The rest is history
I recently discovered a podcast called “The rest is history” that’s as entertaining as it’s informative. That’s a combination you don’t often see, but these Brits manage it somehow. Warning, though: it’s addictive.
Each podcast is more or less an hour long. But the hour goes fast. I tend to listen either when I’m relaxing or when I’m doing some boring chore. When YouTube first decided I might be interested in the podcasts – YouTube is sometimes pretty sharp about that sort of thing – I watched one of their discussions of the French Revolution. It’s part of a lengthy series, but it was this one about the royal family’s attempt to flee the country when things were getting very dicey. It’s gives you a good idea of the flavor of the podcasters’ approach:
Then I watched one segment of another multi-part in-depth series, this time on the Titanic disaster. It was another topic I felt that I knew a great deal about already, and yet it held my attention very well:
Next I watched a five-parter on Luther. Fascinating.
You can find their videos at this link. If I’d had history teachers like this I probably would have been a history major.
I love this, thanks Neo!
Thanks for the tip Neo…Luther?!!
Will wonders never cease?
Sandbrook and Holland!
Although I have never heard of this offering, those are 2 trustworthy historians. Thanks again Boss.
Now I’ll never get any work done 😉
Funny, I just started watching these guys two weeks ago. They’re pretty good at it.
If you happen to be interested, here is an extended interview with Lue Elizondo at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgM5V44eQHU&t=19s
I discovered them a couple of years ago. Theirs and a couple of other podcasters have replaced the radio when driving. Of their recent podcasts, besides the ones you mentioned, I recommend the ones on the Aztecs and George Custer. They add so much more context than what I recall receiving when I was being educated.
P.S. In just the ten hours since the interview of Lue Elizondo has been released it has racked up 268,000 views.
Thanks. This is exactly the kind of thing I listen to while working out.
Thank you Neo!
The reference to the Titanic makes me want to listen to Bob Dylan’s 15-minute song, Tempest. Fascinating storytelling. Mournful strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBVADoo3iI
@ Snow — a post for you.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13715847/ufo-sighting-debunker-mick-west-crazy-encounter-not-explain.html
AesopFan–
If a UFO landed in his front yard, Mick West would come up with some way to “debunk” the event, and explain it away.
BTW, as of this morning the Elizondo interview linked above, and only broadcast 19 hours ago, is now up to 414,000 views.
P.P.S.–Yesterday, and prior to his interview, released last evening, with Ross Coulthart on Newsnation, Lue Elizondo had an extended interview on Joe Rogan’s show, and that interview is currently approaching 975,000 views.*
I’d say the Lue Elizondo’s view of the UFO Phenomena and of our government’s 80 year record of handling–and covering up this issue–is getting a lot of attention, as more and more people become familiar with who Lue Elizondo is, his background, and what he has to say on the issue of UFOs and NHIs.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLPtRwXgCM
They’re not all that trustworthy; like everyone else they read a lot into things. And it would be better if their perspectives differed more. The ending of the first Luther episode is very weak. I don’t mean that it’s Protestant in its bias, that is to be expected. But for instance Holland simply doesn’t understand what “science” meant at the time. It was what could be demonstrated by logic. Scripture had not necessary connection.
But a bigger problem is that they both want to see the history of the world in terms of vast sweeps or movements – arcs if you will. Yes, that’s very common. But there’s another way to look at it. J H Hexter was one who fought against it, as did C S Lewis (in his day job). And it really is more plausible. And you avoid misrepresenting such things as the status of dissenting opinions. They think it will be found only outside the Church. That just wasn’t true. Battles among Thomists and Scotists and Ockhamites, were all over the place. (They really should spend some time on Wycliffe.) The very first reaction of the Pope to hearing of Luther was “Some quarrel among monks.” The bottom line is these sweeping accounts are usually (always?) patterns in the clouds.
But it doesn’t fit the way they want to see history.
They also treat the treatment of Hus (certainly vile) as unique to the Medieval Church. Look up Nelson and Carraciolo. Happens a lot. It’s not that I want to attack the two of them, rather to urge withholding judgement when you read or hear historians. Even the best are putting a spin on things.
Laugh of the day–TV report that, “President Biden is monitoring the situation in Israel.”
Yeah, riiiight.
The guy who, lately, can’t even find his way off the stage, or who just wanders off, is keepin’ a close eye on the situation in Israel.
More likely, he’s orderin’ the deployment of more vanilla ice cream to the area, that’ll fix the situation.
I got the history hook when I was about eight years old and visited what was then called the Custer Battlefield National Monument. No one in my immediate family had any idea that my mother’s grandfather was one of the enlisted survivors. I didn’t discover that until a few years later.
Career planning data in high school in the early ‘70s looked grim for any kind of history job. I found out at the same time that I was a computer wiz and the school urged me to go in that direction, but I continued my own studies and have an extensive library still full of information not yet online.
There are four events that I have studied more intensively than other subjects for decades and have written my own notes. They are Custer and the Little Bighorn (obviously), the 1866 Fetterman Fight, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Japanese attack on Clark Field.
