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History on Fire
Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.
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EPISODE 114: The Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana
“With P2, we had Italy in our hands. The Army, the Guardia di Finanzia, the police… they were all ruled by our members.” - Licio Gelli
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EPISODE 113: Rome’s Forgotten Guerrilla Master
“For many of those for whom there is no light at the end of the tunnel, the story of Sertorius should be an example and an inspiration.” - Philip Maty...
[RERUN] EPISODE 80: The Patriotic Mobsters
“Lucky will not be pleased to hear that you have not been helpful.” - Joe Adonis
“The outcome of the war appeared extremely grave. In ad...
EPISODE 112: Historical Daddy Issues
“The thought of him now and always has been a sense of comfort. I could breathe, I could sleep, when he had me in his arms. My father—he got me breath...
[RERUN] EPISODE 79: Slavery
It was only a few generations ago when large numbers of people in United States saw nothing wrong with the notion of buying, selling and owning human...
EPISODE 111: When Monsters Choose War
“It is our belief that Saddam wishes to return Islam to blasphemy and polytheism...if America becomes victorious...and grants victory to Saddam, Islam...
[RERUN] EPISODE 76: Poets and Pirates, Sex and Drugs, Love and Music: D’Annunzio and L’Impresa di Fiume (Part 2)
“I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.” - Gabriele D’Annunzio
“We a...
Poets and Pirates, Sex and Drugs, Love and Music: D’Annunzio and L’Impresa di Fiume (Part 1)
“We heard that D’Annunzio was coming, and Italy and freedom were coming with him.” - Anonymous Italian citizen of Fiume
“Th...
EPISODE 110: A Tale of Two Saints, St. Francis and Drukpa Kunley
“What are servants of God good for, if not for moving the hearts of men and elevating them to spiritual joy?” - St. Francis
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[RERUN] EPISODE 74: The Life of Marcus Aurelius (Part 2): Stoicism, Pandemic and War
“No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes b...
[RERUN] EPISODE 73: The Life of Marcus Aurelius (Part 1): Stoicism, Pandemic and War
“Rise up and do battle.” - Homer
“Discipline is freedom, and the companion to imagination. Discipline makes it possible for...
EPISODE 109: The Mesoamerican Godfather
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” - Mario Puzo
“Grant me revenge!” from Conan the Barbarian, 1982
EPISODE 108: Tattooed Headhunters of the Steppes
"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind… Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph." -...
[RERUN] EPISODE 72: John Brown (Part 3): Violent Delights, Violent Ends
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” - John Brown
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[RERUN] EPISODE 71: John Brown (Part 2): A Reckoning in Blood
“I think he [God] has used me as an instrument to kill men; and if I live, I think he will use me as an instrument to kill a good many more.” — John B...
[RERUN] EPISODE 70: John Brown (Part 1): Heartbreak & Slavery
In this first episode of a three-part series, we’ll introduce the early part of John Brown’s life and his crusade against slavery. Among today’s topic...
EPISODE 107: The Forge of the Samurai: The Genpei War Part 2
“This is how 70,000 horsemen of the Taira died, buried in this one deep valley; the mountain creeks ran red with their blood and the mound of their co...
EPISODE 106: The Forge of the Samurai: The Genpei War Part 1
“The sound of the Gion Shoja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must dec...
[RERUN] EPISODE 69: Capturing Mussolini
“He must be handed over to a tribunal of the people so it can judge him quickly. We want this, even though we think an execution platoon is too much o...
[RERUN] EPISODE 68: My Grandma and Her Bombs: A Story of WWII
“Women must obey… My opinion of women’s role within the state is against any kind of feminism. In our state, women must not count.” - Benito Mussolini...
[RERUN] EPISODE 66: Sex in Ancient Rome
“From an author’s perspective, writing about sex is risky, because if you write well enough, evocatively enough, vividly enough, you make the reader w...
EPISODE 105: Rationalizing Evil in El Salvador
“I didn’t know what to do. They were killing my children. I knew that If I went back there to help my children I would be cut to pieces. But I couldn’...
EPISODE 104: The Saint and the Death Squads
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter he kingdom of God.” Matthew 19: 24
[RERUN] EPISODE 65: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3): A River of Death
“Everywhere in southern Anhui they are eating people.” Zeng Guofan
“Infants but recently born were torn from their mother’s...
[RERUN] EPISODE 64: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 2): Jesus’ Chinese Younger Brother
“Is not this insurgent movement truly wonderful? These rebels keep Sabbath as we do, they pray to God daily, they read the Scriptures, they break the...
[RERUN] EPISODE 63: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1): Drug Dealers and Visionaries
“The entire story of the Taiping Rebellion might be told, from one perspective, as the rage of a failed exam candidate writ large.” Stephen Platt
EPISODE 103: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 2)
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.” Miyamoto Musashi
Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been th...
EPISODE 102: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 1)
“All warfare is based on deception.” Sun Tzu
Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by...
EPISODE 101: The History Behind Killers of the Flower Moon
“But the years of peace and plenty was not to last. Slowly the days turned sour and the watchful nights closed in. Thrór's love of gold grown too fier...
[RERUN] EPISODE 62: Plagues, Mystery and Dancing
“The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws an...
[RERUN] EPISODE 61: Raiders in the Night
“Never in history had the United States Army been called on to rescue such a large number of POWs from so deep in enemy territory.” William Breuer
EPISODE 100: Thug Life, Benvenuto Cellini (Part 2)
“Brother, this is the greatest sorrow and the greatest trial that could happen to me in the whole course of my life. But don’t despair; before you los...
EPISODE 99: Thug Life: Benvenuto Cellini (Part 1)
“If one of you comes out of the shop, let the other run for a priest, because there’ll be no need for a doctor.” Benvenuto Cellini
“The w...
[RERUN] EPISODE 60: Fear and Loathing in Mongolia (Part 2)
“On these hills, where everywhere were rolling skulls, skeletons, and decaying body parts, Baron Ungern used to like to go to rest.” One of Ungern-Ste...
[RERUN] EPISODE 59: Fear and Loathing in Mongolia (Part 1)
“My name is surrounded with such hate and fear that no one can judge what is the truth and what is false, what is history, and what is myth.” Roman vo...
EPISODE 98: Machine Gun Blues
“Most people go through life thinking they’re totally safe. People like us, we know the truth. Life is hard and dangerous, and sometimes you just got...
[RERUN] EPISODE 58 Sitting Bull: Wounded Knee (Part 5)
“There a papoose cries by its mother’s breast which, cold and insensible, can nourish it no more; there lies a young girl with her long hair sticky of...
[RERUN] EPISODE 57 Sitting Bull: Compulsory Civilization with a Side of Murder (Part 4)
“Sent to report on a story that wasn’t there, reporters invented one.” Heather Cox Richardson
“Lakota will kill you.” A meadowlark speak...
[RERUN] EPISODE 56 Sitting Bull: Compulsory Civilization with a Side of Murder (Part 3)
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[RERUN] EPISODE 55 Sitting Bull (Part 2)
“I don’t want to have anything to do with people who make one carry water on the shoulders and haul manure. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to...