The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

152 North Korea, Part Three: Collaborators, Resistors, and Kim Il Sung

Posted January 29, 2018 • 00:14:06

Japanese occupation changed North Korea, with various citizens either collaborating with or actively resisting it. One of those resistors was a guerrilla...

151 North Korea, Part Two: Japanese Occupation

Posted January 22, 2018 • 00:19:51

Japan’s occupation of Korea was a gradual process. As far back as 1876 Japan approached Korea with unequal treaties that attempted to economically...

150 North Korea, Part One: The Peaceful Peninsula

Posted January 15, 2018 • 00:13:54

This year, we’re doing a long-form series on North Korea. We’ll get into the history, culture, and ideology of the isolated, totalitarian country....

149 Sarah Fraser on The Last Highlander

Posted January 8, 2018 • 00:36:53

Sarah Fraser is the author of The Last Highlander, which details the life of Simon Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat. Fraser’s life was one of political...

New Series Announcement

Posted December 25, 2017 • 00:01:48

We’re on break for the holidays. The podcast will return on January 8th with an interview episode, and on January 15th with the launch of a new long-form...