Calling History: Listen In on Conversations with History’s Most Influential People.
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?”
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
In 1801, John Adams had just lost his reelection campaign to Thomas Jefferson when he received a call from the future …
John Adams had the impossible job of being president following the beloved George Washington. In these episodes you’ll learn how he felt about this challenge.
How and why, he was preparing for war and negotiating for peace simultaneously.
And how one event would have changed the election results, but it came a few days too late.
At the peak of his intellectual career, Adams agreed to be vice president and was side-lined for the next eight years in a job with few responsibilities and no power. Once Washington was ready to step down, the world had changed significantly. Somehow the stubborn, tenacious Adams navigated these treacherous waters to move our country forward.
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