The Stories We Forgot | History with the Hursts copertina

The Stories We Forgot | History with the Hursts

The Stories We Forgot | History with the Hursts

Di: Andrew and Pearl Hurst
Ascolta gratuitamente

3 mesi a soli 0,99 €/mese

Dopo 3 mesi, 9,99 €/mese. Si applicano termini e condizioni.

A proposito di questo titolo

 The Stories We Forgot is the history podcast for non-historians. Join husband and wife team, AJ and Pearl Hurst, as they tell stories from history ranging from the obscure to the unheard of. AJ and Pearl Hurst have been married since 2004 and are currently raising 4 amazing children in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, they have lived in Virginia since 2017. AJ and Pearl's hobbies include, feeding their children (again), trying to homeschool their kids, pretending to be farmers, spending time with friends, and waiting for the kids to go to bed so they can Netflix and chill. The Stories We Forgot podcast started originally because Pearl thought it sounded like a cool name for a podcast and was hoping that someone would start one like it. After a month or two of simultaneously wishing someone would make that podcast and wishing she was hosting her own podcast so she could pretend to be a radio host like Frasier Crane, Pearl asked her amazing and accommodating husband to host the show with her. All her favorite podcasts have two hosts and she felt like the conversation and banter would be interesting between two nerds who have been married a decent amount of time. The Stories We Forgot is a weekly podcast featuring true stories from history that we...forgot. AJ and Pearl will cover the lives of people from history and events from history because even though they love history, they aren't history professors and feel like most people only have a basic grasp on all of history at best. The Stories We Forgot will primarily focus on stories from American history (since that's where it was founded). However, other stories from world history will pop up from time to time. AJ and Pearl will cover stories mostly from the last two hundred plus years of history but occasionally will sprinkle in older stories because those tend to be even more...forgotten. AJ and Pearl make no claims at accuracy. You have a smart phone. If you're curious about a story, feel free to look it up yourself because we all have access to the same internet. They'll be pulling from google search results to give you the "broad strokes" about a story. Sometimes google is wrong, you know? Also, there are so many interpretations to any event in history. It's very possible that you won't agree with our interpretation of an event. Feel free to hit us up on Twitter (@TSWF_Podcast) with all your thoughts. If they're entertaining enough, AJ and Pearl will even talk about them on the podcast.© 2024 The Stories We Forgot | History with the Hursts Genitorialità e famiglie Mondiale Relazioni Scienze sociali
Episodi
  • The One-Eyed Pilot and the Tongan Castaways

    The One-Eyed Pilot and the Tongan Castaways
    Jul 24 2021

    Today we're going back to 1965 to meet 6 boys from Tonga who survived life on a deserted island. They didn't just survive either; they raised wild chickens, planted crops, wrote songs, and a comfortable island life for themselves--for 15 months. 
    Plus, we'll find out the ill-fated end of the first man to fly around the earth. 

    Sources:

    • https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adky9/shipwrecked-on-uninhabited-desert-island
    • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
    • https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018746636/the-true-story-of-six-tongan-teenage-castaways-in-1965
    Support the show
    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    41 min
  • Paul Revere's Protégé and the First Fastest Woman in the World

    Paul Revere's Protégé and the First Fastest Woman in the World
    Jul 17 2021

    Join us on the pod today as we tell you about the stories of two amazing women in American history. 
    You'll learn about the second Paul Revere who rode her horse all through the night for over 40 miles which is more than three times further than Revere rode that one night in history. Her name was Syil Ludington and she was just 17 years old. 
    Our next story is all about a girl who ran to catch a train and caught the eye of her school's track coach. The only problem? It was 1926 and girls didn't run track. Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson was too fast to ignore and quickly became the fastest woman in the world at the 1928 Olympic Games. Her story doesn't end there though, because she had another Olympic run in her future but not before battling incredible odds to get there. 

    Sources: 

    • https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/12/08/betty-robinson-fire-on-the-track
    • https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/motivation/a26747820/who-is-betty-robinson/
    • https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/sybil-ludington
    • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sybil-Ludington
    Support the show
    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    35 min
  • The St. Francis Dam Disaster and the Upside of Red Tape.

    The St. Francis Dam Disaster and the Upside of Red Tape.
    Jul 9 2021

    We're Ba-aack! Season 2 of The Stories We Forgot kicks off with a good old fashioned tragedy. Listen you guys; it's history, and history shapes the future. If you want to understand more about the world we live in, it helps to know how we got here. Join husband and wife team, AJ and Pearl Hurst as they cover the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster in 1928, and learn why we've all but forgotten this story today.

    Sources:

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/occasions-i-envy-dead-st-francis-dam-disaster-180954543/ 
    • https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-stfrancis-dam-retrospective-20160319-story.html
    • https://www.britannica.com/event/St-Francis-Dam-disaster
    • https://myfavoritemurder.com/228-the-season-of-the-abyss/


    Support the show
    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    39 min
Ancora nessuna recensione