Humans Are Evil - History Podcast
'Humans Are Evil'. A bi-weekly history show unearthing the most shocking events, actions and characters from our past. The episode subjects will shock you in the same way learning about the Holocaust and Atlantic Slave Trade shocked us all the first time we learned about them. Most obviously aren’t on the same scale and severity of that evil catastrophes, but will contain the same lack of humanity that has always characterised humanity throughout all of history.
Episodes
President Andrew Jackson's 'Indian Removal Act' of 1830 set in motion a 1000 mile journey of death and disease for the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek.
In this heartbreaking story, who really should be regarded as the "civilised", and who the "savages"?
It is all too tempting to judge those in the past by today's moral norms. Do Abraham Lincoln's racist statements nullify any of his achievements? Should people who did things we nowadays find morally repugnant be condemned when they knew no better? Are any actions intrinsically morally good or bad?
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING
J. D. Velleman – Foundations for moral relativism
M.
The world's most impressive seafarers and statue builders were reduced from a thriving community of many thousands to just 111 traumatised survivors.
These Rapa Nui people were the victims of their harsh environment, disease, enslavement and gun toting Europeans, Americans and Peruvians. All this after they had already turned against their gods, toppling many of the famous Moai head statues.
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING
T. Hunt ...
"Deus Vult"
The First Crusade, called by the Pope in the name of God, contained the horrors of massacres and cannibalism.
However, it is one of history's most misunderstood conflicts. Properly understanding this subject within its context can only help Christian-Muslim relations.
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING:
J. Riley-Smith – The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
J. Phillips - Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
S. R...
The Argentine Military Junta's brutal campaign of repression, torture and murder that resulted in 30,000 left wing supporters "disappearing" and 500 children taken from their families to be raised by childless members of the military.
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING:
J. Hedges - Argentina: A Modern History
P.H. Lewis - Guerrillas and Generals: The Dirty War in Argentina
D.M.K. Sheinin – Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentineans i...
The crazy 19th century conflict that began with a failed student believing he is Jesus' younger brother and ended with approximately 20 million dead.
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING
God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan – J.D. Spence
Imperial China – F. Schurmann & O. Schell
China from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution – J. Chesneaux et al
Rebellions and Revolutions: China 1800s to 2000 – J. Gray
The "Buggery Laws" between the years 1533 and 1835 represent the peak of state sponsored homophobic persecution in Britain. This episode unearths a little known part of our history of discrimination.
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING:
A Gay History of Britain – M.Cook et al
Hidden from History – M. B. Dubberman et al
Homophobia: A History – B. Fone
https://www.bl.uk/lgbtq-histories/articles/the-men-killed-under-the-buggery-act
Described by some as the "first genocide". This episode tells the incredible story of one of the world's greatest civilisation's last stand.
"Carthago delenda est"
(Carthage must be destroyed!)
MAIN SOURCES/FURTHER READING:
Carthage – B.H. Warmington
Destroy Carthage! – A. Lloyd
The Punic Wars – B. Caven
To be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage - R. T. Ridley
Cato The Elder and the destruction of Carthage – E...
The independence of India was supposed to be a happy occasion, but it soon descended into unimaginable violence and suffering based on attempted religious purification.
Main sources/further reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/india-pakistan-partition-imperial-britain.html
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-road-to-partition/
The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan - Yasmin...
Arguably the worst act of colonialism in history were up to 10 million Congolese people died in 2 decades.
Main Sources:
Red Rubber - ED Morel
Five Years With The Congo Cannibals - H Ward
Leopold to lumumba: a history of the belgian congo, 1877-1960 - G Martelli
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa - A Hochschild
Main Sources
The Aztecs - RF Townsend
Aztecs - I Clendinnen
The Aztecs of Central America - F Berdan
https://webpages.uidaho.edu/engl257/Ren/aztec_empire_in_1519.htm
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