About Historical Diversions
History isn’t confined to a textbook or a classroom. History isn’t just memorization of dates and places. History is context. History is where emotion and reason intersect. The study of history isn’t confined to academia, but the purview of anyone wanting to learn about it.
The goal of the Historical Diversions podcast is to cover subjects that you wouldn’t normally think of as “history”, and to also cover subjects you might have learned about in school from a different angle.
Think of an audio version of the Wayback Machine hooked up to an iPod Shuffle…
About History Over Drinks
History is also about those who lived it. Many experiences will never get written down, and could be lost forever. The goal of History Over Drinks is to bring those stories to light. Interviews with experts and those who have a story to tell are on tap, and drinks might be served!
Who knows? Maybe we’ll even learn something…
About Your Host
Your host became interested in history from TV shows like History’s Mysteries, the Age of Empires computer games, and books from the controversial Graham Hancock. While enjoying American and “World” history classes in high school (one teacher said she could see him as a history professor! :-0 ), but the forensic sciences called to him as a career instead. Thanks to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast, his love of history was rekindled.
Your host enjoys traveling the world with his beautiful wife, watching shows on Wondrium, volunteering at his local animal shelter, and still playing Age of Empires computer games. Oh, and making podcasts (really, really slowly)…
