To wrap up our series on Orphism and its connections to Hellenistic Iran, it’s time to discuss Zurvan, the Zoroastrian yazata of Time, and his growing cult in the Hellenistic Age.
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America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:
Coleman – The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History
Shewmaker – Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase
Polk – Inaugural Address
Polk – First Annual Message to Congress
Vancouver – A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America
Wilkes – Map of the Oregon Territory
Oregon Treaty, 1846
Treaty of Washington, 1871
The Ancient Greeks had many ideas about the origins of the universe and humanity over the centuries. The best known is probably Hesiod’s Theogony, but the Orphics developed many of their own versions of the story. Today, we explore some of those competing ideas about the dawn of Time.
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America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.
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Jervey and Huber – The Creole Affair
Jones – The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations
National Archives – The Amistad Case
Rediker – The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Sorrell and Berry – This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People
We’re taking a break from the historical narrative to focus on a mythological one: the life and times of Orpheus the Bard, from his many origin stories to the travels of the Argonauts to his eventual journey to the underworld.
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Like any good king, Antiochus I Soter had a royal family, and as his reign comes to an end, it’s time to talk about them, from his brother in Anatolia to troublesome sons and wide ranging in-laws. He’s in his Seleucid Era.
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America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides.
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Guillet – The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada
Bonthius – The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Ducharme – Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution
Forcese – Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War
Kilbourn – The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada
Kinchen – The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters
Read – The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After
Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography
Waxman – The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense
After losing a large piece of the eastern empire to Chandragupta Maurya, the Seleucids didn’t just ignore their eastern neighbors. In the later decades of Seleucus’ reign, Megasthenes established diplomatic ties between the two eastern kingdoms. In the generations that followed, diplomacy and trade helped to stabilize both the Maurya and the Seleucids.
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America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 2, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Aroostook War, a conflict between the United States, British New Brunswick, and the forces of nature.
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Aroostook War Songs:
Greenwood & Burns – Aroostook War Fighting Song
Wallace House – The Soldier Song (Aroostook War)
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Campbell and Campbell – The Aroostook War of 1839
Meander Maine – The Pork and Beans War
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