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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. We’re back... and we brought pirates! Actually, that’s probably not such a great idea, what with all the stealing and pillaging and slow-matches in the beard and buckets of burning sulphur. Of course that’s only if we brought Edward Teach, but you get the idea. This episode was recorded live in front of a very groggy audience on a Sunday morning at the Brass Screw Confederacy Steampunk festival in Pt. Townsend, Washington on June 11, 2017. We had a great time revelling in all the pirate stuff and hope you enjoy our little presentation.Show notes and links: On Stranger Tides , by Tim Powers (amazon.com) A General History of the Pyrates (wikipedia.org) The Seafarers, Time-Life: The Pirates (amazon.com) Movieing On #233: Yellowbeard (csicon.fm) The Sea Dogs (infogalactic.com) Barbarossa Brothers, Barbary Pirates: Pirate's Realm (thepiratesrealm.com) Old Ironsides (1926) (amazon.com) Jean Lafitte (infogalactic.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. In part 2 of our series on World War 1, we take some time to talk about how the various Allied Countries armed up in the first months of the conflict, and how the United States basically became the “Arsenal of Democracy” long before WW2.Show notes and links: "The Son" (2017) (imdb.com) The Persuaders! (TV Series 1971–1972) (imdb.com) The odd little action TV show with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis that we couldn't remember the name of. Arsenal of Democracy (infogalactic.com) Gordon's Gun Closet #1: Colt New Service (csicon.fm) M1911 pistol (infogalactic.com) Gordon's Gun Closet #3: M1911 (csicon.fm) Lewis gun (infogalactic.com) M1895 Colt (infogalactic.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Germany during WW2 seemed, at first, to be headed for economic recovery and a bright shining future. A few young people recently returned from witnessing the true heart of the Third Reich thought differently and sought to oppose the Nazi movement and Hitler’s government. They called themselves “The White Rose”*. They operated in secret, distributing pamphlets trying to wake up the populace to the reality of their situation:“...our present ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. ...if you know that, why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you...of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? But if a man no longer can summon the strength to demand his right, then it is absolutely certain that he will perish.”* We mistakenly call it the “Order of the White Rose” a few times during this episode. That’s a different thing.Show notes and links: Memoirs of a Professional Cad, George Sanders (amazon.com) A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, James Henry Breasted (amazon.com) White Rose (infogalactic.com) "The White Rose Leaflets" Revolt & Resistance White Rose leaflet images with translations (holocaustresearchproject.org) "The Man in the High Castle" (2015) (imdb.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Not all of our topics are hopeful or uplifting. Discussions of wars and man’s inhumanity to man are part of the study of history. In this episode we talk about a controversial chapter in world history, the Armenian Genocide, that overlaps WW1, but that we felt should be discussed separately.Show notes and links: Movieing On #236: The Thing From Another World (csicon.fm) House of Rejoicing: Part 1 of The Book of Coming Forth by Day (amazon.com) Armenian Genocide (infogalactic.com) Fresno (TV Mini-Series 1986– ) (imdb.com) The Promise (2016) - IMDb (imdb.com) The Promise (reelviews.net) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. As we continue into the 100 year anniversary of the Great War, eventually known as World War 1, we thought it appropriate to begin a series discussing this turning point in history. In this episode we talk about the events leading up to the war. Show notes and links: Bleak House (TV Mini-Series 2005– ) (imdb.com) 124-Year-Old Never-Worn Levi's Found in Arizona Cedar Chest (foxbusiness.com) The Influence of Sea Power on History, Alfred Thayer Mahan (gutenberg.org) RMS Lusitania (infogalactic.com) The History Files #17: U.S. in Mexico, 1914 (csicon.fm) The History Files #47: Pancho Villa (csicon.fm) National Guard of the United States (infogalactic.com) Zimmermann Telegram (infogalactic.com) William Jennings Bryan (infogalactic.com) John J. Pershing (infogalactic.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. While there are no records of large-scale wars or even battles in the Puget Sound area, there have been a few skirmishes over the years. Many people have heard of the Pig War (see HF ep. 53) , but fewer know of the Battle of... Port Gamble. It’s a case of truth being stranger than fiction, with the US Navy coming to the defense of the S’Klallam Indians of present day Little Boston, and we’re here to tell you all about it.Show notes and links: Norwood Cove Object (mdihistory.org) Gordon's Gun Closet #18: Indiana Jones (csicon.fm) Battle of Port Gamble (infogalactic.com) Battle of Port Gamble (youtube.com) In the Land of the Headhunter (vimeo.