Calling History: Listen In on Conversations with History’s Most Influential People.

By Anthony Dean

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Episodes: 121

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The Calling History Podcast is an unscripted, interview style phone conversation with the heroes, the villains, and the great thinkers of history. It’s an opportunity to ask them anything, in their time, while they are living it. How did Benjamin Franklin feel about leaving his comfortable life of fame and excess in London as a loyal British citizen to risk it all and return to America as a rebel? How did record setting Louise Thaden feel about racing and beating Amelia Earhart and yet her name is almost unknown? Who is Jack the Ripper and why did he enter the scene so violently and then disappear like a whisper? Subscribe now and join this entertaining, interesting, and unpredictable journey back in time as we learn who these people really were and answer the question, “If you could call anyone in history, what would you ask them?”

Episode Date
Will The Next Episode Be Before The Book?
Apr 16, 2025
Sally Hemings Part 2: Sally Becomes Front Page News
Apr 09, 2025
Sally Hemings Part 1: He Came for Me
Apr 02, 2025
William Shakespeare Part 2: The Words Will Outlive Us.
Feb 26, 2025
William Shakespeare Part 1: These Words Mean Nothing, Until They Are Spoken.
Feb 19, 2025
George Custer Part 2: The Army is the Last Form of Diplomacy
Feb 12, 2025
George Custer Part 1: There are not Enough Indians in the World to Defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
Feb 05, 2025
Samuel Adams Part 2: I Was Cautious When the Young Lieutenant Was Waiting to Assassinate Me
Jan 08, 2025
Samuel Adams Part 1: Sometimes We Must Shed Blood so that Liberty can Prevail.
Jan 01, 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt Part 2: You Have to Do What You Think You Can Not Do.
Dec 11, 2024
Eleanor Roosevelt Part 1: Father Took Us to the Slums after Dinner.
Dec 04, 2024
Thomas Gage Part 2: The American’s Rebel Under the Veneer of Liberty.
Nov 27, 2024
Thomas Gage Part 1: The Colonist See the Law Very Selectively.
Nov 20, 2024
Walt Disney Part 2: Did Mickey Mouse Throw Minnie out of a Plane?
Nov 13, 2024
Walt Disney Part 1: I Don’t Care About Making Money
Nov 06, 2024
Abraham Lincoln Part 2: Without Total Devastation, the South Will Not Give up.
Sep 18, 2024
Abraham Lincoln Part 1: I Thought the South was Out-Praying Us
Sep 11, 2024
Alexander Hamilton Part 2: When a Person is Without Honor, there is no Limit to What They Might Find Reasonable.
Sep 04, 2024
Alexander Hamilton Part 1: I’m Not from a State, I’m an American.
Aug 28, 2024
Thomas Paine Part 2: The World is my Country; all Mankind are My Brethren.
Aug 21, 2024
Thomas Paine Part 1: These are the Times That Try Men’s Souls
Aug 14, 2024
Anne Frank Part 2: There is so Much that I Can’t Say Out Loud.
Aug 07, 2024
Anne Frank Part 1: When I Write My Courage is Reborn.
Jul 31, 2024
Albert Einstein Part 2: My Theory Gave Birth to the Atomic Bomb.
Jul 24, 2024
Albert Einstein Part 1: Why Can I Not Be a Citizen of the World?
Jul 17, 2024
PT Barnum Part 2: Money is an Excellent servant, but a Terrible Master
Jul 10, 2024
PT Barnum Part 1: Without Promotion, Something Terrible Happens, Nothing.
Jul 03, 2024
James Bowie Part 2: I am Not in the Habit of Backing Down
May 29, 2024
James Bowie Part 1: We are Doomed Sir. We Have No Chance.
May 22, 2024
Ruby Waller Part 2: That Was My Introduction into The World of Whoredom
May 15, 2024
Ruby Waller Part 1: How Did She End Up Drinking Gin with Charles Dickens?
May 08, 2024
Frances Perkins Part 2: World War II Rolled My Career into a Ball and Threw it in the Trash.
May 01, 2024
Frances Perkins Part 1: People Were Jumping From the 10th Story.
Apr 24, 2024
Nathaniel Hawthorne Part 2: I Find the Shadowy Side of our Nature More Interesting.
Apr 17, 2024
Nathaniel Hawthorne Part 1: It Doesn’t Matter What You Think, It Only Matters That You Think.
Apr 10, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren Part 2: Liberty Must Reign in the Hearts and Minds of the People.
Apr 03, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren Part 1: History Shows Us That Peaceful Times Controlled by Men, Don’t Seem to Last.
Mar 27, 2024
Sacagawea Part 2: While Traveling West, Why Didn’t Other Tribes Attack Your Group?
Mar 20, 2024
Sacagawea Part 1: I Don’t Understand, Because Nobody Owns the Land.
Mar 13, 2024
Rebecca Nurse Part 2: Salem Witch Trials – I am Guilty, Until Proven Innocent.
Mar 06, 2024
Rebecca Nurse Part 1: Salem Witch Trials – If They Believe in Their Hearts that I am a Witch, Then I Must Accept That.
