For Halloween we're taking a look at Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Dracula, Vlad Draculea, and Vlad the Impaler. He's famous for being the possible inspiration for Dracula, but what was his life actually like? Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod   Sources: The Terrifying True Story of Vlad The Impaler - History's Real Dracula by All That's Interesting: https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlad-the-impaler Vlad the Impaler, ruler of Walachia by Richard Pallardy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Imp ..read more

A brief 45 minute overview of one of the defining conflicts of the Middle Ages.    Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod   Sources: Hundred Years'  War by History.com Editors: https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/hundred-years-war Hundred Years' War by Mark Cartwright: https://www.worldhistory.org/Hundred_Years'_War/ The Hundred Years' War: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory/chapter/the-hundred-years-war/ The Hundred Years War by Maurice Keen: https://www.bbc.co.uk ..read more

This week we're taking a look at Gregor MacGregor a distinguished military officer, and scam artist with no qualms about putting many lives at risk for his financial gain.  Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod Sources: The conman who pulled off history's most audacious scam by Maria Konnikova: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audacious-scam The Fraud of the Prince of Poyais on the London Stock Exchange by Bryan Taylor: https://globalfinancialdata.com/the-fr ..read more

This week we're taking a look at a riot with a very weird cause: Fashion.  Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Contact:  Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod   Sources: The Straw Hat Riot of 1922: The Harsh Version of No White After Labor Day by Noelle Talmon: https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/ The Straw Hat Riot of 1922: https://www.buniquemillinery.com/pages/the-straw-hat-riot-of-1922 The 1922 Straw Hat Riot Was One of the Weirdest Crime Sprees in American History by Justin Peters: https://slate.com/news-and-politi ..read more

This week we're going to follow the life of Ching Shih from her humble beginnings all the way through her life as one of the most successful pirates in history. Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Contact:  Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod   Sources: One Woman's Rise to Power: Cheng I's Wife and the Pirates by Dian Murray: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298765 Cheng I Sao, Female Pirate Extraordinaire by Ellen C. Caldwell: https://daily.jstor.org/cheng-i-sao-female-pirate/ Ching Shih - From Poverty to Pirate: https://www.theministryo ..read more

This week we're going to take a look at a key moment in Ancient Greece's history, the Battle of Marathon during the Greco-Persian War.  Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez Contact: Email: historysnapshotspod@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistorySnapsPod   Sources: The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 B.C.): https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/acha/hd_acha.htm Ionia by Cristian Violatti: https://www.worldhistory.org/ionia/ The Ionian Revolt by Logan Nielsen: https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/ionian-revolt The Trireme in Ancient Warfare by William Mclaughlin: https://www.warhistoryonl ..read more

This week we take a look at a year of utter chaos during the early years of the Roman Empire. The year 69 CE where 4 men vied for the position of Emperor after Nero's death.  Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez   Sources: The Lives of the Twelve Emperors by C. Suetonius Tranquillus - Alexander Thomson, M.D. Translation: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6400/6400-h/6400-h.htm J.C. Rolfe Translation: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/home.html Year of the Four Emperors: A Complete Overview by Marian Vermueulen: https://www.thecollector.com/year-of-the-four-e ..read more

This week we take a look at one of the oddest sporting events I've ever heard of.  A time when performance enhancing drugs were allowed, and the whole thing was almost lethal.   Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez   Sources: The Olympic Games, 1904 by Charles J.P. Lucas: https://www.loc.gov/item/06003479/ Olympedia: http://www.olympedia.org The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever by Karen Abbott: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/ Story of South Africa's first black Olympians keeps us guessing by ..read more

This week we're going to take a look at one of the important but lesser known pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy, Benjamin Hornigold.   Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez   Sources: Scourge of the Seas: Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers by Angus Konstam Pirates: Predators of the Seas by Angus Konstam with Roger MIchael Kean Benjamin Hornigold: The Pirates' Pirate by Cindy Vallar: http://www.cindyvallar.com/hornigold.html "The Strongest Man Carries the Day", Life in new Providence, 1716-1717 by David Fictum: https://csphistorical.com/2015/07/26/the-strongest-man-carries-the-day-life-in-new ..read more

Animal astronauts helped paved the way for humanity to reach for the star. In this episode we're going to take a look at some of those furry explorers from 1947 to 1961.   Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez   Sources:  A Brief History of Animals in Space: https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 by Asif A. Sadiqqi: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf  60 years ago: The First Animal in Orbit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/60-years-ago-the-first-animal-in-orbit Sputnik 5: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/d ..read more