I came across The Rest Is History after hearing an interview they did with Dan Carlin (Hardcore History) a couple/three years ago. Been a fan of most of their work since.
And if you like long form podcasts like I do, Dan Carlin is your guy.
Chases Eagles: I was stationed at Clark AFB from ’68 to ’70. Can you recommend any books or videos on the Japanese attack?
I had never heard of that fetterman fight and my thesis advisor who was quite a lefty was an expert on the lakota
RE: UFOs—Where’s the proof?
While I happen to think that Lue Elizondo and other similarly situated former high level government officials and others who have come forward with information about UFOs and NHIs are telling the truth, those who doubt what they say always ask, “where’s the proof, show me a flying saucer, some very obviously alien technology, or the body of a NHI.”
As Lue Elizondo has pointed out, he and these other former government employees are bound by various Non Disclosure Agreements, forbidden from telling all that they know, under penalty of some very heavy consequences if they reveal forbidden information —hard time in a Federal penitentiary, loss of Security Clearances, employment, and perhaps even one’s life.
As Lue has said, it’s easy to demand that someone else tell all, but you aren’t the one who will suffer if they tell, it’s them, and very likely their families too.
Cap’n Rusty,
All are available @Amazon
The Fall of the Philippines (The War in the Pacific)
By Louis Morton
Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942
By William Bartsch
They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
By Walter Edmonds
Bloody Shambles, Vol. 1: The Drift to War to the fall of Singapore
By C. Shores, B. Cull and Y. Izawa
Miguel cervantes,
The Wikipedia entry is pretty much the “standard” story on Fetterman and is wrong, wrong, wrong.
My grandmother came to this country as a teen ager. Her family was refined middle class so she was able to get a job as a downstairs maid for one of the Ford Family. She came looking for her father who had come over before her looking for gold in Alaska. She never got farther than Ohio. She married another young man from the UK who was working at the car company. After they married they saved their money for seven years in order to bring over one brother from each side–one of my grandmother’s brothers and one of my grandfather’s brothers. She was so proud when she was able to buy them each a ticket on the newest biggest liner. It was only third class, but that was so much better than previous third class accommodation had been on other liners.
Many, many years later she told me that she learned what humilty was the day she heard that the Titanic had sunk. She had been so proud to be an American success story–to be able to buy those tickets. All their hard work, all their doing without meant nothing in the end.
I came into her life 32 years later. The first grandchild. In the interim she and her husband had both lost brothers in WWI. They also then lost a grown son in a car accident.
My grandmother lived with great grace and refined dignity and determination all of her life. NO SELF PITY! Just daily determination to do good work and be honorable.
Years later when I came along, dinner on sunday was everyone at the table. Cloth, napkins, silver, ex husband, and his wife, her second husband, her two daughters and second son–there was always an empty chair at the table. That chair was for all the men they had lost in their two families.
One Easter Sunday when I was close to two, my aunt tried to put up my high chair at the table, but I had outgrown it. Then she tried to scooch in a regular chair and put pillows and a dictionary on it for me to sit on. The chair wouldn’t fit close enough to the table. My aunt told her mother to stop grieving–they now had a living reason to get rid of the empty chair and table setting. She had a grandaughter to think about! Grandma removed that empty memorial chair and my aunt was able to scoot my big girl chair close to the table. That grief was finished-not the memories–just the was finally replaced by the gigles of a baby granddaughter!
I have the newspaper clippings and the articles from that time.
Anne:
That’s an extremely touching story. Your grandmother sounds wonderful.
OT
Another indication the country won’t survive in its present form
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/21/hacienda-community-development-oregon-non-citizens-down-payments/
Anne,
Thank you for taking the time to share that touching family history.
Here hanging on the wall of our lakehouse dining room, I have a picture of my immigrant grandparents holding their three year old daughter and one year old son, both of whom they lost in the Spanish Influenza pandemic. They went on to have seven more children, and now as many of their descendants as can gather on July 4 and Thanksgiving, to recognize and celebrate our good fortune at having them come to this great country, and carry on after what had to be incredible heart ache and loss.
Watched the whole French Revolution series.
Great stuff.
I could tell right away that they were Oxbridge men.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/new-perspectives-fetterman-fight
@ Cornhead > “I could tell right away that they were Oxbridge men.”
Why is it never “Camford”?
AesopFan, the immediate answer is that one can drive oxen over bridges; hence, there can be a bridge meant for oxen to use and all is well. But what would a cam need to cross a river via ford for?
On the other hand, it is true that Fords have cams (at least functional ones do). Unfortunately, the formulation is “Camford,” not “Fordcam,” so we would have to deal with the cam tumbling over the riverbed.
@ Philip Sells — LOL.
Now I am trying to figure out how big a bridge you would need and how you would coax the ox to go across it.
Watching a bit more of the Luther series (half so far), I wonder about Sandbrige’s role. He seems to be another Ed McMahon or Hugh Downs.
Holland however is active. But he does fall into his usual trap: always wanting to see things as “this is where it started.” Here, it’s interesting the way he seems to make the same old mistake of believing that Luther discovered conscience. Not so. It was much talked about for centuries before that.