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Past Lives

Patrick Wyman

History is built by people like you, and Past Lives is here to bring their stories to life. Every week, we’ll focus on the lived experiences of real people in the past, from the Stone Age to the near-present. Peasants, laborers, artisans, merchants, soldiers, and the enslaved are far too often overlooked in favor of kings, generals, and politicians; not here. On Past Lives, we keep the focus where it belongs: on the real people who populate our shared past. By understanding them, we can strive to better understand ourselves. These people were us, and we are them. They mattered, and so do you.

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Episodi

52 episodi

  1. Bodily Experiences: Conclusion 26:48
  2. The Life and Death of a Soldier in the Wars of the Roses (Towton 16) 34:18
  3. Interview: Professor Kyle Harper on Mass Extinction and the Future of Life 40:21
  4. Selling Books from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century: Interview with Professor Andrew Pettegree 37:21
  5. Leprosy, Plague, and Life in Anglo-Saxon England 26:39
  6. The Man with a Knife for a Hand (Lombard Italy, Late 6th Century) 30:37
  7. Xin Zhui, the Best-Preserved Mummy of All Time 25:36
  8. How Do You Get Bitten by a Lion in Roman York? 28:31
  9. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World 28:38
  10. Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age 29:02
  11. Professor Peter Mancall on Understanding Colonial America 52:35
  12. Tollund Man 29:10
  13. Bog Bodies 27:32
  14. The Human Sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty 28:51
  15. Interview: James Romm - Since You’re Mortal: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays 30:53
  16. The Tomb of Fu Hao and the Rise of the Shang Dynasty 28:31
  17. Interview: Professor Thomas Asbridge on the Black Death 40:31
  18. The Workers of Deir el-Medina 30:16
  19. Ancient Egypt's Underclass 30:05
  20. Interview: Shannon Chakraborty and Historical Fantasy 35:39
  21. Seqenenre Tao 29:35
  22. A Quick Guide to Ancient Egypt 31:26
  23. The Princess of Xiaohe 28:02
  24. Interview: Producer, Writer, and Director Tim Haines on Surviving Earth and Bringing the Distant Past to Life 29:20
  25. Xinjiang: The Crossroads of Eurasia 26:59
  26. The Corps of Discovery Wasn't Just Lewis and Clark: Interview with Craig Fehrman 37:46
  27. Gebelein Man and the Roots of Ancient Egypt 30:18
  28. Ötzi the Iceman 29:00
  29. The Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg 27:54
  30. Audiobook Chapter: Lost Worlds 50:38
  31. The Ancient One/Kennwick Man (North America, 8,500 Years Ago) 25:00
  32. Anzick-1 (North America, 13,000 Years Ago) 28:29
  33. Introducing Season 2: Bodily Experiences 23:28
  34. Recommended Listen: History Daily 33:22
  35. Why Slavery Matters 20:29
  36. Matilda McCrear, the Clotilda, and the Last Survivors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 28:19
  37. Olaudah Equiano's Atlantic World 29:18
  38. Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America (18th Century) 25:13
  39. Maddalena, the Medici, and Slavery in the Renaissance (Florence, 15th century) 26:46
  40. Sultan Baybars (Mamluk, 13th Century) 27:34
  41. Freedmen, Work, and Race in Colonial Philadelphia: Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers 42:06
  42. Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire 26:50
  43. Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, Second Century AD) 26:40
  44. Eurysaces’ Bakers and the Hell of Roman Industry 25:49
  45. Crixus: Gladiators, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resisting Slavery 26:54
  46. Terence, Slavery, and Ancient Rome's First Literature 25:48
  47. Neaira (Prostitute, Corinth and Athens, 4th Century BC) 26:26
  48. Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Wealth of Classical Athens 25:41
  49. Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) 24:22
  50. On Slavery 19:34