Heretic History Podcast

It's 1850 and Harriet Tubman, only just recently escaped from slavery, has begun a new life of freedom in Philadelphia.  But that very same year Congress will pass the Fugitive Slave Act, which will throw her life and the lives of all escaped slaves into peril. Follow Harriet from her first steps of freedom to the dawn of the Civil War as she risks everything to save her family from enslavement. ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps one of the greatest figures in American history; a freedom fighter, nurse, advocate and leader.  But before she was any of that, she was a young girl, born in bondage.  Small but strong, enslaved but obstinate and self-assured.  After a traumatic head injury at the age of 13 she will begin seeing visions of the future, she will hear the voice of God instructing her to gui...

Part II of our first episode.  Elizabeth Tudor is now fifteen years old, orphaned and left with no one to rely on but herself.  She has already faced her first brush with treason and lived to tell the tale.  But there are still ten long years ahead of her before she will sit on the English throne.  Her trials and tribulations are only just beginning.

History remembers Elizabeth I as a powerful, beloved, and successful monarch.  To this day, she is one of the most recognizable figures in Western history. But before all of that, before the Golden Age, she was simply Elizabeth Tudor, the product of what many considered to be an unholy union between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.  Declared illegitimate by the age of two, she would spend the first 25...

Just a quick introduction, a bit of info about me and what I'm hoping to do with this new podcast:   I'm an amateur history nut with a penchant for performance and a passion for research and exploration.  Once a month I sit down with my trusty goblet of wine and discuss the lives and legends of badass women history may have over looked.