Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History

 Today on Murderhobos, the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. By the time of his violent death at twenty-five, he had shot down eighty aircraft out of the sky, often killing the pilot and crew as a result. Fighter pilots were by national propaganda turned into figures of chivalry, of the return of knightly battle to the faceless industrial infantry war. Was the war he waged a heroic throwback to m...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Douglas Haig. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

 Today on Murderhobos: Douglas Haig, the chief of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Haig was a dashing figure in his youth, an up-and-comer in the military elite who has come to symbolically represent the incompetence and apathy of high command. But was Douglas Haig a butcher, or did the war he fought simply take on an appalling life of its own? Submit questions to murderhobo...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about King Philip, Tecumseh, and Crazy Horse. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Crazy Horse. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Today on Murderhobos: Crazy Horse, the Lakota Warrior whose leadership against the US Army in the 1870s culminated in one of the most spectacular military victories of the century. He was a ferocious fighter on the battlefield, but at home he was a quiet, generous and spiritually sensitive man who left an impression of singularness oddness to all who knew him. His untimely death in 1877 marked the...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Tecumseh. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Today on Murderhobos: Tecumseh. The Shawnee diplomat, strategist and war chief, who built with his brother a powerful tribal confederacy centered around opposition to the expanding United States. Tecumseh's famous charisma and skillful leadership in the War of 1812 challenged racist assumptions of Indian manhood, American superiority, and came painfully close to derailing U.S. dominance of North A...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about King Philip. Sorry for the delay!   Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon   Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos   Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Today on Murderhobos: King Philip. A Wampanoag Sachem, whose name became synonymous with a bloody, horrific, war that nearly destroyed the English colonies of New England. The effectiveness of the Wampanoag and allied campaign led surviving colonists to construct a popular public memory of Philip as a bloodthirsty monster: the brutal, ugly leader, of a race of so-called savages. But Philip was a r...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about PIRATES.   Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon   Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos   Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Jean Lafitte.   Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon   Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos   Submit questions: murderhobospodcast@gmail.com

Today on Murderhobos: Jean Lafitte. A pirate, smuggler, and American hero of the War of 1812. Together with his brother Pierre, he became one of the most popular folk heroes of the American South in the 19th century, a popularity which waned over the course of the century to his relative obscurity today. What can his ambitious diverse criminal career show us about crime, piracy, slavery, and revol...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Edward Thatch, Teach, Taych, Tack, whatever you wanna call him.   Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon   Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos

Today on Murderhobos, Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard. Possibly the most famous pirate in history. Know primarily for his beard and his reputation for brutality and violence, he is in every way the pop culture exemplar of the golden age of piracy  But his real life and violent death are a fascinating case study for the reality of piracy, shipboard life, and class conflict in the early decades of th...

Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Henry Morgan: Pirate, Pirate Hunter, and Professional Alcoholic, in that order.   The podcast episode Adam talks about with the costumer from Pirates of the Carribean: https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com/penny-rose-costume-designer   A clip from Treasure Island (1950), where Robert Newton basically invented the "pirate...

Today on Murderhobos, Captain Henry Morgan: a Jamacian planter, freebooter, and king of the so-called bretheren of the coast, whose brutal raids on Spanish colonies led to his knighthood and his position as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. He was by fortune or chance tied to Jamaica at a critical time in its history, and was in many ways the architect of western colonialism in the Carribean. Plus t...

The first Q&A episode of Season 2! Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Colonel Thomas Monstery.   Adam's lecture on fencing in the 19th Century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGwHVDdRFgc&ab_channel=LansingLongswordGuild   Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhobospatreon   Make a one-time donation to the show:  bit.ly/donatetomurderhobos

Today on Murderhobos, Colonel Thomas Monstery: master fencer, military adventurer, filbuster, sailor and pulp novellist. What does his fiction have to do with his filibustering, and how does that explore the era of imperialism in which he lived, fought, and especially, wrote?  Submit questions to murderhobospodcast@gmail.com by September 9th 2025. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: bit.ly/murderhob...

We're back! Our second season begins next week, on 9/2.

Surprise! We know it's been a while but we're back with a special conversation to prepare you for Season 2, which'll be out before you know it. This week, a conversation between Adam and fencing instructor and historian Arik Mendelevitz. Arik recently published "Bolognese Longsword for the Modern Practitioner," a book offering an introduction to the beautiful and oft-forgotten tradition of Bologne...

Today on Murderhobos, another interim episode! This week, part 2 of our crossover episode with the excellent history podcast Well Behaved Women , hosted by Lauren Schill and Hannah Moses. The gang heads back to the Old West to take a closer look at Calamity Jane, sharpshooter, storyteller, and friend of Wild Bill Hickok. We're also excited to announce that Season 2 is officially in the swing of pr...

Today on Murderhobos, another interim episode! This week, a crossover episode with the excellent history podcast Well Behaved Women , hosted by Lauren Schill and Hannah Moses. The gang heads back to the Old West to take a closer look at Calamity Jane, sharpshooter, storyteller, and friend of Wild Bill Hickok. We're also excited to announce that Season 2 is officially in the swing of production, wi...

Today on Murderhobos, another interim episode to slake your bloodthirst for season two. (Back, fiends!) This week, an interview Adam did with Dr. Stuart Ellis-Gorman for his podcast "Let's Talk About Crossbows" back in February. Adam and Stuart talk Gotz von Berlichingen, late medieval Germany, and all things crossbow and crossbow-related. More interim episodes are on the way, and we hope to launc...

Today on Murderhobos, our first guest episode! *Gasps, oohs and ahs* We're joined by fantasy author, friend of the show, and noted trans historian Alina Boyden to discuss transness in history. We talk about Lia De Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon, one of the most famous trans women in history, and a kickass swordswoman. We also talk about the way academic historians often fail to recognize trans exp...