Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

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Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

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Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks

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Summary of Keith Thomson's Born to Be Hanged

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Lost Cities of the Ancient World

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Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise

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Red Wave

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Bones of Contention: Kennewick Man

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Inside Out: The Extraordinary Legacy of April Ashley

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The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

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Wars of the Roses

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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America

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The Insurrection in Dublin

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Vietnam: A War Lost and Won

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The Watter's Mou'

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On a Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic

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A New Dawn

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Strength and Honor

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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes: Powerful Eye-witness Accounts of The Battle for Normandy 1944

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The Last Great Saxon Earls

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Edward II

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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) (Unabridged)

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The Man in the Red Coat

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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

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The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington

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A Man Most Driven

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Traits and Stories of the Hugenots (Unabridged)

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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

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The Wild West: History, myth & the making of America

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The Flaming Jewel

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Book of Five Rings

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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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The Secret History of the World

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Story of Art Without Men

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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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On Palestine

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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The Hero

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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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The Heretic's Handbook

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries

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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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Summary: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Scott Reynolds Nelson, "Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World" (Basic Books, 2022): An interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson

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Antisemitism in Medieval Europe: How did Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe lay the foundation for modern antisemitism?

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The Burning of Black Tulsa: This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs. In the early 20th century, Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was an epicenter of Black economic influence in the United States. However, in the early hours of June 1, 1921, a white mob — sanctioned by the Tulsa police — swept through the community burning and looting homes and businesses, and killing residents. A century later, the question before Congress, the courts and the United States as a whole is: What would justice look like? Guest: Brent Staples, a member of the New York Times editorial board.

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71. Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War: Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk, over the next 12 days Al and James are reading you extracts from some of their favourite books about the war. Today, James is reading from The Unwomanly Face of War, by Svetlana Alexievich.

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The Gunpowder Plot Part 1- Context: It’s no small feat to tackle the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It was an attempt by radical Catholic conspirators to assassinate King James I, and to destroy parliament in one devastating explosion, with Guy Fawkes lighting the fuse. But this two-part...

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My Chat with Theoretical Physicist Dr. Lawrence Krauss (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_531): Topics covered include The Edge of Knowledge (his forthcoming book on time, space, matter, life, and consciousness), science as a form of play, humor, Richard Feynman, Noam Chomsky, the hierarchy of the sciences (Auguste Comte), the natural versus so...

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Episode 51 - Desperate Rogues: The summer of 1682 was a busy season for the pira…

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Empress Dowager Cixi: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.

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Food in the Ancient World: When we think of the modern Mediterranean, delicious and vibrant food is one of the first things that come to mind. But how much has the regional food changed over the last two millennia?

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**Special Guest Episode on Classics and Race/Ethnicity w/Rebecca Futo Kennedy**: In this special guest episode, Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy and I have a lively discussion about race, ethnicity, immigration, and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean in the first hour. Along the way we point out many of the misconceptions that...

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3: Rome's Got Talent: Meet a child prodigy who recited his poetry for the Emperor and the raucous Roman crowds.

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Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard: The title of Ceasar has echoed down the ages as the pinnacle of absolute power & even tyranny. Dan is joined by the classicist Mary Beard to explore the history of the first twelve Ceasars, how they have been portrayed & how powerful they reall...

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Episode 112: Mount St. Helens Volcano Eruption Anniversary: On May 18, 1980, Mount St Helen’s which is located about 100 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Check back soon for show notes.

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Episode 85 - John Wilkes Booth: A Discussion With 'The Art Of Crime': A discussion with Gavin Whitehead on the assassination of Lincoln and more

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A.C. Grayling - The God Argument: Host: Chris Mooney Remember all the greatest hits of religious apologists—the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence? You may have learned how to refute them in college—but not, perhaps, with the zest and...

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Supplemental: Matthew Lewis - The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: On March 3 and 4 Tudorholics from all around the world gathered online for the second Tudor Summit, where we gathered together some of the brightest historians, bloggers, and podcasters. Over the next few weeks I'll be releasing the audio of those...

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Alexander the Great’s Corpse and the Greatest Heist in History: Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals and empire builders in history, but the story of his death is almost as remarkable as his life. Tristan Hughes joins Dan to tell the almost unbelievable tale of what happened after Alexander died.

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Episode 14 - The Emperor Justin: We restart the narrative with the death of the Emperor Anastasius and the accession of Justin, Count of the Excubitors. The new Emperor is decidedly orthodox and begins a persecution of the monophysites and heals the schism with Rome. We also introduce...

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The mechanical galleon: Neil Macgregor with a clockwork galleon designed for a grand dinner table.

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Finding Emilie: This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again. Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London, and the movie The Fifth Element. EPISODE CITATIONS - Exhibitions: Emilie L. Gossiaux - Other-Worlding (https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worlding/) at the Queen’s County Museum, through April, 7th, 2024.   Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show.

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2: The Vengeance of Turia: Meet Turia, a young woman fighting for her family in the chaos of a brutal civil war.

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What Happened to Tom Thomson?: On the morning of the 8th of July 1917, thirty-nine-year-old Tom Thomson, a renowned Canadian painter and skilled outdoorsman, set off well-supplied for a day-long fishing excursion in his canoe on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Whitney, Ontario. A canoe, later identified as Thomson’s, was found floating upside down in the lake later on the same day. When Tom did not return from his fishing trip the next day, his friends became concerned. Eight days after Thomson first set out, Dr. G. W. (Goldwyn) Howland, a cottager from Toronto, spotted Tom’s bloated and decomposed body floating in the lake. An examination of Thomson’s body uncovered a large bruise on the right side of his head, and blood had come out of his right ear. Thomson’s death was quickly ruled an accident, and no police investigation occurred. Thomson was laid to rest in Mowat Cemetery near Canoe Lake, where he’d died. However, Thomson’s older brother George demanded the body be exh

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Books about books for the #PBNread2021!: Ticking off another task on the Professional Book Nerds 2021 Reading Challenge

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Episode 110: “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe: On this special Halloween episode of The Literary Life, Angelina (Harriet Vane), Cindy (Professor MacGonagall), and Thomas (Lord Peter Wimsey), talk about Edgar Allan Poe’s tale, “The Masque of the Red Death.” If you are a Patron, you can watch...

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Context Clues: Televangelists

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How Earth Came Alive! With Ferris Jabr: Jabr will draw on the work in his new book Becoming Earth, which delves into the hidden workings of our planet and its many lifeforms and invites us to reexamine our place in it. What we do next will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come . . .

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Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World

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Bev Vincent on Creating the Ultimate Stephen King Companion

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The Whistleblower: Meet the savvy political operator who cleaned up Britain after Boudicca's revolt.

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Ep 32: Barry S. Strauss on Actium: Barry Strauss, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, joins the show to talk about Octavian, Antony, and Cleopatra, and the battle of Actium, the clash that “made the Roman Empire”.