125.2: Ask Me Anything Again… Again

You, the listeners of this very podcast, are phenomenal, thoughtful, inquisitive people. So I have done my very best to answer your many, many questions about the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and myself.
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History of the Celts
r/AskHistorians post about supply lines
Patreon RSS feed instructions
Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic
The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols
Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

125.1: Ask Me Anything Again

You, the listeners of this very podcast, are phenomenal, thoughtful, inquisitive people. So I have done my very best to answer your many, many questions about the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and myself.
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History of the Celts
r/AskHistorians post about supply lines
Patreon RSS feed instructions
Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic
The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols
Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

ASW 04: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 2

Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

ASW 03: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 1

Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

122: Alexander in Love

Marriage of Alexander and Roxane, Il Sodoma c. 1517

Alexander the Great had many relationships, both romantic and familial. From mother and father, Olympias and Philip, to a vast array of step-mothers and siblings to at least four romantic and sexual partners, the Macedonian royal family was as vast as it was confusing and controversial.
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ASW: America’s Very First War, Part 1

Map of Georgia, its rivers, and its major cities with the Oconee River Basin highlighted (L)

Map of the Oconee Basin with greater detail to show local creeks (R).
Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For the very first episode, Trevor is joined by Asha (@HerboAnarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country

121: The Conquests to Come

An Arab tribute delegation depicted at Persepolis via Wikimedia

In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was preparing for future campaigns. Some sources say that Alexander wanted to defeat Carthage. Others say Alexander planned to attack Rome, but the most likely candidate was actually Alexander’s planned Arabian campaign.
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