Historyfeels: The Podcast

This week we dive into the political upheaval in Rome, track Ceasar across the Rubicon and into his Civil War with Pompey. The episode will weave it's way to the events that took place on the Ides in Rome in 44 B.C., one of the most famous events in Roman history. Email: historyfeels1986@gmail.com   Patreon patreon.com/historyfeels_

In this first episode in our series on Julius Caesar and the Ides of March we are going to follow the rise of Julius Caesar, tracing how he maneuvered his way from a youth in exile to growing power in the Roman political system until he eventually changed history by crossing the Rubicon, marching on Rome, and sending the whole country into civil war.   Bonus episode out on Patreon: patreon.com/his...

Originally we had planned to release this much closer to actual Valentine's Day, but in this episode we are going to focus on how Al Capone rose to power during a period of intense gang violence in the 1920's known as the Chicago Beer Wars. Capone displayed some of his most ruthless tendencies during this time in order to win the war, and it all culminated in the infamous valentine's day massacre....

In the final episode of our Riches and Ruin series we are going to tackle the last months of Bonnie and Clyde's life on the run, along with the manhunt by the legendary Texas Ranger that eventually brought the couple down. We also spend some time thinking about myth making, and give a few thoughts on why the story of two mediocre thieves and murderers still resonates almost 100 years later. Suppor...

This week we are going to take a short break in our series on the Barrow Gang and the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde in order to tell a quick story inspired by recent headlines. This month, Chinese Spy Balloons were spotted flying over the mainland United States when word came out that the North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD was tracking a strange object traveling over the continental Uni...

When we left our story last week the young outlaws had been separated by iron bars once again. This time though it was Bonnie who had been arrested. After Cylde's plan to stage a breakout of the Eastham Prison had gone disastrously wrong, the couple had ended up cornered in a Texas riverbank, hunted down by a posse of locals looking for justice against the thieves. Clyde had then made a fateful ch...

They were known across the country by their first names - Bonnie and Clyde. Their story of romance, danger, and murder had captivated the nation while they were on the run. But how does a young couple, both barely out of their teenage years, rise to such a level of national infamy - I mean still to this day they are glamorized in movies, shows, pop culture almost 100 years later? And why exactly w...

When we left the series last week, we'd almost reached the end of the road for John Wilkes Booth and David Harold. After 10 days on the run the net had started to tighten around them, and the pair were rapidly moving closer to the infamous Garrett farm, where the final confrontation between the killers and the manhunters would take place. In this episode we will play out Booth's final days on the...

When we left our series last week in Part 3, two members of John Wilkes Booth's gang had not managed to make it out of the city following their own failed assassination attempts on the Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Meanwhile the city of Washington had fallen into chaos as public celebrations for the end of the war had turned into angry mobs. But Booth himself...

When we last left the story we had skipped back in time to meet John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators - Lewis Powell (who changed his name to Lewis Payne), David Harold, George Azerodt, and John Surratt. These men had each found their way into Booth's plans years earlier, and they had stuck with him through multiple failed attempts to kidnap the president. We will now jump back into that bloody nigh...

In this episode we are going to the trenches of World War 1, where soldiers waited in the cold and mud for the next call to battle that would likely claim their very lives. But out of one of the most grim settings in all of history there was a single moment of peace and fellowship that brought humanity back to these soldiers, if only for a single day. This is the story of the Christmas Day Truce o...

After Lincoln passed away, the country reacted with a combination of shock and grief that exploded into a furious public search to find his killer. That manhunt is going to be the focus of our final episode in the series, but this week let's move back in time a bit.  We are going to introduce you to the group of co-conspirators who surrounded John Wilkes Booth. Along with Booth himself, we explore...

In our podcast this week, we are going to take you back to the beginning of a pivotal day in American History - the tragic Good Friday in 1865, as we walk through the final day of the life of the great President Abraham Lincoln and that fateful night at Ford's Theater in April of 1865. patreon.com/historyfeels_ historyfeels1986@gmail.com  

In this episode we take a look at the recent discovery at Taposiris Magna in Egypt, and the possibility that the greatest archeological find since King Tut might be waiting in the very near future, Cleopatra's grave. It's like an ancient soap opera, filled with politics, sex, rivalries, wars, gossip, every player trying to play chess to outwit their opponents but we take a stab at trying to separa...

In 1942 with France already fallen and Nazi Germany tightening their grip on the remaining free countries of Europe, the British drew up plans for a daring operation to spy on Hitler's movement across the Mediterranean by burying six men alive, deep inside the rock of Gibraltar, with the possibility that they would never come out. In this episode we tell the story of that wild plan, hatched in the...

We left last week's episode in a dark and uncertain place, with the sports first great star Lloyd Seay killed in a dispute over sugar and the rest of the drivers heading off to fight in World War 2. In our final episode of the story we are going to discuss how stock car racing emerged out of this darkness and rose to new heights, only for NASCAR's founding members to face a new crisis over the con...

In our last episode (Part 1) we told a bit of the history of American moonshine, the drink that was known as "White Lightning" was a staple for survival on the American Frontier dating all the way back to the Revolution. After prohibition gave the whole country a taste for the liquor, a new and dangerous profession emerged as drivers were called on to transport the valuable drink from the backwood...

It's a story that NASCAR doesn't want to tell, but the sports origins got it's beginnings in the deep south, where bootleggers drove stock cars full of whiskey to evade authorities. In this next series, we will cover the interesting history of moonshine, the governments attempts to regulate and confiscate it, and the rise of one of America's most popular sports because of it. Patreon page link bel...

Part two on the Escape at Alcatraz - how did the men actually escape and detailing the evidence on theories on whether the men could have done the impossible and made it to the other side alive. To Support the research for the page.  We appreciate it! https://www.patreon.com/historyfeels_ Email address historyfeels1986@gmail.com    

In June of 1962 - three bank robbers escaped in the middle of the night from America's most notorious prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.  They were never seen again. This is the first of a two part series detailing their plan, the eventual escape, and ultimately tackling the mystery of whether or not these men made it to freedom. We will have bonus content on: https://www.patreon.com/historyfe...