Jen and Matt take listeners on a tragic journey through the assassination of  the idealistic leader Patrice Lumumba Song courtesy of Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/c-i-a-criminals-in-action/1452789645?i=19680141 Sources for today's podcast From CIA.gov’s Center for the Study of Intelligence the book review of: Death in the Congo: The Murdering of Patrice Lumumba (Vol. 59, no. 4), by  Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick, Book Reviewed by: Stephen R. Weissman publish December, 2015→ this is fascinating The political life of the dead Lumumba: Cold War histories and the Congolese student left Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2019 by Pedro Monaville “Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations”The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965 Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department→ a truly mind bending read. The podcasts: Assassination Podcast and the BBC World Service Witness Archievs And finally, throwing some love to the students of the world, the Harvard University Senior thesis Patrice Lumumba’s Congo: Sovereignty Denied by American Interests by Samuel Kies (2015) reviewed by Professors Andrew Friedman and Darin Hayton. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, your hosts Jen and Matt, finish off the story of the Russo-Japanese War, and the devastating effects is has on Russia.  Listen in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In the second part of this 3-part series, Jen and Matt take a deeper look at some of the battles during the Russo-Japanese war, and the impact they have on both Japan and Russia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, Matt and Jen visit Japan and Russia and see how these late comers to the imperialist game end up on a collision course towards war in 1904 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, Jen and Matt take on the story of the noble Samurai, which leads them to discover the man known as the Devil Daimyo. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, Jen and Matt unpack the story of Thanksgiving and delve into what is fact and what is fiction. We welcome back special guest Tyler Arko to the show as well! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, Jen and Matt delve into the dark days of the Black Death as they discuss the Genoese Death Fleet and make connections to today's pandemic. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In the 3rd episode of Season 2, Matt and Jen look at the Song Dynasty of China, through the lens of Choose Your Own Adventure stories. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, Matt and Jen discuss the ingredients that were needed for the fall of the Classical Empires (Han, Rome, and Gupta), and realize that most of the world is currently cooking up disaster. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support

In this episode, the first of Season 2, your hosts take a look all the way back to the Neolithic Revolution, and how it isn't all that its cracked up to be.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sthistorists/support