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The Berlin Wall is perhaps modern history’s most infamous edifice. The Berlin Wall: A World Divided is more than just the story of brick, concrete, and barbed wire. It’s the story of a city, a country, and a world - all of them divided. To hear how the Berlin Wall exemplified this division is to gain insights into a central tension of world history: between the human drive for freedom and the political will that would control and repress that drive.

In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound and included "Come Together", "Something", and "Here Comes the Sun", which all emerged as classics. Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes listeners back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studios, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk.

George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and enduring ways.

In the debut episode of Discover With Marvyn, we sit down with filmmaker, podcaster, and YouTube creative Laurence McKenna. Known for his work behind the camera and his insightful takes on football, culture, and media, Laurence opens up about his journey of self-discovery, the highs and lows of creativity, and how he’s finding himself again.From navigating the pressures of public life to redefining success on his own terms, this conversation delves into mental clarity, purpose, and the creative process. Whether you're a fan of Laurence’s work or simply looking for an honest and ...

A new podcast hosted by Harrison Boon having the uncomfortable and controversial conversations needed in todays world. Shedding light on the issues we face and trying to bring a positive message with each guest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities enriched European and US economies; contributed to the material and monetary wealth of the nation's founding fathers, other early European immigrants, and their descendants; and bolstered the wealth of present-day companies founded during the American slave era.

Storytelling In The Tropics with Allison Harrison is a podcast about the art, business and impact of storytelling in the lives of everyday people based in the island nation of Jamaica.

Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged. Mark Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

During the American Civil War, he served the Union for most of the war as a colonel and on February 14, 1865 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from January 23, 1865. Afterwards, he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana but was later elected to the U.S. Senate by the Indiana legislature.

Harrison's Inaugural address was also his last, coming just weeks before he succumbed to pneumonia. In it he memorializes America's special place in the world while describing how its management by Congress and the government can solve existing problems.

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm and Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. The good times ground to a terrifying halt in the early morning hours of April 7, 1990. A brutal attack - an apparent hate crime - on the owner Gerald Jackson forever altered the lives of all involved.

Följ med Sveriges främsta historiker på en tur genom världshistorien! Professor Dick Harrison är en av Sveriges ledande historiska profiler. I den nya podcasten Harrisons dramatiska historia samtalar han med sin hustru Katarina Harrison Lindbergh, även hon historiker och författare. Det är personligt och inbjudande, kunnigt och kunskapsrikt, lättsamt men aldrig lättviktigt. De två programledarna vägleder lyssnaren genom världshistorien, med väl valda nedslag. Det är kunskap och fakta, återgivet med berättarglädje och engagemang. Här ges plats för djupdykningar i enskilda...

Ancient Art and Ritual is a book by Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), who was a student of anthropology and a classical scholar by training. The book shows how mankind has always used rituals to celebrate new life or rites of passage and examines the way that these rituals evolved into art forms. The author also shows how rituals and rites of passage developed into visual and dramatic art, dance, and sculpture as a way of expressing the religious urge. She identifies intense emotional energy as the driving force behind all artistic expression.

A deep dive into the remarkable career of Harrison Butker, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker who has become one of the most clutch performers in NFL history, from his high school days to his Super Bowl heroics.

When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as ‘hostages to fortune', the little-known garrison on Australia's tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the outside, and no means of escape. Most are captured and killed in the sinking of the prison ship Montevideo Maru, which remains Australia's worst sea disaster. But the surviving soldiers and nurses carry on.

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness...

Benjamin Harrison, the “Centennial President,” failed to achieve many of his goals (for instance, he was unable to secure passage of federal leg­islation to ensure public school education and voting rights for African Americans in the South). Yet he successfully pressed Congress to pass the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to deal with the growing threat posed by cor­porate trusts and monopolies.

In Book 4, titled Cardinal Wolsey, the saga deepens as we explore the tumultuous events surrounding Henry VIIIs controversial decision to replace Catherine of Aragon with the enchanting Anne Boleyn. As Henry pursues Anne, we encounter a tapestry of other romances, including the forbidden love between the Earl of Surrey and Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a pairing that Henry vehemently opposes. Complications arise as Thomas Wyat, enamored with Anne himself, and Cardinal Wolsey, who cunningly employs the mysterious maiden Mabel Lyndwood to divert Henry‚s affections, clash with the king‚s desires...

Book 6 - Jane Seymour delves into the tumultuous events that led to Henry VIIIs controversial decision to replace Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. As Henry ardently pursues Boleyn, the narrative also unfolds the stories of other couples, including the Earl of Surrey and Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, whose union faces Henrys disapproval. Tensions rise as figures like Thomas Wyat, who desires Boleyn for himself, and Cardinal Wolsey, who cunningly employs the enigmatic Mabel Lyndwood to distract Henry, challenge the Kings ambitions. Interwoven with the intrigues of the royal court ...