Something a little different tonight I hope you all like it.
HistoryPodcast 48 – The Greatest Stories Never Told.mp3 9:01 – 8.44MB
Links
The Greatest Stories Never Told : 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
This episode is a suggestion from listener Tim Williamson a student at Auburn University. Thank you Tim!
HistoryPodcast 47 – America’s Wickedest City.mp3 21:05 – 19.4MB
Links
Phenix City, AL Official Website
Shelbyville Times-Gazette News: Phenix City Series
The 1955 Movie: The Phenix City Story
Books
The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama
TV Listings
All Times Pacific
History Channel
Sunday 5
10:30-12am Sex in the Bible
Tuesday 7
9-10pm Man, Moment, Machine – Doolittle’s Daring Raid
10-11pm Modern Marvels – Geroge Washington Carver Tech.
Thursday 9
Ancient Marvels – Ancient Discoveries: Heron of Alexandria
History Channel International
Friday 3
9:30-10pm History Viewpoint – What the Romans Did for Us: Life of Luxury
Monday 6
8-8:30pm Almanac – Heavan on Earth: Buddhism.
Discovery Times
Thursday 9
Snap! A History of the Paparazzi
PBS
Monday 6
8pm Jesse James
National Geographic
Tuesday 7
6pm Impossible Island
Todays history podcast is from Bob Wright. Bob will be introducing us to the history of food banks. Thanks Bob!
HistoryPodcast 46 – Food Banks.mp3 15:08 – 14MB
Links:
TV Listings
All Times Pacific
History Channel
Friday 27
8-10pm Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives
Sunday 29
7-8pm Digging for the Truth: The Real Temple of Doom
8-10pm The Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps
Wednesday 1
7-8pm Modern Marvels: Alaskan Pipline
9-10pm Modern Marvels: Oil Tankers
History International Channel
Friday 27
7-8pm History Viewpoint: The Germans we Kept
9-9:30pm What the Victorians Did For Us: Social Progress
9:30-10pm What the Romans Did For Us: Ahead of Their Time
Monday 30
8-8:30pm Almanac: Heaven on Earth: Hinduism
PBS
Monday 30
8pm The Nuremberg Trials
Discovery Channel
Sunday 29
8pm China Event: First Emperor: The Man Who Made China
Discovery Times
Wendesday 1
10pm Unsolved History: Butch and Sundance
National Geographic
Wednesday 1
8pm National Geographic’s Most Amazing Moments
Sandra Day O’Connor has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1981. She was the first woman to serve on the Court. Due to her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively moderate political views, she was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final years on the bench. In 2004, Forbes Magazine called her the fourth most powerful woman in the United States and the sixth most powerful in the world.
HistoryPodcast 45 – Sandra Day O’Connor.mp3 9:36 – 8.9MB
Related Links
Another shorter biography on O’Connor
Related Books
Sandra Day O’Connor : How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
Lazy B : Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest — by Sandra Day O’Connor
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice — by Sandra Day O’Connor
TV Listings
All Times Pacific
History Channel
Monday 23
7-8pm Modern Marvels: Silver Mines
Tuesdays 24
7-8pm Modern Marvels: Diamond Mines
10-11pm Modern Marvels: More of the World’s Biggest Machines
Wednesday 25
7-8pm Modern Marvels: US Mints Money Machines
Thursday 26
8-9pm Ancient Discoveries: Ancient Copmuter?
9-10pm Decoding the Past: Secrect Societies
History Channel International
Friday 20
9-9:30pm History Viewpoint: What the Vicotrians did for us: Crime and Punishment
9:30-10pm History Viewpoint: What the Romans did for us: Edge of the Empire
Tuesday 24
8-9pm History Traveler: The Chunnel
Discovery Channel
Sunday 22
8pm Unsolved History: Beyond the Magic Bullet
10pm Munich: The Real Assassins
Discovery Times
Wednesday 25
8-12pm Moments in Time
National Geographic Channel
Tuesday 24
6pm Seconds From Disaster: Mt. St. Helens Eruption
PBS
Monday 23
9pm John & Abigail Adams
Today on Ben’s 300th birthday we have a very special episode for you. Bob Packett of History According to Bob and Matt Dattilo of Matt’s Today in History.
History Podcast 44 – Ben Franklin’s 300th Birthday.mp3 22:29 – 20.7MB
Related Links
Great gallery of images from the History Channel
Related Books
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)
Benjamin Franklin : Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings (Library of America)
A listener request from Brandon M. Thanks Brandon! Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, was a buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp.
HistoryPodcast 43 – Wyatt Earp.mp3 7:26 – 7MB
Links:
DesertUSA’s biography on Wyatt Earp
Very extensive article on Wikipedia
A Ton of Information about Wyatt Earp
How Wyatt Earp Got Buried in a Jewish Cemetery
Movies
Wyatt Earp (Two-Disc Special Edition) 1994 DVD
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: From Ellsworth to Tombstone DVD
Related Reading
Wyatt Earp : The Life Behind the Legend
The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography
I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp
Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal — by Stuart Lake
Music
TV Listings
All Times Pacific
History Channel
Friday 13th
7-8pm Great Inventions
Saturday 14th
8-9pm The Presidents 1945 – 1977
9-10pm The Presidents 1977 – Present
Sunday 15th
7-8pm Who Killed Martain Luther King Jr.?
