Fire Aboard HMS Queen Charlotte

From The History Guy. A terrifying tale from the Age of Sail. The website of the Penobscot maritime museum was likely being deliberately understated when they wrote: “As one can imagine, wooden ships and fire do not make for a good day at sea.” The fire aboard HMS Queen Charlotte is history that deserves to…

Best of Tanks

From The History Guy. From the History Guy Vaults, five episodes about armored vehicles. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy! 00:00 – Tiger 131 and the Battle at Guriat el Atach 13:26 – Oddball Tanks: Extemporized Armored Fighting Vehicles 26:40 – Mephisto and the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux 38:58 – The 1943 Battle of…

Making Maine

From The History Guy. It is March 13, and 346 years ago today the Massachusetts bay colony made a novel purchase. Boston Magazine wrote in 2014: “On March 13, 1677, the imperial dreams of Massachusetts came to fruition. For on that day, our colony bought Maine for £1,250 sterling.” Check out our new community for…

The Journeys of Ibn Battuta

From The History Guy. A half century after Marco Polo’s journey, a Muslim scholar little known here in the west traveled more than four times as far. Like Marco Polo, the record of his journey provides in some cases the only remaining written account of exotic places and people. Check out our new community for…

Saturday Morning Cartoons

From The History Guy. Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom from school, and responsibilities. They represented the innocence of youth. We laughed, we cheered, we absorbed basic lessons about friendship, and heroism, and right and wrong. And yet, it seems, it was another quaint ritual of a forgotten time, slowly being relegated to forgotten history. Check…

The History Guy Vaults: Best of Invention

From The History Guy. Four classic The History Guy episodes about inventions that changed the world. 00:00 – Horsepower: James Watt and the Transition from Horse to Steam 11:32 – The Plastic Revolution: Celluloid 25:58 – The Forgotten History of Sewing Machines 38:40 – Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver Check out our…

Hacking: An Early History

From The History Guy. In 2020 Cybercrime magazine wrote that “If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China.” Insider magazine noted in 2017 that Billionaire Warren Buffet “sees…

Mustard: A Spicy History

From The History Guy. In 2018 The Atlantic observed “For some Americans, a trip to the ballpark isn’t complete without the bright-yellow squiggle of French’s mustard atop a hot dog… Yet few realize that this condiment has been equally essential—maybe more so—for the past 6,000 years." Check out our new community for fans and supporters!…

Loco-Focos and the 1837 New York Flour Riot

From The History Guy. The “Flour riot” is not as well known as more destructive New York City riots of the nineteenth century like the Astor Place riots or the draft riots, but some of the story- from concern over high prices of food to accusations of fake news, to inflammatory speeches, seem surprisingly familiar…

Almost Not History: Darwin and HMS Beagle

From The History Guy. February 12 represents the 214th birthday of Charles Darwin, a scientist whose ideas transformed human understanding of the natural world, and undoubtedly one of the most influential scientists in history. But that history may have been different, as Dawrin’s career altering voyage aboard HMS Beagle almost didn’t happen. Join the Paleontological…

The 1835 Assassination Attempt on Andrew Jackson

From The History Guy. It is January 30th, and 188 years ago today the nation was shocked by the first known assassination attempt on a sitting president of the United States. The attempt by Richard Lawrence on the life of President Andrew Jackson was, in itself, high drama, and his trial one of great attention.…

The Legend of Tarzan

From The History Guy. The film Tarzan of the Apes was released 105 years ago in 1918. The film represented significant milestones in the film industry, and was emblematic of its times. What’s more, it represents the enduring popularity of a fiction icon that, some say, might actually have been based on a real person.…

Pottery and Revolution

From The History Guy. Click this link to make some cash for giving your opinion! https://www.inflcr.co/SHFo7 Thanks YouGov for sponsoring! There were “rebellious” activities in colonial America well before the French and Indian War and the series of governmental acts that would eventually culminate in the American Revolution. The history of the ‘poor potter’ of…

Best of the History Guy: Weird Crime

From The History Guy. From the vaults, five classic episodes of the History Guy with weird crimes and criminals. 00:00 – Tommy Fitz’s Perfect Landings 08:30 – The Fabulous Fraud from Brooklyn 14:19 – Georg Gärtner, the last German POW in America. 27:23 – Daniel Sickles’ Temporary Insanity 39:50 – Soapy Smith: A Very Bad…