From Here to History

De: Chris Swanson & Jason Weidert
  • Sumário

  • History is a story we tell ourselves about the past. We all know that story often shapes our present world but, just as often, our present world shapes how we tell that story. In this show, Chris and Jason discuss events and people of the past with as much openness, understanding, and fairness as we can muster. Our only agenda is to inform in an entertaining and engaging way.

    We teach high school, after all, and that's a tough audience. Our hope is that if we can keep teenagers interested we may be able to pull off a worthwhile podcast, too.

    Episodes are topical rather than chronological and we try to release one episode every month. But we're teachers with busy young families in addition to being podcasters. So if we go a little longer than that between episodes, bear with us!

    © 2024 From Here to History
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Episódios
  • Halloween Special: Ghosts of Tragedies Past
    Oct 31 2024

    Just in time for Halloween! Join Chris and Jason as they discuss two historic sites that are reputed to be haunted: Poveglia Island in the Venetian Lagoon and Greyfriars Kirkyard in Old Town Edinburgh. Are the tortured souls in their tragic pasts still with us today?

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    Reading material on Poveglia Island is extremely scarce.
    But if you're interested in Greyfriars, and larger Scottish history in general, you could do worse than this list.

    The Ghost that Haunted Itself by Jan-Andrew Henderson
    Scotland: the Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
    How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
    Charles II by Ronald Hutton

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    2 horas e 25 minutos
  • The Comanches, Pt 2: War and Peace
    Oct 3 2024

    The Comanche entered the southern great plains slowly and imperceptibly, ultimately to find themselves one part of a very restless world. There were imperial tensions between European powers, as well as ancient rivalries and territorial ambitions of powerful native nations. It wasn't exactly a game of thrones, but it was a contest nonetheless. Listen in as Chris and Jason discuss the Comanche's war of annihilation against the Apache, their tumultuous relationship with the Spanish, shrewd alliances with other native nations, and the peace that was engineered in the twilight of Spanish power in North America.

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    Further reading:
    Comanches: History of a People T.R. Fehrenbach
    The Comanche Empire Pekka Hamalainen
    Empire of the Summer Moon S.C. Gwynne
    The Comanches: A History 1706-1875 Thomas Kavanagh
    The Last Comanche Chief Bill Neely

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    1 hora e 10 minutos
  • The Comanches, Pt 1: Coming of the Numunu
    Sep 3 2024

    "They came to the plains from the west, slipping through the canyon passes of the Sangre de Cristo Range in small, roving bands...They were few in number, possessed little wealth...New Mexico's Spanish officials noted their arrival to the southern grasslands in 1706 and wrote it off as a minor event. Yet by midcentury, the Numunu, then bearing the name Comanches, had unhinged the world they had almost unnoticeably entered"

    So begins historian Pekka Hamalainen's epic history, The Comanche Empire. They were the continent's greatest horsemen and possibly the most ferocious warriors in history. In the first of several episodes on the Comanches, Chris and Jason trace their origins as hunter gatherers in vast North American wilderness, their migration south, and the fearsome but adaptable culture they forged on their path to dominance of the southern Great Plains.

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    Further reading:
    Comanches: History of a People T.R. Fehrenbach
    The Comanche Empire Pekka Hamalainen
    Empire of the Summer Moon S.C. Gwynne
    The Comanches: A History 1706-1875 Thomas Kavanagh


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    1 hora e 20 minutos

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