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History Briefs

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Ep: 010 This week Brad Shreve shares information some people won't like, and some people will like. Plus, he makes a recommendation. Queer Writers of Crime WebsiteDirect link to Queer Writers of Crime newsletter sign up.Brad's recommendation: 
Ep: 009    In 2016, people around the world people heard the news of those killed by a shooter in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.   Over 40 years earlier, 32 people lost their lives in a fire at another bar popular with the LGBTQ community.  Li
Ep: 008 The brothel known as the Chicken Ranch, sat between Houston and Austin for 60 years and was no secret. Trouble brewed when the house of ill-repute had the misfortune of being the target of a TV news sensationalist giving the Governor no
Ep: 007 After Alfred Nobel invented dynamite large shipments of them were sold around the world to companies and for building infrastructure., which kept him busy opening new factories and laboratories. In 1871, on the Ardeer Peninsula in Scotl
Ep: 006  Alfred Nobel's life up until he became a young adult is a rag to riches, to rag, to riches story.  That rollercoaster ended when he invented dynamite in 1866 and he became one of the wealthiest men of his time. Why was Nobel almost obs
Ep: 005 In 1850, a California Gold Rush boom town, angered by tighting government controls from the new state, and a tax imposed on miners, wrote a formal declaration secceeding from the union and founded The Great Republic of California. The s
Ep: 004 In 1883 a devastating tornado hit Rochester, Minnesota  united a Franciscan school administrator and an agnostic doctor. The hard work of the sisters who worked as teachers at the school gave William Worrall Mayo no choice but to take o
Ep: 003  In WWII, After the Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo, The Japanese Planned a Unique Way to Get Even.  The Fu-Go ProjectMore information Can Be Found At japaneseballoonbombs.comHistory Briefs Website: historybriefs.comSign up for the History Br
Ep: 002 The Combat Zone, Boston's adult entertainment district, was given its moniker by the Boston Daily Record. "An adult Disneyland" is how it was described by the Wall Street Journal. In this episode you'll learn how an elegant neighborhood
Ep: 001 Following the Civil War after the Reconstruction era, many former slaves had grown disillusioned over integration and decided their only hope for freedom was to establish their own communities. In 1879, 15,000 African-American's moved t
Ep: 007 After Alfred Nobel invented dynamite large shipments of them were sold around the world to companies and for building infrastructure., which kept him busy opening new factories and laboratories. In 1871, on the Ardeer Peninsula in Scotl
Ep: 006  Alfred Nobel's life up until he became a young adult is a rag to riches, to rag, to riches story.  That rollercoaster ended when he invented dynamite in 1866 and he became one of the wealthiest men of his time. Why was Nobel almost obs
Ep: 005 In 1850, a California Gold Rush boom town, angered by tighting government controls from the new state, and a tax imposed on miners, wrote a formal declaration secceeding from the union and founded The Great Republic of California. The s
Ep: 004 In 1883 a devastating tornado hit Rochester, Minnesota united a Franciscan school administrator and an agnostic doctor. The hard work of the sisters who worked as teachers at the school gave William Worrall Mayo no choice but to take ov
Ep: 003  In WWII, After the Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo, The Japanese Planned a Unique Way to Get Even.  The Fu-Go Project More information Can Be Found At japaneseballoonbombs.comCheck out Brad's current podcast Queer We Are:queerweare.comYou ca
Ep: 002 The Combat Zone, Boston's adult entertainment district, was given its moniker by the Boston Daily Record. "An adult Disneyland" is how it was described by the Wall Street Journal. In this episode you'll learn how an elegant neighborhood
Ep: 01. Nicodemus is the oldest and only remaining all-African American settlement west of the Mississippi River. Angela Bates si the Executive Director of the Nicodemus Historical Society and she joins Brad to discuss the events which led to t
Each week History briefs serves bits of history you may know very little bit about or not at all presented each week in 20 minutes or less.  Sometimes dramatic. Sometimes shocking. Sometimes just plain silly.  You never know what you're going t
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