Talkin' History
Helllloooooo and welcome to the website of the Talkin' History Podcast!
Sources
A work in progress, but here I will try to keep a link to all of the sources I use for the show, separated by episode. I want to be faithful to the facts of history and any good historian knows that it's not enough to just tell a story: you have to back it up with information and genuine sources.
About
Alex has always liked history. Well, there was that time in Middle School when he told his parents he liked math better because he could just take a test and be done with it and he didn't have to write those stupid pointless essays. But Alex stuck with those essays and, finding out he could actually write pretty well, came to enjoy the kinds of textual analysis that would be commonplace as a history major. He earned his BA in History from BYU and discovered a deep love for the stories of everyday people, as well as larger than life characters across many different time periods. As an American living in Hungary, he is deeply enjoying the ready access to many historical sites, some of which date back thousands of years. He is a geek when it comes to World War II, food, and anything to do with castles. He can identify multiple antique aircraft purely by sound and once got an A on a 7 page research paper he wrote the day it was due about the role food played in the messages of the French Revolution.
Contact
Feel free to contact me and let me know what you think of the show! Or, if you have episode ideas for things you would like to hear more about, shoot me a message and I'll check it out!