uprising. From the history of how Haiti came to be under French Colonial rule to the Rise of the Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture, and his rise and fall, and the legacy of the St. Domingue revolution. All this, and more on "Well That Aged Well. Wi...
Episode 170: The St. Domingue Uprising. With Alyssa Sepinwall
Well That Aged Well - February 29, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at The St. Domingue uprising. From the history of how Haiti came to be under French Colonial rule to the Rise of the Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture, and his rise and fall, and the legacy of the St. Domingue revolution. All this, and more on "Well That Aged Well. Wi...
The Story of Ruth (a special episode for Lileigh Boggs)
Real Cool History for Kids - February 26, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #122: The Story of Ruth (a special episode for Lileigh Boggs) Want a birthday shout-out? Join the club! Go HERE to find out about the changes coming. ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF ANGELA'S BRAND NEW BOOK: COURAGEOUS IDENTITY-TEEN EDITION! CHECK IT OUT HERE. Have an idea for an epi...
Episode 169: The Crimes Of Stalin. With Joshua Rubenstein
Well That Aged Well - February 22, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at The USSR Under The Stalin Regime, and we take a look at the crimes comitted under Joseph Stalin. From how he rose to power to the Colectivization of Russia, to the Holodomor, the Great Purge, And how The NKVD brought innocent people into the Gulag system to his death...
Episode 168: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. With Bryan Ward-Perkins
Well That Aged Well - February 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We are taking a look at The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. We will have a look at what factors brought the Roman Empire to an end. From the christianization of The Empire, and Constantines move to Constantinople, to the external, and internal factors of why and how the Western ...
The Story of Robin Hood (a special episode for Isaiah and Benjamin Falmagne)
Real Cool History for Kids - February 12, 2024 11:01 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #121: The Story of Robin Hood (a special episode for Isaiah and Benjamin Falmagne) Want a birthday shout-out? Join the club! Go HERE to find out about the changes coming. This episode is made possible by the The World's Story 2 written by Angela O’Dell and published by Master Boo...
Episode 136: The Metamorphosis Part I
Reflecting History - February 12, 2024 09:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsTraveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human nature, identity, change, the nature of kindness, and more. Does the mundane and...
Episode 167: Wilhelm II. The Last Kaiser. With Roger Chickering
Well That Aged Well - February 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at Germanys last Kasier Wilhelm II. From his upbringing, and his relationship with his family to the Ottoman-German alliance and To World War 1 which would lead to his eventual abdication, and how his life would be viewed forever after. All this and more this week on "W...
Episode 166: The Dissolution of the monasteries. With James Clark
Well That Aged Well - February 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week we take a look at Tudor England. Under the reign of King Henry VIII, and Thomas Cromwell a significant event happened that would lead to the dissolving of the monasteries. But why did it happen? Was it for the reasons we thought they were disolved? And how does this compare to the diso...
Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield (a special episode for Eva Duer)
Real Cool History for Kids - January 29, 2024 05:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #120: Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield (a special episode for Eva Duer) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! Go HERE to find out about the changes coming. This episode is made possible by the America's Story Vol 2,...
Episode 165: D-DAY. With Kurt Piehler
Well That Aged Well - January 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHIS WEEK! We take a look at the battle that would turn the tide of The Second World War around. The famous D-DAY, and the liberation of Paris. From the planning of Operation Overlord, to the GI`s who participated in this historical event to the liberation in Paris and Charles Degauls famous spe...
Episode 135: Fire and Blood
Reflecting History - January 22, 2024 09:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhile not being the book many fans wanted (and still haven’t gotten…), George R.R. Martin’s 2018 “Fire and Blood”, a fictional history prequel to "A Game of Thrones" is worthy of historical examination in its own right. Aside from being a lesson to historians in how to write entertaining, captiv...
Episode 164: Charles I. The White King. With Mark Turnbull
Well That Aged Well - January 18, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this weeks episode we take a look at the Stuart king Charles I. From his upbringing in Scottland to his journey, to London. His trarvel to Spain to meet the infanta Maria Anna, and his marriage to Henrietta Maria, and his friendship with Buckingham. And was Oliver Cromwell the villain history...
Stonewall Jackson and William T. Sherman (a special episode for Lucy Fancis)
Real Cool History for Kids - January 15, 2024 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #119: Stonewall Jackson and William T. Sherman (a special episode for Lucy Fancis) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! This episode is made possible by the America's Story Vol 2, written by Angela O’Dell and published by Ma...