Monday 16th
8-11pm Lincoln
Tuesday 17th
8-10pm Ben Franklin
10-11pm Edison Tech
Wednesday 18th
7-8pm Million Dollar Tech
8-9pm The Presidents 1789 – 1825
9-10pm The Presidents 1825 – 1849
Thursday 19th
8-9pm The Presidents 1849 – 1865
9-10pm The Presidents 1865 – 1885
10-11pm Tiananmen Square
Friday 20th
8-9pm The Presidents 1885 – 1913
9-10pm The Presidents 1913 – 1945
History Channel International
Friday 13th
9-9:30pm What The Victorians Did For Us: Rule Makers
Monday 16th
9-10pm Almanac: The Master: Masamune–Samurai Sword Master
Tuesday 17th
8-9pm History Traveler: Monumental Statues
Discovery Channel
Friday 13
8-9pm Mysterious Death of Cleopatra
Tuesday 17
9pm Dirty Jobs: Turkey Farmer
PBS
Monday 16th
8:30pm American Experience
National Geographic
Wednesday 18th
11pm Hidden Pyramids of Peru
Thursday 19th
5pm Crash Test Human
9pm Inside Grand Central
Tom Baker and Nian-Sheng Huang bring us the Father of on of America’s Founding Fathers Josiah Franklin, father of Ben Franklin.
HistoryPodcast 42 – Josiah Franklin.mp3 16:47 – 15.5MB
Links
Music
Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow) were infamous criminals, known as bank robbers, but who far preferred small stores and gas stations to banks to rob, and who traveled the central United States during the Great Depression, often with various members of the Barrow gang.
HistoryPodcast 41 – Bonnie and Clyde.mp3 11:36 – 10.8MB
Related Links
Riding with Bonnie and Clyde by WD Jones
Learn More…
My Life With Bonnie & Clyde — by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
The Strange History of Bonnie and Clyde — by John Treherne
The Family Story of Bonnie and Clyde — by Phillip W. Steele, Marie Barrow Scoma
Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults — by John Neal Phillips
Songs Played this Episode
TV Listings
Sunday 8th
8-10pm Little Ice Age: Big Chill
History Channel International
Firday 6th
7-8pm International Profile: Ivan the Terrible
9-9:30pm History Viewpoint: What the Vicotrians did for us: Playing God
9:30-10pm History Viewpoint: What the Romans did for us: Building Britian
Wednesday 11th
10-11pm History Explorer The Tower: Prisioners
Discovery Channel
Friday 6th
8pm The Sphinx Unmasked
9pm Egypt Untold
8pm and 11pm Lost City of Atlantis
Sunday 8th
8pm Return to Area 51
11pm Crop Circle Mysteries
Discovery Times
Friday 6th
8pm Everest: Death Mountain
Sunday 8th
8pm Real Pirate of the Caribbean: Captain Henry Morgan
National Geogrpahic
Sunday 8th
5pm Madness of Henry the 8th
Monday 9th
7pm Naked Science: Who Built Stonehenge
Tuesday 10th
5pm Mega Structures: Alcatraz
Tom Barker and Scott Corbet introduce us to Wu Ningkun, the first Chinese intellectual to be imprisoned by the People’s Republic of China.
HistoryPodcast 40 – Wu Ningkun.mp3 22:24 – 20.7MB
Related Links:
Christmas is a traditional Christian festival marking the birth of Jesus. Most, although not all, Christians observe this festival on December 25th. However, Christmas is now celebrated as a holiday by many people and cultures besides Christians, and indeed many Christmas traditions originated with pre-Christian observances that were subsumed into Christianity (e.g. Saturnalia, Yule or the Winter Solstice).
In predominantly Christian countries, Christmas has become the most economically significant holiday of the year, and it is also celebrated as a secular holiday in many countries with small Christian populations like Japan. It is largely characterized by gifts being exchanged within families and being brought by Santa Claus, Father Christmas or by other mythical figures. Local and regional Christmas traditions are still rich and varied, despite the widespread influence of American and British Christmas motifs disseminated by globalisation, popular literature, television, and other media.
The word Christmas is a contraction of Christ’s Mass, derived from the Old English Cristes maesse. It is often abbreviated Xmas, the X originates from the Greek letter X (chi) which has often historically been used as an abbreviation for Christ.
HistoryPodcast 39 – Christmas.mp3 22:06 – 20.4MB
Related Links:
Christmas website
A Christmas Carol Podcast From Penguin Books
History of Christmas from History News Network
Related Books:
Inventing Christmas : How Our Holiday Came to Be — by Jock
Elliott
Christmas in America : A History — by Penne L.
Restad
Songs Played this Episode:
Number One Fan – Christmas is here
gidgets ga ga – Christmas Wish
Natalie Brown – Jingle Bells – Public Domain Carol
Geoff Smith – My Own Merry Christmas
Matthew Ebel – Christmas 2004 Live – Walk A Thousand Miles
Jill Parr – Do You Hear What I Hear
TV Listings
Saturday 24
7-8pm History of Christmas
Sunday 25
8-10pm Modern Marvels: DisneyWorld
10-11pm Giganto: The Real King Kong
Tuesday 27
8-10pm Nostradamus 500 Years Later
10-12am Hell: The Devil’s Domain
Thursday 29
Meteors: Fire in the Sky
Friday 23
9:30-10pm History Viewpoint: What the Romans did for us
Sunday 25
8-9pm Line of Fire: Waterloo
Monday 26
7-7:30pm Almanac: History’s Turning Points: The Rise of the Mob
7:30-8pm Almanac: History’s Turning Points: The Television Explosion
8-9pm The worst jobs in history: The Stuarts
Wednesday 28
10:30-11pm History Explorer: What the Tudors did for us: The Applyance of Science
Thursday 29
9-10pm World Justice: Cover Up: Attack on the USS Liberty
PBS
Monday 26
American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad
Discovery Channel
Tuesday 27
10-11pm MythBusters: Confederate Rocket
