pplpod
7,995 episodes — Page 12 of 160
Cochise: The Apache Leader Who Refused to Be Captured by History
Jun 19, 202618 min
Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet Who Wrote Nations but Feared Nationalism
Jun 19, 202619 min
Sam Houston: The Raven, the Republic, and the Man Who Wouldn’t Bend
Jun 19, 202619 min
Red Cloud: The Lakota Leader Who Won the War and Lost the Peace
Jun 19, 202620 min
Rani Lakshmibai: The Queen, the Siege, and the Myth of Jhansi
Jun 19, 202621 min
Quanah Parker: The Last Comanche Chief Who Turned Survival Into Strategy
Jun 19, 202621 min
Pontiac: The War Chief Behind the Red Napoleon Myth
Jun 19, 202620 min
Lu Xun: The Writer Who Tried to Wake China From the Iron House
Jun 19, 202619 min
James Bowie: The Knife, the Hustle, and the Myth of the Alamo Hero
Jun 19, 202623 min
Al Capone: The Shadow King Who Couldn’t Control the One Thing That Killed Him
Jun 19, 202623 min
Sequoyah: The Man Who Turned Talking Leaves Into Cherokee Survival
Jun 19, 202617 min
Emperor Taizong of Tang: The Usurper Who Became the Model Emperor
Jun 19, 202619 min
Emperor Wu of Han: The Empire Builder Who Nearly Destroyed His Own House
Jun 19, 202623 min
Butch Cassidy: The Gentleman Bandit Who Refused to Stay Dead
Jun 19, 202621 min
David Crockett: The Real Man Behind the King of the Wild Frontier
Jun 19, 202622 min
Daniel Boone: The Real Man Behind the Coonskin Cap Myth
Jun 19, 202625 min
Qin Shi Huang: The First Emperor Who Unified China and Couldn’t Escape Death
Jun 19, 202622 min
Chief Joseph: The Diplomat Turned Into a Mythic Warrior
Jun 19, 202620 min
Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Sold the Wild West to the World
Jun 19, 202623 min
Black Hawk: The War Leader America Defeated, Then Turned Into a Symbol
Jun 19, 202620 min
Annie Oakley: The Survivor Behind Little Sure Shot
Jun 19, 202619 min
Ray Charles: The Tragic Genius Who Invented Soul Music
Jun 17, 202647 min
James Brown: The Violent Brilliance of the Godfather of Soul
Jun 17, 202620 min
Shivaji: Tiger Claws and the Founding of the Maratha Empire
Jun 17, 20261h 0m
Themistocles: The Man Who Saved Athens Then Defected to Persia
Jun 17, 202621 min
Ashurbanipal: The Scholarly Butcher of the Assyrian Empire
Jun 17, 202620 min
Seneca: The Billionaire Stoic Behind Nero's Throne
Jun 17, 202621 min
Theodora: The Actress Who Ruled the Byzantine Empire
Jun 17, 202622 min
Nefertiti: The Queen Who May Have Ruled Egypt as King
Jun 17, 202619 min
Sargon of Akkad: The Cupbearer Who Built the World's First Empire
Jun 17, 202619 min
Nebuchadnezzar II: The Tyrant and Architect Who Built Babylon
Jun 17, 202623 min
Basil II: The Paranoid Emperor Who Blinded 15,000 Bulgarians
Jun 17, 202620 min
Tacitus: The Historian Who Survived by Staying Silent
Jun 17, 202618 min
Sophocles: The Scandalous General and Greatest Playwright of Athens
Jun 17, 202620 min
Sulla: The Dictator Who Wrote Caesar's Bloody Playbook
Jun 17, 202621 min
The Man Who Invented Modern Football
Jun 17, 202656 min
Marcus Brutus: The Brutal Reality Behind the Noble Assassin
Jun 17, 202622 min
Hammurabi: The Micromanager Behind History's Most Famous Law Code
Jun 17, 202623 min
Aristophanes: The Comedian Who Helped Kill Socrates
Jun 17, 202621 min
Bjorn Borg: The Breaking of the Ice Borg
Jun 17, 202623 min
Crassus: The Billionaire Who Tried to Buy Rome
Jun 17, 202624 min
Harun al-Rashid: The Caliph Behind Baghdad's Golden Age
Jun 17, 202628 min
Belisarius: The Greatest General the Emperor Feared
Jun 17, 202624 min
Herodotus: The Father of History and the Father of Lies
Jun 17, 202619 min
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Filmmaker Who Paid for His Art With His Life
Jun 17, 202621 min
Charles Martel: The Warrior Who Became The Hammer of Europe
Jun 17, 202622 min
Al Pacino: How Hollywood's Greatest Actor Weaponized His Anxiety
Jun 17, 202619 min
Aeschylus: The Soldier-Playwright Who Invented Tragedy
Jun 17, 202619 min
Imhotep: The Architect Who Became a God of Medicine
Jun 17, 202616 min
Gaius Marius: The General Who Broke the Roman Republic
Jun 17, 202622 min