Footnoting History
Hosted by Ben and Jessica and Kristin and Samantha and Ted · Footnoting History
4.3from 499 ratings
- 354
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 499
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 194K
- YouTube views
About Footnoting History
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. For further reading suggestions, information about our hosts, our complete episode archive, and more visit us at FootnotingHistory.com!
- Publisher
- Footnoting History
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Feb 2013
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 354 episodes have a transcript.
10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Imperial Japan and African American Activism in the early Twentieth Century
Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The Japanese had been building up their military since the late 19th century, and had modernized sufficiently to take on a major European power. Not only did they attack the Russians by surprise, but they decisively defeated them again and again, resulting in a treaty which saw a major European power of territories as a result. For many around the world, the victory echoed other transcendent world events such as the Haitian or French revolutions of the 19th century, where unlikely military victories trumped the seemingly anachronistic hubris of the Old World. The oppressed populations of the world witnessed the possibility of the colonized defeating a colonizer in the modern era of warfare. […]
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- YouTube views
- 193,793
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 463 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 36 ratings
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- Quality
- 59
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 97
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Ben and Jessica and Kristin and Samantha and Ted host the show. Published by Footnoting History.
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