Episode 163: The French Revolution. With Peter Mcphee
Well That Aged Well - January 11, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week we take a look at The French Revolution. From Talleryand, and Laffayete to the state of France in the late 1780s to the diamond neckless afair, and what the causes of the revolution were and how it came to occur. And was it a social or a poltiical revoloution? Find out this week on "We...
Episode 162: Michael Bonner Returns: How Tyrants shape history in their image
Well That Aged Well - January 04, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode we talk about how rulers and chronicles use history to justify their rights to rule. NOT everyone we speak about in this episode are tyrants, but those we talk about in this episode have all used history in one way or another to justify their claim to rule their kingdoms. We take...
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author and Abolitionist (a special episode for Ben Richmond)
Real Cool History for Kids - January 01, 2024 17:58 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #118: Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author and Abolitionist (a special episode for Ben Richmond) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! This episode is made possible by the America's Story Vol 2, written by Angela O’Dell and publis...
BONUS: The Library of Babel
Reflecting History - January 01, 2024 09:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsHello everyone, here is a bonus episode from my Patreon feed. Hope you enjoy it. It's been an amazing run for a long time now, so thank you for all the support and appreciation over the years. It means a lot. Hope you have a great year. How do we find meaning in an infinite universe? Is the p...
Episode 161: Christmas Special 4: St. Nicholas. With Adam English
Well That Aged Well - December 21, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week in our anual christmas special, we talk about ST. Nicholas. From his upbringing, to the council of Nicea to his death. His popular saint stories, and how he came to be as we know him as Santa Claus, and of course. Do we have a favorite Santa Claus movie? Find out this week on "Well Tha...
Robert E. Lee, the (real) Man Without a Country (a special episode for Emma Hurley)
Real Cool History for Kids - December 18, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #117: Robert E. Lee, the (real) Man Without a Country (a special episode for Emma Gurley) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! This episode is made possible by the America's Story Vol 2, written by Angela O’Dell and publish...
Episode 160: Louis The Pious. With Thomas Noble
Well That Aged Well - December 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week we take a look at Charlemagnes sucsessor "Louis The Pious". We take a look at some primary sources such as Notker, The Astronomer, who have written about Louis, and discuss their reliability, as well as the life of Louis, and how he was the beginning of the end of Charlemages empire. A...
Episode 134: Roma Part II
Reflecting History - December 11, 2023 09:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis is Part II in a two part series on Alfonso Cuaron's 2018 masterpiece "Roma." This episode covers the second half of the movie and discusses themes of loneliness, isolation, and belonging. It also looks at struggles over land reform in the Mexican countryside, one of the primary instigators ...
Episode 159: The Christianization Of Europe. With Peter Heather
Well That Aged Well - December 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode we take a look at the Christianization of Europe. From What Christianity looked like before the age of Consantine to the aftermath and result of the move of the Roman World to Constantinople to the rise of Islam, the battle of Tours, the christianization of Britain, the Vikings, ...
Civil War Submarines and Hot Air Balloons (a special episode of ro Joey and Caleb Mueller)
Real Cool History for Kids - December 04, 2023 10:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #116: Civil War Submarines and Hot Air Balloons (a special episode of ro Joey and Caleb Mueller) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! Helpful website about the Civil War submarines. This episode is made possible by the A...
Episode 158: Napoleon part 3: The 100 Days. With Alexander Mikaberidze
Well That Aged Well - November 30, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn the 3rd and final part, (for now). We take a look at the 100 days of Napoleon in Power. From what we thought about the recent Napoleon ,movie, to Tsar Alexander Is March on Paris to Napoleons return from Elba to Waterloo and his exile in St. Helena. All this and more on this weeks episode of ...
Episode 157: Napoleon Part 2: The Napoleonic Wars. With Zack White
Well That Aged Well - November 22, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFrom Trafalgar to Austerlitz. This week in te second (of 3 parts), of our mini series on Napoleon we take a look at some of the most famous events under the Napoleonic Wars. We take a look at the disasterous march on Moscow, and how Napoleon worked in the goverment, until the battle of Leipzig. ...
Abraham Lincoln, Leader Extraordinaire (A special episode for Abram Nachtigal)
Real Cool History for Kids - November 20, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsEpisode #115: Abraham Lincoln, Leader Extraordinaire (A special episode for Abram Nachtigal) PLEASE GO HERE to access the Real Cool History Detectives - Exploring the Civil War miniseries! The BEST PLACE to listen to Real Cool History for Kids is at our PODSITE. This episode is made pos...
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