55: Smuttynose Island
Nine small islands, called the Isles of Shoals, lie off the coast just over the line between New Hampshire and Maine. One of them, Smuttynos...
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Second Decade
This is a historical show examining the momentous events and interesting people of the second decade of the 19th century, the 1810s. From Jefferson to Napoleon, from Iceland to Antarctica, h...
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Listen to Second Decade, a Society & Culture podcast by Kerkoporta LLC. Stream 65 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 65 episodes54: The Dumplings of Death
In March 1815, in London, Elizabeth Fenning served a plate of dumplings to the family that employed her as a cook. Almost all members of the...
53: The Lithuanian Rabbi
For centuries, the historic region of Lithuania, torn between its powerful European neighbors, was one of the great centers of Jewish cultur...
Bonus: Trailer for Age of Confusion Podcast
This brief trailer is to introduce you to Second Decade host Sean Munger's newest podcast, a fiction/alternate history show called Age of Co...
52: War and Peace
This is a crossover episode with the Green Screen podcast. Leo Tolstoy’s epic 1869 novel War & Peace is undeniably one of the great classics...
51: Norway, Part II
After being sold out by the great European powers, especially Great Britain, as a sop to Sweden, the people of Norway felt angry and betraye...
50: Norway, Part I
At the beginning of the Napoleonic era, Norway was not its own country, but rather the junior partner in the unequal combination of Denmark-...
49: Theo the Pipe Smoker
The bodies of dead human beings can tell us a lot about the past, but most human remains from the distant past tend to be rich or important...
48: Heritage Lost
America was growing rapidly in the 1810s, and growth meant building. Buildings of all kinds, from churches, markets and houses to banks and...
47: Year Without Summer, Part III
The mysterious weather and climate anomalies of the Year Without Summer did not end with the coming of fall or the end of the calendar year...
46: Year Without Summer, Part II
For many people around the world, 1816 was the oddest summer they ever lived through. Snow from the previous winter was still left in places...
45: Year Without Summer, Part I
The “Year Without Summer,” 1816, is one of those things that many people have heard of, but very few know anything substantive about. It was...
44: The Fires of St. John's
In the 1810s, St. John’s, Newfoundland was possibly the most remote and inaccessible corner of British America. Located on an island that wa...
43: Austen-tatious
Jane Austen is rightly considered perhaps the greatest British novelist of her day, or any age. Her novels about women, marriage and family...
42: Tomb Raider
One of the most bizarre and mysterious cultures in human history, ancient Egypt still holds considerable interest for us today. This was eve...
41: Caragea's Plague
If you’ve never heard of John Caragea and have no idea where Wallachia is, you’re certainly not alone. This look at the seamy underbelly of...
40: Antarctica
For most of human history, Antarctica was more of a concept than a reality. Geographers from ancient times and voyagers in the Age of Discov...
Second Decade Update and Special Appeal
It’s been a while—too long—since the last episode of Second Decade. In this brief bonus episode, Sean Munger talks to you, the listeners, ab...
Off Topic: The 80s (Jake's 88 Special, Part III)
This bonus episode, the third one released in conjunction with Sean Munger’s newly-released novel Jake’s 88 (which is set in the 80s), exami...
Off Topic: The 80s (Jake's 88 Special Part II)
This bonus episode, the second one released in conjunction with Sean Munger’s upcoming novel Jake’s 88 (which is set in the 80s), examines t...
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