From Here to History
The history podcast where Chris Swanson and Jason Weidert discuss events and people of the past with as much openness, understanding, and fairness as we can muster. Our only agenda is to inform in an entertaining and engaging way.
We teach high school, after all, and that's a tough audience. Our hope is that if we can keep teenagers interested we may be able to pull off a worthwhile podcast, too.
We try to release one episode every month. But we're teachers with busy young families so if we go a little longer than that between episodes, bear with us!
From Here to History
Halloween Special: Ghosts of Tragedies Past
Just in time for Halloween! Join Chris and Jason as they discuss two historic sites that are reputed to be haunted: Poveglia Island in the Venetian Lagoon and Greyfriars Kirkyard in Old Town Edinburgh. Are the tortured souls in their tragic pasts still with us today?
Follow us on our Facebook page or on X (formerly Twitter)
You can reach out to us by email: fromheretohistory@gmail.com
Reading material on Poveglia Island is extremely scarce.
But if you're interested in Greyfriars, and larger Scottish history in general, you could do worse than this list.
The Ghost that Haunted Itself by Jan-Andrew Henderson
Scotland: the Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Charles II by Ronald Hutton