A history podcast from an amateur historian that dives into the dark and macabre details of all sorts of incredible and mind-blowing stories from our past. My name is Lauren Powers and I strive to tell you all of the nitty gritty details that you never learned in class; after all, education is our strongest weapon against tyranny.
The Mountain Man That Survived A Brutal Bear Attack.
In 2015 a film called The Revenant was released, about a man who was attacked by a bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers in a harsh, empty landscape. The ferocity of the bear was violent, graphic and intense and all based on a true story. The story of Hugh Glass, a larger than life American hero who survived impossible odds, facing starvation, death and violence, but managed to tell his tale.
Thanks to Mike Meyers for the theme music, you can follow him on X @themikeshow42.
Surreal Forest, Meydän, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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Sources
https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.fol.020.html (https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.fol.020.html) (the fur trade)
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com (https://www.americanhistorycentral.com)
https://portablepress.com/blog/2015/12/tale-hugh-glass/ (https://portablepress.com/blog/2015/12/tale-hugh-glass/)
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/msn/01the-story-of-hugh-glass-the-man-who-inspired-the-revenant.html (https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/msn/01the-story-of-hugh-glass-the-man-who-inspired-the-revenant.html)
hughglass.org (http://hughglass.org)
https://secretireland.ie/hugh-glass-the-irish-american-legend-who-defied-death-and-defined-survival/ (https://secretireland.ie/hugh-glass-the-irish-american-legend-who-defied-death-and-defined-survival/)
https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/stories/history-and-culture/pigments-of-the-fur-trade/ (https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/stories/history-and-culture/pigments-of-the-fur-trade/)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/673475/summary (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/673475/summary)https://hughglass.org/pirate-and-pawnee/ (https://hughglass.org/pirate-and-pawnee/)
https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Glass-story-by-Crook.pdf (https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Glass-story-by-Crook.pdf)
https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1825-Hugh-Glass-article.pdf (https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1825-Hugh-Glass-article.pdf)
https://hughglass.org/mountain-man/ (https://hughglass.org/mountain-man/)
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fur-trade/ (https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fur-trade/)
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/mountain-men/ (https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/mountain-men/)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/03/23/leonardo-dicaprio-making-revenant/?msockid=1abccfa2e0bf68692709da6fe119695a&ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/03/23/leonardo-dicaprio-making-revenant/?msockid=1abccfa2e0bf68692709da6fe119695a&ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first)
https://hughglass.org/later-life/ (https://hughglass.org/later-life/)
16 Feb 2026
The Moonies Cult in Korea Believed Their Leader To Be The Next Messiah.
The Japanese occupation of Korea lasted from 1910 to 1945, in which Japan spent their time systematically wiping out any sort of Korean culture and religious beliefs, stating that the Koreans should follow Japanese culture, traditions and beliefs. This erasure of Korean culture left many Koreans feeling lost and wanting to hold on to something familiar to them. The Korean preacher, Sun Myung Moon started to preach, bringing Christianity slowly back into Korea, despite the protests of Japan.
However, Moon has had his own objectors and those who believed that he wasn’t just preaching the word of God, he was brainwashing and manipulating his followers into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on artifacts, items that would promise to take away the sins of their ancestors and lead to future good luck. Not to mention the mass weddings that were held, people who would be meeting their future spouse for the first time, some not even speaking the same language.
Thanks to Mike Meyers for the theme music, you can follow him on X @themikeshow42.
Background Music: Ambient Breath, Kirk Osamayo, Free Music Archive, CCBY, https://tinyurl.com/ambientbreathkirko
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Sources are available on my website, notyourhistoryclass.com
6 Jan 2026
(RE-RELEASE) Reign of the Ceausescus (Part 1 & 2): They Let The Citizens of Romania Starve In The Streets While They Ate Like Kings.
The hosts on Not Your History Class Podcast discuss Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu's tyrannical rule in Romania, highlighting their lavish lifestyle amid widespread starvation and oppression.
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