Historaholics Podcast

This week C.J. is joined by Lacey Jane, a Madison-based artist whose work can  be found on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/laceyjanesartexpressions) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/laceyjanesdesigns/). They discuss their recent trip to Taliesin and the murder of Mamah, her two children, and four other people, at the hands of Julian Carlton.

This week C.J. keeps it short by talking about more ancient poetry by discussing Greek poetry, including some of the works of Alkman, Anakreon, Archilochos, and Homer.

This week C.J. reads and discusses some selections from the Orphic Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek poetry ascribed to Orpheus, a legendary hero.

This week C.J. talks about the incident in the House of Commons that led to James Tilly Matthews' incarceration at Bedlam.

This week C.J. Talks about ancient poetry, including an Egyptian poem called the Cannibal Hymn, a Babylonian poem, and two poems by Sappho.

This week C.J. talks about one of the mystery religions of the Mediterranean, the Eleusinian rites. This religion was centered around a nine-day festival that celebrated Persephone rising from the underworld.

This week C.J. talks about the competition between the Monro family and William Battie, who was the physician at St Luke's Hospital, the rival of Bedlam.

This week C.J. returns in order to discuss the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. This battle, which took place near present-day Sauk City, was a part of the Black Hawk War. This war was fought across Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. On one side was Black Hawk's British Band and on the other the U.S. Military and local militias.

This week C.J. continues his discussion of the history of Bethlem Hospital by covering the period of time during which James Monro was the presiding physician. During this time period the paradigm of care at the hospital went from charitable to profit motivated. Moreover, Monro also employed a series of torturous treatments for his patients that included bleeding, purging, and blistering.

No new episode this week!

This week C.J. talks about Bethlem Royal Hospital, in London. As this one of the oldest psychiatric facilities in the world and by discussing the history of this hospital we can see the shifting views on mental illness through the centuries

This week C.J. discusses a handful of ghost stories from history, including an account from Pliny the Younger and a poem from World War One.

This week C.J. talks about a real-life Dr. Frankenstein, Jean César Legallois, who performed experiments on living animals to find the part of the brain which seated life, at what point death occurred, and what role the spinal cord plays.

This week C.J. talks about blues musician Robert Johnson and the myth that he sold his soul at the crossroads to the Devil in order to get good at the guitar; he also touches on the effect that Hoodoo had on Johnson and his music. 

This week C.J. tells the story of the battle of Osowiec fortress and the so-called "Attack of the Dead Men". This was a counter-charge in which around one hundred soldiers, suffering terribly from the effects of chlorine gas, managed to push back seven thousand advancing Germans.

This week C.J. and Zak continue their discussion about MK ULTRA subproject 68, in which the CIA covertly funded the research of Dr. Donald Ewan Cameron at McGill University in Montreal.

This week C.J. and Zak talk about MK ULTRA Subproject 68, in which they covertly funded the research of Doctor Donald Ewen Cameron. That research entailed a technique known as psychic driving, which was torture masquerading as therapy.

Due to unforeseen circumstances (the lock on my apartment door breaking) there will not be an episode of Historaholics this week. We will, however, be back next week.

This week C.J. and Zak discuss the death of Frank Olson, whether it be by suicide or homicide, after an LSD-fueled CIA retreat.

This week, C.J. reads a few first-hand accounts of LSD experiences to better understand some of what Gottleib's victims experienced.

Join Zak and C.J. as they discuss the early days of LSD research and the beginnings of the Federal Government's investigation into the offensive application of the drug. 

This week C.J. is joined by Zak for an overview of projects BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MK ULTRA, as well as a discussion on the men behind this project.

C.J. needed to take a week off, but he'll be back next week with a new series covering MK ULTRA that will run concurrently with the series covering Hemingway.

This week C.J. keeps it short by talking about the story of the decapitation of the figurehead of Andrew Jackson that was installed on the famed USS Constitution.

This week C.J. talks about Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms and how it relates to his real-life experiences on the Italian Front of the First World War and his grievous wounding.

This week C.J. talks about some of the horrifying weapons of the First World War and their influence on the formation of Modernism.

This week C.J. talks about Hemingway's enlistment in the Red Cross ambulance corps and his experience traveling to the First World War, as well as the horror that Hemingway is headed toward.

Join C.J. as he talks about Ernest Hemingway's time as a reporter at the Kansas City Star, where he would learn much of the tools that he would later use as a fiction writer. C.J. also speaks about Hemingway's possible relationship with Mae Marsh

This week C.J. and James discuss the lead-up to the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, they discuss some of the basics of Roman political life, Caesar's career, and the events of the first Triumvirate, including the resulting civil war.

This week C.J. and James discuss the lead-up to the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, they discuss some of the basics of Roman political life, Caesar's career, and the events of the first Triumvirate, including the resulting civil war.

This week C.J. finishes talking about the childhood of Ernest Hemingway, discussing: the house his mother, Grace, designed and built following the death of her father, the family vacation home at Walloon Lake, and Ernest's burgeoning writing.

This week C.J. discusses Ernest Hemingway's family and his early childhood.

This week C.J. is again joined by Kent and Evan to discuss the Black Hawk War of 1832. THis week they wrap up there discussion by covering the battles from the conclusion of the Battle of Stillman's run through the massacre at Bad Ax. They also discuss the forced tour that Black Hawk and the other leaders of the Sauk and Fox took of the East Coast, including the meetings between Black Hawk and President Andrew Jackson

This week C.J. is once again joined by Kent and Evan for a crossover episode covering the initiation of the Black Hawk War. This week they discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1832 along with the British Band's crossing of the Mississippi and the Battle of Stillman's Run.

Join your host C.J. and special guests Evan and Kent as they discuss the lead up to the Black Hawk War of 1832. This week they talk about Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the war of 1812 in the Great Lakes region, and the 1804 treaty signed in St. Louis.

Join your host C.J. for a quick discussion of the Battle of Shiloh and his experience visiting the battlefield.

Join your host C.J. for a short overview of Charles Lindbergh's fascist leanings, anti-Semetic remarks, and isolationism. All of which speaks to the fact that he can be rightly called a Nazi.

Join your host C.J. as he brings you some updates as well as a teaser for an upcoming episode.

Join your host C.J. for this week's solo episode where he covers Richard Lawrence and his attempted assasination of the United State's worst president, Andrew Jackson. He also discusses the role which mental illness played in Richard's attempt on Jackson's life.

Join your host C.J. and guest Zak as they continue their discussion of Salvador Allende, the first openly Marxist leader elected in Latin America. This week they talk about Allende's tenure as president and the eventual coup d'etat, as well as Allende's last ditch defense of La Moneda.

C.J. is joined this week by Zak, they discuss the early years of Salvador Allende, the Socialist President of Chile who would be overthrown on 9/11/1973. They discuss his upbringing and education, as well as his family background of radical politics.

Join C.J., Kenzie, and Chris as they continue their discussion of the Affair of the Poisons, a scandal which occurred in the court of the French Monarch, Louis XIV. This week they will follow the scandal as it passes into the upper classes of French society and into the KIng's own bedchamber.

Join your host C.J., along with guests Kenzie and Chris, for the first part of a discussion on the Affair of the Poisons, a scandal that overtook the French royal court in the 17th century. This week they discuss the reign of Louis XIV, the case of Madame de Brinvilliers, and the confessions of Magdelaine Guénisseau.