Feb 28, 2024
The Unsinkable Molly Brown Part 2: Money Opened Doors for Me.
Feb 21, 2024
The Unsinkable Molly Brown Part 1: I am a Daughter of Adventure.
Feb 14, 2024
Richard Allen Part 2: You Fight and You Struggle and You Hold on to Your Faith.
Feb 07, 2024
Richard Allen Part 1: I No Longer Saw Myself as Trapped.
Jan 31, 2024
Isabella Gardner Part 2: The Seventh Wonder of Boston
Jan 24, 2024
Isabella Gardner Part 1: She Lives at an Intensity that Makes Other lives Seem Pale
Jan 17, 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte Part 2: Did You Bayonet and Drowned 5000 Prisoners?
Jan 10, 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte Part 1: Why Wouldn’t They Kill You Rather Than Risking Exile Again?
Jan 06, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe Part 2: Violence Makes it that Much More Entertaining.
Nov 15, 2023
Edgar Allan Poe Part 1: Isn’t Alcohol Part of the Creation?
Nov 08, 2023
Rochambeau Part 2: Was the French Revolution America’s Fault?
Nov 01, 2023
Rochambeau 1: We Saw General Washington Jumping on the Docks and Waving His Hat.
Oct 25, 2023
Theodore Roosevelt 2: If You Call Roosevelt Four-Eyes in a Bar, You’ll Regret it.
Oct 18, 2023
Theodore Roosevelt 1: There Are Good People that Do Good Things, And I Want to be One of Them.
Oct 11, 2023
Daniel Boone Part 2: After Being Chased by His Captors for 167 Miles, His Feet Were Bleeding and Raw.
Oct 04, 2023
Daniel Boone Part 1: I Thought for Sure I’d Freeze to Death that Night.
Sep 27, 2023
John Andre Part 2: If I Was Going to Die Young, It Would Be on an Adventure Seeing the World.
Sep 20, 2023
John Andre Part 1: Washington Was the Master of Retreat.
Sep 13, 2023
Octavius Catto Part 2: Did He Intentionally Lose the First Blacks vs. Whites Baseball game?
Sep 06, 2023
Octavius Catto Part 1: I See White People as Being Deceived
Aug 30, 2023
Deborah Sampson Part 2: What Happened When the Doctor Discovered She Was a Female Soldier Dressed as a Man?
Aug 23, 2023
Deborah Sampson Part 1: I Knew No Freedom, I Knew No Future.
Aug 16, 2023
Jane Austen Part 2: “I Think Ladies Have to Have a Sense of Humor or We Would Always Be Fainting on the Sofa.”
Aug 09, 2023
Jane Austen Part 1: “Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked.”
Aug 02, 2023
Albert Gallatin Part 2: What Happens When You Interrupt George Washington?
Jul 26, 2023
Albert Gallatin Part 1: Why Do They Call Him the Swiss Founding Father?
Jul 19, 2023
Tycho Brahe Part 2: Once His Uncle Died Saving the King, Tycho Was Set for Life, at Least Until the King Died.
Jul 12, 2023
Tycho Brahe Part 1: What Happens When the Pet Moose Living in your Mansion Drinks a Bucket of Beer?
Jul 05, 2023
Thomas Jefferson Part 2: “If John Adams Could Decide Not to Own Slaves, Why Couldn’t You?”
Jun 28, 2023
Thomas Jefferson Part 1: Why Did Young Thomas Wrap Bacon Around a Metal Spring to Attract a Wolf?
Jun 21, 2023
Stonewall Jackson Part 2: “I Was No Longer a Citizen of the United States, I Was a Citizen of Virginia.”
Jun 14, 2023
Stonewall Jackson Part 1: “Sir, I Am Not Fighting This War to Defend Slavery, I assure you.”
Jun 07, 2023
Santa Anna Part 2: Why Didn’t He Attack Sam Houston When He Had the Advantage?
May 31, 2023
Santa Anna Part 1: “If You Have the Army, You Can Take Control of Mexico!”
May 24, 2023
Peggy Shippen 2: Why Did You Have a Locket of John Andre’s Hair?
May 17, 2023
Peggy Shippen Part 1: Victim or Mastermind?
May 10, 2023
Bonus Episode: Happy ”May The Fourth Be With You!”
May 04, 2023
Davy Crockett Part 2: You Can All Go to Hell! I’m Going to Texas.
May 03, 2023
Davy Crockett Part 1: “Did You Really Kill a Bear with Your Bare hands?”
Apr 26, 2023
James Madison Part 2: “… After That, George Washington Didn’t Talk to Me Again.”
Apr 19, 2023
James Madison Part 1: “When You Wrote “Right to Bear Arms” in the Second Amendment, What Did You Mean?”
Apr 12, 2023
John Brown Part 2: “…Nothing Was Being Done to Stop the Pro-Slavery Murderers!”
Apr 05, 2023
John Brown Part 1: He Could Have Escaped at Harpers Ferry, But He Chose Death Instead.
