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Back to SearchJoan of Arc: The Proof and Orleans (Part 2)
Episode 54
A crossbow bolt slams beneath her collarbone, the surgeons say stop, and Joan of Arc gets back on the horse. That is the moment Orléans turns. We fol…
7 months, 1 week ago
Joan of Arc: Voices From Heaven (Part 1)
Episode 53
A teenage peasant girl claims God is speaking directly to her—and medieval Europe has a problem.
In Part 1 of The Maid’s Divine Politics, we rewind to…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Haitian Curse: A Legacy of Occupation (Part 4)
Episode 52
We trace how the 1915 U.S. occupation seized Haiti’s gold, reworked its laws, and built security forces that later empowered dictatorship, then follo…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Haitian Curse: The Price of Freedom (Part 3)
Episode 51
We trace Haiti’s leap from independence to isolation, from a flag raised in 1804 to a century of debt that reshaped its economy and politics. We grap…
9 months ago
The Haitian Curse: The Black Jacobins (Part 2)
Episode 50
We trace how Toussaint Louverture transforms a burning revolt into a political project with armies, laws, and an economy strong enough to face Europe…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Haitian Curse: Welcome to Hell (Part 1)
Episode 49
We trace how Saint-Domingue’s profit machine turned human lives into inputs and why that made Haiti’s revolution not just likely but logical. From Og…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Swiss Accident: Marignano 1515
Episode 48
A mercenary powerhouse loses a single battle and becomes the world’s broker of peace. We trace how Marignano in 1515 forced Switzerland to pivot from…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
India's Moral Revolution: 24 Days To Freedom
Episode 47
A handful of salt shouldn’t threaten an empire. Yet in 1930, Gandhi turned that simple mineral into a precision tool that cracked the moral shell of …
11 months, 1 week ago
The Ethiopian Exception: Resisting the Irresistible (Part 3)
Episode 46
We trace the 1960 palace coup, the rise of a critical elite, and the famine that shattered Haile Selassie’s story of gradual reform. The fall of the …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ethiopian Exception: The Crown and The Cross (Part 2)
Episode 45
Emperor Haile Selassie's journey from Ethiopian modernizer to exiled leader reveals the hypocrisy at the heart of international law when confronted w…
1 year ago