Stacy Schiff is one of America's most acclaimed historians and biographers. Her book The Witches is a detailed, almost forensic, history of the Salem witch trials on 1692. She very kindly came on the podcast to talk about it and she is every bit as good a storyteller in person as you would imagine from reading the book. I found her book and our conversation really quite troubling in what it says about our ability to tell lies from fiction. In particular even the accused seemed confused about their own guilt. I hope to revisit the theme in future podcasts but for now I think this is one of the most fascinating episodes to date. I hope you enjoy it!
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
A nuclear exchange
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
The Last Emperor of Mexico with Edward Shawcross
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
The Silver Way
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
Rome against Persia - their final battle
Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
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