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 • 101 episodes
History Fix
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Ep. 92 First Flight: How the Wright Brothers Changed the World Forever
Just in time for the 121st anniversary on Tuesday, I bring to you the story of two brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, who changed the world forever with their groundbreaking first flight on December 17th, 1903. Though it lasted just...
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Episode 92
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Ep. 91 Révolution Part 2: What the French Revolution Can Still Teach Us Today
I'll pick up where I left off last week, with the storming of the Bastille and the fall of the "ancien regime." We'll explore how, over the next few years, this new France will become more of a hellscape than a paradise. As a radical group, the...
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Episode 91
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Ep. 90 Révolution Part 1: What the French Revolution Can Still Teach Us Today
This week I discuss the events leading up to the outbreak of the French Revolution during the summer of 1789. You'll learn how Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette came to find themselves on the French throne at a time when the system, that had worke...
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Episode 90
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Ep. 89 John Billington: How "America's First Murderer" Attended the First Thanksgiving
On November 11, 1620, forty-one men aboard the ship the Mayflower signed a document of great importance. With their signatures they vowed to create fair and just laws and to work together for the good of the Plymouth colony. This document, the ...
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Episode 89
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Ep. 88 Sacagawea: How Lewis and Clark's Indigenous Guide Did So Much More Than That
It’s the greatest adventure story ever told, Lewis and Clark’s daring pursuit to cross thousands of miles of rugged terrain, to explore the rest of the continent, to finally reach the Pacific Ocean, gaze out over its vast expanse, with their fa...
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Episode 88
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