Mar 29, 2023
Martha Washington Part 2: If George Goes Back into Public Life, That Will Be a Difficult Conversation in the Bedroom.
Mar 22, 2023
Martha Washington Part 1: What Happened After She Outlived Both Husbands and all Her Children?
Mar 15, 2023
Frederick Douglass Part 2: What Did Frederick Douglas Say to Abraham Lincoln Once the Confederates Committed to Executing all Captured Black Soldiers?
Mar 08, 2023
Frederick Douglass Part 1: After Fighting the “Slave Breaker” for 2 Hours, the Whippings Stopped, and Douglass Changed the World!
Mar 01, 2023
Paul Revere Part 2: After Being Caught on his Midnight Ride the Major said, “If He Tries to Escape, Blow His Brains Out!”
Feb 22, 2023
Paul Revere Part 1: Why Was he Charged with Cowardice After Risking His Freedom at the Boston Tea Party, and His Life on the Midnight Ride?
Feb 15, 2023
Harriet Tubman Part 2: “What? There Is a Regular Bible and a Slave Bible?”
Feb 08, 2023
Harriet Tubman Part 1: “I’ll Either Pray for You or I’ll Pray Over you.”
Feb 01, 2023
Abigail Adams Part 2: When Asked If “Violence Was Necessary”, Abigail Outsmarted Me Again.
Jan 25, 2023
Abigail Adams Part 1: Why Did Abigail Adams Threaten a “Women’s Revolt” in a Letter to John Adams.
Jan 18, 2023
Jack the Ripper Part 2: Why Was Only One Ripper Murder Committed Indoors and Why Was It the Most Gruesome of All?
Jan 11, 2023
Jack the Ripper Part 1: Who Was the Russian Prince That Hired Three Men to Commit the Ripper Murders?
Jan 04, 2023
Mary Todd Lincoln Part 2: Did Mary Take Money on the Side from Those Wanting to Influence the President?
Dec 28, 2022
Mary Todd Lincoln Part 1: Was She a Reckless Shopaholic Spending Money that Could Have Helped Battlefield Soldiers or a Brilliant Political Ally for Abe?
Dec 21, 2022
Jefferson Davis Part 2: “The Constitution Was a Pro-Slavery Document”
Dec 14, 2022
Jefferson Davis Part 1: “The Civil War Was Not About Slavery, it Was About …”
Dec 07, 2022
John Hancock Part 2: The Answer About His Involvement in the Boston Tea Party is Hilarious!
Nov 30, 2022
John Hancock Part 1: “I Respect People That Bend the Law Like That.”
Nov 23, 2022
Louise Thaden: She Beat Amelia Earhart, She Beat the Men, and She Raised the Bar for Women in the Air Forever.
Nov 16, 2022
Joseph Warren Part 2: He Was the First Doctor to Arrive at the Boston Massacre.
Nov 09, 2022
Joseph Warren Part 1: At The Battle of Bunker Hill, Joseph Warren Said, “Send Me to Where the Fighting is Fiercest.”
Nov 09, 2022
Ulysses S. Grant Part 2: There Were So Many Flies Hovering Over the Bodies, the Sky Went Dark.
Nov 02, 2022
Ulysses S. Grant Part 1: How did Grant Handle losing 23,746 men in 36 hours?
Nov 02, 2022
Aaron Burr Part 2: Aaron Burr Saved Alexander Hamilton’s Life Before He Took It.
Oct 26, 2022
Aaron Burr Part 1: How Was He Serving as Vice President While Dodging Jefferson’s Warrant to Have Him Arrested?
Oct 26, 2022
Henry David Thoreau Part 2: “I Will Break That Law as Often as I Can.”
Oct 19, 2022
Henry David Thoreau Part 1: Why Did He Choose to Live at Walden Pond For Exactly 2 years, 2 Months, and 2 Days?
Oct 12, 2022
George Washington Part 2: ”Would You Rather Be a Great General or a Great President?”
Oct 12, 2022
George Washington Part 1: Did Fate Prevent the Assassin’s Bullet from Killing Young George Washington Long Before He Crossed the Delaware?
Oct 05, 2022
Benedict Arnold Part 2: Why Did He Lead the Attack to Destroy His Hometown?
Sep 28, 2022
Benedict Arnold Part 1: His Justification for NOT Being a Traitor Will Make You Question What You Think You Know
Sep 28, 2022
Mark Twain Part 2: How Was He a Best-Selling Author, A Highly Paid Speaker, and Bankrupt?
Sep 28, 2022
Mark Twain Part 1: “You Want to Know What I Think of the Damned Human Race…”
Sep 28, 2022
Benjamin Franklin Part 2: Why Did He Give His Inventions to The World Without Profiting From Them?
Sep 28, 2022
Benjamin Franklin Part 1: That Is the exact Moment I Became a Patriot!
Sep 28, 2022
John Adams Part 2: Adams Knew That He Could Do More with His Words Than He Could with a Musket.
Sep 21, 2022
John Adams Part 1: Why Were the French Attacking American Ships When Adams Was Elected?
Sep 21, 2022