This Italian family’s secret recipe requires a special ingredient: a fatal dose of arsenic. Join us for a story of murder most foul, corrupt priests, saleswomen with pockets full of poison, secret cabal of witches moving through European courts, a ceiling alligator, and Santa Claus’s special bone juice.
This week, we’re talking about Christianity during the Bakumatsu Period — the era that saw the forced opening of Japan…
This week, we’re turning our attention to Christianity in Japan after the “Christian Century.” Despite its status as a minority…
Did an ancient Greek party girl get off on a capital charge because she flashed the judge? Or was this story just an excuse for artists to get away with painting bare breasts? This week, we dig into trial records, archeological evidence, and ancient gossip to try to get a sense of the woman behind one of history’s spiciest trials.
This week, we cover the short yet fascinating history of Islam in Japan. What factors led to a connection between…
This week, we wrap up the series with a look at black history during the Occupation and Postwar eras, with…
We’re heading back to the wild west to meet one of America’s smoothest criminals. Let Charles “Doc” Baggs teach you the art of stealing from the rich, giving great speeches, and staying one step ahead of the law. What do we learn when we listen to a criminal telling his side of the story? Who shaped our understanding of the moral landscape of the American west? How cool is this dude, seriously?
This week, we turn our attention to the black experience during the war in the Pacific, and to the fascinating…
This week, we’re talking about political and cultural exchange between black communities and Japan in the 20s and 30s, as…
You’ve heard of Rosa Parks—but do you actually know the full story? This week, we dig into the brutal history of segregation in the United States, the difficult work of activism, and the way black civil rights leaders’ stories are taught as part of a whitewashed narrative that minimizes their agency and fails to engage with their actual political views.