History Fix
In each episode of History Fix, I discuss lesser known stories from history that you won't be able to stop thinking about. Need your history fix? You've come to the right place.
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Podcasting since 2023 • 92 episodes
History Fix
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Ep. 83 Historical Hauntings: How Characters Throughout History Have Reappeared From the Afterlife
This week, I'll examine several cases of historical hauntings. These are ghost stories where you actually get to find out the single most important question... who was that? We'll go all the way back to ancient Babylon, cruise through ancient G...
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Episode 83
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43:34
Ep. 82 Mary Shelley: How the Mind Behind Frankenstein Pushed All the Boundaries
Mary Shelley was just 18 years old when the idea for Frankenstein struck her on a rainy night in Geneva, Switzerland. Cooped up on vacation with nonstop rain, famous poet Lord Byron had challenged the group of literary geniuses to come up with ...
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Episode 82
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44:31
Ep. 81 Columbus Part 2: How a Villain Was Twisted Into America's Greatest Hero
This is part 2 of last week's episode on Christopher Columbus. This week, you'll learn about Columbus' disastrous third voyage to the Americas when he finally pays the price for governing like a power hungry tyrant. And yet consequences, of cou...
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Episode 81
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26:37
Ep. 80 Columbus Part 1: How a Villain Was Twisted Into America's Greatest Hero
Few humans in history have sent out more shockwaves than Christopher Columbus. His four voyages to the Americas changed our whole existence, culturally, spiritually, ethnically, economically, politically, geographically, morally possibly more t...
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Episode 80
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34:59
Ep. 79 Lucrezia Borgia: How History May Have Cast This Infamous Daughter All Wrong
Before Henry VIII, before Louis XVI, there was a dynasty in Italy so corrupt, so scandalous, gluttonous, hedonistic, that the others don’t even compare. But this was not a royal family. These were not kings, they were popes, cardinals, bishops....
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Episode 79
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37:28