All posts tagged "History"
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Yale’s Dr. Carlos Eire on Saints, Martyrs and Self-Defense [podcast]
Yale’s Dr. Carlos Eire talks Christian history, martyrdom, pacifism verses self-defense and more. To hear on Spotify, click here!
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American History Homework III: More Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers argued on why the Articles of Confederation needed to be ditched for the United States Constitution. On this episode we learn...
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American History Homework II: Articles of Confederation vs US Constitution
Before the United States Constitution, Americans lived under the government of the Articles of Confederation. So why the overhaul? This episode tries to explain the...
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Reformations VI with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
We’re back with another installment of our talk with Reformation scholar Carlos Eire. This time we discuss the joys of historical research and discovery, the...
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The 1910’s verses the 1920’s with Dr. David Krugler [podcast]
The 1920’s were a time marked by new and more affordable technology, massive economic growth, a renewed push for civil rights and relative peace, its...
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Reformations V with Dr. Carlos Eire
We’re going back to Europe, specifically France and Switzerland, and five hundred ago on top of that. Serving as our tour guide is once again...
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American History Homework I – Pushing the Colonists Toward Revolution [podcast]
America’s separation from Britain is often over simplified by both those with enthusiastic and cynical motivations. But the years leading up to July 4th, 1776...
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Reformations IV with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
Welcome to part four of our conversation with Dr. Carlos Eire, historian, Yale Professor and author of Reformations, a history of the reformation era of...
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Henry Clay with Dr. Jason Stevens [podcast]
Henry Clay was an American statesman of the 1800’s that was so vital to the survival of the Republic that it was assumed by many...
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Reformations III with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
Dr. Carlos Eire is back at the Woodpile to talk about cooperation between church and state in governing, the government helping the ‘deserving’ poor, Charles...
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Reformations II with Dr. Carlos Eire
We’re back with another conversation about the Reformation with Dr. Carlos Eire, who not only teaches this time period at Yale University but wrote a...
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Reformations I with Dr. Carlos Eire [podcast]
Five hundred years ago a guy nailed a sheet a paper with a litany of gripes on it, which changed world civilization in dramatic ways...
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Making Freedom with Professor R.J.M. Blackett
R.J.M. Blackett professor of history at Vanderbilt University and a historian of the abolitionist movement in the US. He’s written several books including Building an...
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Sports In the 1980s! [podcast]
We’re back in the 1980s talking baseball, football, soccer, karate and one family’s escape from communist Vietnam. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
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Faith, Governance and History [podcast]
Law and Liberty‘s Brian Smith joins us to talk about religion, government, history, objectivism and integralism, how they can get along and how they often...
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The Real and Imagined Indiana Jones – A selective history of archaeologist adventurers
German businessman Heinrich Schliemann was so obsessed by the epics of Homer that he read 100 hexagrams of the Iliad at his second wedding (not...
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The Jeju Island of Sea Women with Lisa See [podcast]
Author Lisa See comes Back By the Woodpile to give us a history lesson on the Korean Jeju Island, the Haenyeo women divers and how...
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Adventures in Genealogy Research with Taneya Koonce [podcast]
Taneya Koonce comes on the podcast to talk about her adventures in genealogy. We’ll talk about shaking stories out of the family tree, the challenges...
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Jose Marti, Jewish Cuba and the Cuban Study Institute [podcast]
Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the Cuban Study Institute comes Back By the Woodpile to talk Jose Marti, Eduardo Chibás, Jewish-Cuban History, the current state of Cubans...
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Haitian History Lesson [podcast]
Haitian history is what we’re learning all about on this episode and the Haitian Heritage Museum‘s Eveline Pierre is our professor! Join us as we talk...
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Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir [podcast]
Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir reflects on his life in Cuba before Castro, his work in the underground while the Communists ruled the country,...
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Old Timey Shanghai Pop III [podcast]
The final installment of our exploration of the old Shanghai pop music from the 1930’s and 40’s. This time Laszlo Montgomery of the China History...
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Talking Art Theory and History with Ricardo Pau-Llosa! [podcast]
Poet, writer, professor, art collector and critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa comes Back By the Woodpile to talk all these things and more! To hear on Stitcher,...
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Old Timey Shanghai Pop Music [podcast]
Laszlo Montgomery of the China History Podcast comes Back By the Woodpile to talk the music scene of 1930’s and 40’s Shanghai. Li Jinhui, The...
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April 19th, 1775 II [podcast]
The exciting conclusion of the events that set off the American Revolutionary War, in addition to some insight into life around the Lexington Tourist Center...
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April 19th, 1775 I [podcast]
The events of April 18th and 19th 1775 around the Boston, Massachusetts area set off events that would shake the world order and enshrine the concepts of...
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Riding Around Jamaica Plain [podcast]
Jamaica Plain is a unique little neighbor of Boston where some major American Revolutionary action went down, national politicians were (and still are) knighted at...
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The Frederick Douglass House [podcast]
Fredrick Douglass was a runaway slave, writer, preacher, abolitionist leader, accomplished violinist and eventual advisor and friend to President Abraham Lincoln. For this episode of...
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Digging Thru the Chinese Cushions II [podcast]
Snapshots into the lives of ordinary Chinese folk, ranging from doctors to students to the spiritually minded.
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Oh, Behave: The Warmonger Who Shagged Me
In a world filled with war, our greatest weapon is love. Lynx is encouraging us to Make Love. Not War. With new Lynx Peace. See...
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