A request from Jillian Waun of Jacksonville, North Carolina.
HP72 – Grace O’Malley.mp3 9:04 – 8.6MB
Sources:
Sally Driscoll of Great Neck Publishing.
Barbara Sjoholm of The Los Angeles Times
Books:
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas
The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O’Malley, Irish Pirate
The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the largest armed uprisings in American history. From August to September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, more than 10,000 coal miners confronted state and federal troops in an effort to unionize the West Virginia mines. It was the final act in a series of violent clashes that have been termed the Red Neck War, from the colour of neckscarves worn by the miners.
HP71 – Battle of Blairmountain.mp3 24:24 – 22.5MB
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Stand Watie (12 December 1806-9 September 1871) (also known as Degataga “standing together as one,” or “stand firm” and Isaac S. Watie) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the American Indian cavalry made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole.
HP70 – Stand Waite.mp3 7:45 – 7.28MB
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William Wallace was a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English occupation of Scotland during significant periods of the Wars of Scottish Independence. William was the inspiration for the historical novel The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie written by the 15th century minstrel Blind Harry. This work is more of a novel than a biography and is responsible for much of the legend encompassing the history of William Wallace.
HP69 – William Wallace.mp3 4:14 – 4.06MB
Links:
William Wallace BBC History: Wars of Independence
Books:
In the Footsteps of William Wallace
The Great Hinckley Fire was a major conflagration that burned an area of more than 400 square miles (1000 km²), killing 418 to 459 people in the process. The fire occurred on September 1, 1894 and was centered at Hinckley, Minnesota. After a two-month drought, several fires started in the pine forests of Pine County, Minnesota. The main contributor to the fire was apparently the then-common method of lumber harvesting, which involved stripping trees of their branches, littering the ground with such detritus. Another contributing factor was a temperature inversion that trapped the gases from the fires, the fires developed into a firestorm, with flames reaching over four miles (6 km) high and temperatures reaching 1000 degrees Fahrenheit (550 °C). Some people were able to escape by climbing into wells, or by reaching a nearby pond or the Grindstone River. Others escaped by jumping onto two crowded trains that were able to get out of town. James Root, an engineer on a train heading south from Duluth, was able to rescue nearly 300 people by backing a train up nearly five miles to Skunk Lake, where people could escape the fire.
HP68 – Hinckley Fire.mp3 7:35 – 7.13MB
Source: City of Hinckley, Minnesota
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This a a request from the history hotline. John Brown was a militant American Abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Va., in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War (1861 – 65).
HP67 – John Brown 4:48 – 4.57MB
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Hope you all enjoy this podcast that was recorded while I was in Georgia. Let me know what you think by calling the history hotline or emailing me. Thanks!
HP66 – Kennesaw.mp3 21:40 – 20.1MB
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This is the last podcast for the next two weeks. I will speak to you all when I return. In the meantime I hope you all enjoy this guest podcast from Tom Barker.
HP65 – Mongol Invasion.mp3 5:55 – 5.6MB
Sources:
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey (Paperback)
The Koryo-Mongol Allied Invasion of Japan – The Myth of Kamikaze
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This one is a request from the history hotline. Jomo Kenyatta born 1894 in Ichaweri, British East Africa. African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister and then president of independent Kenya.
HP64 – Jomo Kenyatta.mp3 10:55 – 10.1MB
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
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The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as “The Rape of Nanjing”, refers to the most infamous of the war crimes committed by the Japanese military during World War II—acts carried out by Japanese troops in and around Nanjing, China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the period of carnage lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.
During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, a large number of innocent men were wrongfully identified as enemy combatants and killed. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread.
The extent of the atrocities is hotly debated, with numbers ranging from the claim of the Japanese army at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that the death toll was military in nature and that no such atrocities ever occurred, to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300,000. The West has generally tended to adopt the Chinese point-of-view, with many Western sources now quoting 300,000 dead. This is in no small part due to the commercial success of Iris Chang’s “The Rape of Nanjing”, which set the stage for the debate of the issue in the West; and the existence of extensive photographic records of the mutilated bodies of women and children.
The massacre is a major focal point of burgeoning Chinese nationalism, and in China, opinions are relatively homogenous. In Japan, however, public opinion over the severity of the massacre remains divided. The event continues to be a point of contention in Sino-Japanese relations.
HistoryPodcast 63 – Rape Of Nanjing.mp3 13:00 – 12MB
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Books:
Modern Japan: A Historical Survey
Revolution and Its Past : Indentities and Change in Modern Chinese History (2nd Edition)
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