Battlecast

Before The Battle of Lexington and Concord many thoughtful commentators, in both England a... more

The Guangxi Massacre was the largest documented case of mass cannibalism in human history.... more

Monaco is a nation smaller than one square mile but filled with more wealth per capita tha... more

The Battle of Pearl Harbor was one of the most important events in United States – a... more

The Battle of Pearl Harbor: a day that lived in infamy. Thousands of American servicemen w... more

In this concluding episode of the definitive podcast history of torture, the focus is on i... more

American torture. For years, philosophers, jurists, and legal theorists struggled with Ame... more

This is a history of torture on the North American continent, including Native American, C... more

The Cambodian Genocide was a second holocaust. Approximately 1.6 million human beings were... more

The Soviet punitive system was the heir of literally hundreds of years of secret police in... more

The Inquisition: it’s a byword for tyranny in much of the Western world – espe... more

This is part two of an ongoing series providing an exhaustive history of torture. All form... more

“Torture was legal, morally accepted, and commonplace in most ancient, medieval, and... more

The Battle of Takur Ghar, also known as the Battle of Robert’s Ridge, was one of the... more

Thousands of drone strikes have killed tens of thousands of targets since the introduction... more

A man is sitting on his porch before he suddenly geysers upward, somersaulting through the... more

The Battle of Hamburger Hill was one of the most famous battles of the Vietnam War. Almost... more

Hamburger Hill is one of the most famous battles from the Vietnam War. This is the complet... more

Hamburger Hill. It’s a battle made famous by the 1987 film with the same name. But t... more

Mass suicide. It’s a rare event, something unique, like an uncommonly beautiful woma... more

Anarchy. Cannibalism. Disorder. These are adjectives, empty words, that we use to try, how... more

This podcast is a complete history of violence in the small African nation of Liberia. Thi... more

In the 1820s, a small number of freed Black Americans settled in West Africa. They called ... more

The Battle of New Market took place on May 15, 1864 and has been made famous in numerous f... more

The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was one of the most important battles of the American Civ... more

In this podcast history of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, Dr. Luke Wolf recounts the ep... more

It was Christmas Day, 1864 when one of the largest armadas ever assembled by mankind began... more