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Civil wars are the ugliest wars, and one of the saddest was the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). It’s the subject and setting of many a novel and film, and it’s our topic in this episode.Show notes and links: BRASS – Steampunk Radio Adventure (battlegroundproductions.org) Jonathan Coulton - A Talk With George (youtube.com) George Plimpton (wikipedia.org) Movieing On #228: Persuasion (csicon.fm) Movieing On #229: The Outlaw Josey Wales (csicon.fm) Guns of “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (csicon.fm) Spanish Civil War » What’s in a Name? (csicon.fm) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. He’s “Old Hickory”, he’s the seventh President of the United States, the guy on the twenty dollar bill, and he founded the Democratic Party. He’s Andrew Jackson, he’s a cranky Scot, and we’re here to talk about him.Show notes and links: The Crown (TV Series 2016– ) (imdb.com) Movieing On #227: Au Revoir Les Enfants (csicon.fm) Andrew Jackson Gordon's Gun Closet #16: Ferguson Breech-loader (csicon.fm) Peter McQueen William Weatherford (a.k.a. Lamochattee [Red Eagle]) Creek War Battle of New Orleans The Corrupt Bargain Indian Removal Act of 1830 What’s in a Name? (csicon.fm) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. This week we talk about one of the most beloved figures in American history, Gen. Robert E. Lee. He made a monumentally difficult decision to fight for the secessionists during the American Civil War (1861-65) and became world famous for leading a troubled South with steadfast honor.Show notes and links: The Crown (TV Series 2016– ) (imdb.com) Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire, by Kathleen Sharp (amazon.com) Frontier (TV Series 2016– ) (imdb.com) Robert E. Lee Winfield Scott The History Files #53: The Pig War (csicon.fm) Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III Traveller (Lee's horse) Movieing On #224: The Great Gatsby (csicon.fm) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. [encrypted_email text=""][/encrypted_email]We all want to know what’s going on in our world and elsewhere, but who can we trust to give us “all the news that’s fit to print” or tell us “that’s the way it was”? This week we look at the origins of the news media, how it became a business, and try to figure out what’s “fake news” and what’s “real news”. Yep, it’s all the news about news.Show notes and links: Geekdays (csicon.fm) The Man in the High Castle - Season 2 (amazon.com) The Crown (TV Series 2016– ) (imdb.com) Yellow journalism Aimee Semple McPherson US Govt Just Legalized Operation Mockingbird - FBI Can Now Impersonate the Media (thefreethoughtproject.com) Distorting Reality Worldwise - CIA and the Media (lewrockwell.com) Coffee With Jeff #117 - Celluloid of the Strange & Unusual 1 (csicon.fm) Movieing On #222: Wild at Heart (csicon.fm) Bad Cat Productions - YouTube (youtube.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Alt history is a great way to analyze the past and take a long look at how we arrived at where we are now. Many historians and fiction writers have speculated about what the world would be like if World War 2 had ended differently. In celebration of season two of The Man in the High Castle, we take a look at the end of WW2 and talk about what happened versus what might have happened.Show notes and links: The Man in the High Castle Season 2 Release Date, Trailer, and Review (denofgeek.com) The Man In the High Castle - Season 1 (amazon.com) The History Files #45: Alternate History (csicon.fm) History Files videos - Presidential Election Perspective: 2016 vs. 1860 (youtu.be) Operation Downfall Hunting Hitler (history.com) Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death The Koumentang or National Revolutionary Army - Wikipedia Burma Road Chindits -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. We spent two episodes talking about the origins of the American cowboy, the golden age of the cattle drive, and some of the heroes of the old west. This week - in part three - we talk about the cowboy's migration from the range to the silver screen and further developments of cowboy culture.Show notes and links: The Crown (TV series) Firearms of the American West at SteamCon II (2010) (Bad Cat Productions at youtu.be) Buffalo Bill Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Bill Pickett Tom Mix William S. Hart Packing Iron: Gunleather of the Frontier West - Richard C. Rattenbury, Janet Begley, Norm Flayderman This week's special music: A Cocky Cowboy, Cliff Ferre with the Cafe Society Quintet (archive.org) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Thanksgiving, American style. What's this holiday all about? Who were those “Pilgrims” and why were they so keen to get to North America? And what about Squanto? Find out in this week’s exciting episode of The History Files!Show notes and links: The History Files #77: Cowboys Pt. 2 (csicon.fm) Firearms of the American West at SteamCon II (2010) (youtu.be) Squanto Martin Frobisher John Cabot -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. In part two of our short series on the cowboy, we dive into the peak years of the big cattle drives, the crystallization