How do you talk about a movement without clear leaders? By breaking down its different levels. Plus, a look at…
Did Elizabeth Bathory really bathe in virgins’ blood? This Halloween season, let Isaac and Demetria ruin your fun as we explain why the sexy, bloody story you’ve heard about the Bloody Countess is sadder, weirder, and more dependant on 16th-century Hungarian laws about serfs than you thought.
This week, we’re starting a look at the Jiyu Minken Undo — the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement — by…
This week: the battle against the construction of a new international airport in Chiba prefecture. Who fought against the airport,…
This week, the crew of the Breskens is freed at last. Plus some final thoughts on Tokugawa diplomacy. Sources Hesselink,…
The Breskens crew arrive in Edo, with the question of how they are to be treated looming over them. At…
Isaac and Demetria go back in time to answer the age-old question: if Socrates was such a great philosopher, why couldn’t he figure out not to drink all that poison? That plus long digressions about the nature of democracy and medieval theology (of course)!
This week, we’re taking a look at the foreign policy of Edo Japan by starting a deep dive into a…
This week, we’ll cover the end of USCAR and the legacies of 27 years of foreign rule over Okinawa Prefecture.…
Grab your tommy guns and fedoras as we make our way to Chicago to cover the meteoric rise (and equally meteoric fall) of one of America’s most famous gangsters, Al Capone!