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J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
Episodes for the Beyond the Big Screen Podcast
Episodes for the Beyond the Big Screen Podcast
Description: Today we are joined by special guest Michael Pye to talk about his new book Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age. Michael Pye shows us how Antwerp was the New York City of its day. It was a center for politics, finance, art, music, industry…
Listen to "Coming Soon - War and Peace in Meso America" on Spreaker. Ancient Meso American history and politics are subjects not discussed very much in the popular culture. What do we get right and wrong?
Coming Soon - The Golden Ages of Shakespeare and Antwerp
Title: The Truth and Fantasy of Jamestown Description: Today I am joined by Sarah Tanksalvala of the Rejects and Revolutionaries podcast to talk about the movie Jamestown about the founding of the Jamestown colony. This is an incredible story. The movie definitely portrays action, romance and drama, but how much…
Title: Black Robe, New France and the Jesuits Description: Today I am joined by Mark Vinet, producer of the History of North America podcast to talk about the movie Black Robe. This is an incredibly unique and rare movie. It looks at the complicated relationship between the French, Jesuits and…
Coming Soon - Colonialism and the New World
Title: WASPS and the American Aristocracy Description: Today we are joined by author Michael Knox Beran to discuss the fascinating story of a group of people who are incredibly important to understand how the United States was formed and grew, the WASPs. White Anglo Saxon Protestants or WASPs for short…
Title: Presidents, Patriots and Profits! Description: Today we are joined by author Susan Nagel to discuss her book Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the Rivalry for America's Capital City. We discuss the incredible story how Alexander Hamilton, Philip Schuyler, George Washington and maybe, maybe not Thomas Jefferson hammered…
Title: Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid and Kris Kristopherson Description: Today we are joined again by actor, scholar and Wild West fanatic Jacob Herr to discuss on of the most compelling movies about the legendary Wild West Gunslinger Billy the Kid. The 1973 film “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”…
