Historium
Did you ever fall asleep in history class? You’re not alone. History can be boring when focusing on only dates and statistics. Historium seeks to find the narrative of history in some of the most unlikely places. Seamlessly blending history and storytelling, Jake Barton draws you into historical tales you’ve probably never heard before.
Episodes
The story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports.
Music:
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma
- Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi
- Classic Battle by Sam Spence
- Denmark by Portland Cello Project
- Independant by Brocker Way
- Tilting at Windmills by Brocker Way
- Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
- Spanish Flea by...
(This is an unlocked Patreon bonus episode. For more bonus episodes, check out www.patreon.com/historium)
Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that…
When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter stick of dynamite… things quickly got out of hand.
Welcome to Disco Demolition Night.
An episode from a show I love called The Wind.
"Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do."
For more episodes: https://thewind.org/
For our bonus episode with Fil: patreon.com/historium
Neils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program.
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Alarm Will Sound, Marisa Anderson, Kali Malone, Zoe Keating, Julie Kent, Ben Von Wildenhaus, Brocker W...
Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg.
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico.
For bonus episodes and a special series patch: www.patreon.c...
Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at a secret research facility in Los Alamos. Meanwhile, counterintelligence seeks to unearth a secret communist spy ring within the very heart of the nuclear weapons program. A cold war starts before a world war ends.
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Ludovico Einauldi, Luke Howard, Alarm Will Sound, Ben S...
On the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins...
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioulard, Zoe Keating, Nine Inch Nails, Choral Arts Northwest, and The Louvin Brothers.
For the rest of the series and ...
The story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
For more bonus episodes: patreon.com/historium
Music:
- Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
- Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
- Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathan...
Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.
For more episode...
Tehran 1943.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet together for the first time with hopes of overcoming their ideological differences in order to win the Second World War.
For bonus episodes: patreon.com/historium
Music:
- Nightbook by Ludovico Einauldi
- Vanguard by Bear McCreary
- History is Listening by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
- Increase by David Lang
- Prelude by Dario Marianelli & Vikin...
In the late 1700s, a chess-playing automaton marched across Europe, achieving checkmates against novices and masters alike–all while hiding an incredible secret…
Music:
- Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings by Siefried Behrend & DZO Chamber Orchestra
- Clockwork Toccata, Op. 68 by Fulvio Caldini & the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
- Concerto no. 5 en la mineur by Bach
- Mr. Moustafa by Alexandre Desplat
- Denmark b...
This episode was always a feel-good fan favorite, so I decided to pluck it from the archives, rewrite it, re-record it, and remix it now that I'm a better writer with better equipment. Merry Christmas!
'During the first Christmas of the First World War, troops from opposing armies defied orders and participated in a series of impromptu ceasefires in the no man’s land between the trenches.'
Music:
- Keetley by OK Ikumi
- ...
In 1925, dog sled teams faced extreme subzero temperatures, whiteout conditions, and hurricane-force winds to deliver medicine to sick children in the remote mining town of Nome, Alaska. This feat of interspecies heroism would become one of the most harrowing rescue attempts in American history.
Music:
- Etude by Joep Beving
- Prelude for Piano and Malaria by Worrytrain
- Born Unto Trouble by Bill Elm & Woody Jackson
- Suicide by Marc S...
In early 1964, on the eve of The Beatles’ first international tour, Ringo Starr fell ill. To avoid cancelling the shows at the height of Beatlemania, they hired Jimmie Nicol as a temporary replacement. The stand-in drummer serves as a case study in what happens to a human psyche when propelled from relative obscurity to worldwide fame (and back again…) all in the span of a few months.
For relevant photos and access to more episodes...
After Columbus opened Pandora’s Box by crossing the Atlantic, conquistadors ventured into the New World for god, glory, and gold; rarely in that order. One of these conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro, could not ignore the rumors of an empire of golden cities in the cloud peaks of the Andes, which sent him on a collision course with Atualpa, the god emperor of the Inca Empire.
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As the final episode of this wild year called 2020, here's fifteen quick mini-stories from throughout history!
(This is an unlocked Patreon bonus episode. For more bonus episodes, check out www.patreon.com/historium)
Lots of myth busting of misconceptions about indigenous people coupled with new research that shines a light of what the New World and its inhabitants were actually like.
How do we Americans remember the deadliest night in human history? The answer is simple. We don't.
This is the story of the strangest race ever run.
In 1919, rage from injustices erupted into violent race riots which spread throughout Chicago. All the while, Spanish Flu spread like wildfire in this unfortunately relevant story about the Chicago Race Riots.
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