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2024-03-25

  EPISODE 105: Rationalizing Evil in El Salvador

I am sorry to be taking you on this dark journey, but I strongly feel this is an important story that everyone should know. Over the years, I've tackled some heavy topics. This is definitely one of the heaviest. This episode covers some of the things t...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2024-02-13

  EPISODE 104: The Saint and the Death Squads

This is a story about what happened in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s, and the role that democratic as well as republican administrations played in this tale. As much as humanly possible, I’ll try to let the facts speak for themselves and not injec...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2024-01-15

  [RERUN] EPISODE 65: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3): A River of Death

“Everywhere in southern Anhui they are eating people.” — Zeng Guofan“Infants but recently born were torn from their mother’s breasts, and disemboweled before their faces. Young strong men were disemboweled, mutilated, and the parts cut off thrust into ...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-12-04

  [RERUN] EPISODE 64: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 2): Jesus’ Chinese Younger Brother

“Is not this insurgent movement truly wonderful? These rebels keep Sabbath as we do, they pray to God daily, they read the Scriptures, they break the idols, and they long for the time when, instead of those heathen temples, they shall have Christian ch...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-11-20

  [RERUN] EPISODE 63: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1): Drug Dealers and Visionaries

“The entire story of the Taiping Rebellion might be told, from one perspective, as the rage of a failed exam candidate writ large.” — Stephen Platt“They may not intend to harm others on purpose, but the fact remains that they are so obsessed with mater...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-11-06

  EPISODE 103: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 2)

“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.” — Miyamoto MusashiEver since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by listeners. Over the years, I received hundreds of messages asking me to cover the...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-10-09

  EPISODE 102: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 1)

“All warfare is based on deception.” — Sun Tzu Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by listeners. Over the years, I received hundreds of messages asking me to cover the life of Miyamoto Musashi. That ...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-09-11

  EPISODE 101: The History Behind Killers of the Flower Moon

“But the years of peace and plenty was not to last. Slowly the days turned sour and the watchful nights closed in. Thrór's love of gold grown too fierce and sickness had begun to grow within him. It was a sickness of the mind. And where sickness thrive...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-08-14

  [RERUN] EPISODE 62: Plagues, Mystery and Dancing

“The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them.  A doctor must be a traveler… Knowledge is experience.” — Paracelsus“They in...
  Daniele Bolelli author
2023-07-03

  [RERUN] EPISODE 61: Raiders in the Night

“We are all ghosts now. But once we were men.” — Anonymous POW from Cabanatuan camp“Never in history had the United States Army been called on to rescue such a large number of POWs from so deep in enemy territory.” — William Breuer“We were in the best ...
  Daniele Bolelli author