of American cowboy accoutrements, and take a look at some of the noteworthy personalities that made names for themselves in and around the cattle towns of the second half of the nineteenth century.Show notes and links: The History Files #76: Cowboys Pt. 1 (csicon.fm) Bad Cat Productions (youtube.com) Charlie Siringo (author of "A Texas Cowboy") "Arizona Cowboys", Dane Coolidge (amazon.com) "Bear River" Thomas J. Smith John Wesley Hardin Elmer Keith Monte Walsh (1970 film) Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com) Archive.org - today's special music, "Get Along Little Doggies" performed by the Cartwright Brothers (1927) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Saddle up and stow your bedroll, it’s time to hit the dusty trail as we take a look at the history of the American cowboy. This week, in part one, we start in the early 19th century in the American southwest with Mexican Vaqueros, and end up mid-century in Abilene, Kansas and the era of the cattle drive.Show notes and links: The History Files #75: Election Shenanigans (csicon.fm) Bad Cat Productions - head over and subscribe! (youtube.com) "Ranch life and the hunting-trail", Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (archive.org) Complete text. The Cowboys, William H. Forbis & Time-Life Books. (amazon.com) Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Joseph McCoy Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com) "The Cowboy's Lament", performed by Ken Maynard (1930) This Week's special music. -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. It is said that truth is stranger than fiction. When it comes to presidential elections, this is definitely the case. This week we take a look at elections shenanigans over the past couple hundred years and answer questions like “What’s Tammany Hall?”, “What American president served the longest?”, and find out who said “Vote early, vote often.”Show notes and links: Westworld (TV Series 2016– ) (imdb.com) Amelia Earhart May Have Died a Castaway on Uninhabited Island (nbcnews.com) Stars and Stripes - USA Month on British Pathé (youtube.com) Corrupt Bargain (wikipedia.org) Posse Comitatus Act Tammany Hall Vote early and vote often Bad Cat Productions's YouTube channel Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com) TMS 30 Second Film Festival! (frogpants.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. As Halloween approaches, our thoughts turn to darker topics. This week we take a look at the history of witch hunts, which, it seems, were not always just about witches. Old World and New World, it seems folks just can’t suffer a witch and all that.Show notes and links: The Lady's Not for Burning (wikipedia.org) The Lady's Not For Burning (1950) - John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Richard Burton (youtube.com) The Crucible 1 Samuel 28:6 (NKJV) - Saul and the witch of EnDor The Malleus Maleficarum (malleusmaleficarum.org) DBad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com) The History Files (@history_files) (twitter.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. It’s dystopic, it’s cyber, it’s a thriller... and it’s a Western! Well, sort of. It’s the new (2016) HBO big-budget series Westworld, and we’re here to talk about it after seeing the first two episodes.Show notes and links: Westworld (1973) Written and dir. by Michael Crichton Westworld (2016) Ed Harris' LeMat Conversion Revolver in HBO's WestWorld (Forgotten Weapons) Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com) -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. The exploration of the New World, what we now call North America, is a long and many-faceted story. If Columbus wasn't the first from the Old World to set foot in the Americas, then who was? The Norse? The Chinese? And if Drake's Bay isn't on Point Reyes, California... then where is it? We might not have the answers, but we certainly have some questions.Show notes and links: Roman Bullets Tell Story of 1,800-Year-Old Attack on Scottish Fort (livescience.com) BRASS – The Steampunk Radio Adventure (battlegroundproductions.org) Christopher Columbus Norse colonization of the Americas (wikipedia.org) Evidence of the Chinese Fleets visiting California | 1421 | 1434 (gavinmenzies.net) Was Columbus Jewish? - Chuck Missler (khouse.org) New Albion The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 - Samuel Bawlf Northwest Passage Bad Cat Store at Zazzle -
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Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Grab your shooting irons, saddle up, and ride out with The Magnificent Seven. This week we give our opinions of this dusty, shooty Western in theaters now in Fall of 2016. Spoiler: we liked it.Show notes and links: Ancient Roman coins unearthed from castle ruins in Okinawa (japantimes.co.jp) Surely Columbus Didn’t “Discover” America.. Roman Sword Found on Oak Island May Rewrite History (themindunleashed.com) BRASS – BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS (battlegroundproductions.org) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Elmer Bernstein The Magnificent Seven (2016) Bass Reeves Jesse Chisholm Bad Cat Shop at Zazzle (zazzle.com) - Visa fler
