Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. I hope all is well and your summer isn’t a boiling hellhole. This Seams Interesting is a regular column focused on overlooked, weird, and forgotten people and events throughout history. It’s no secret that I love African history (I have over 30 books specifically on it). I’ve already covered
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Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. This Seams Interesting is a column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. When it comes to Greek history most people know about Aristotle, Homer, Alexander the Great (I know he was Macedonian but that’s a story for another day), and the Olympics. Arguably the
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Hello and Welcome, I’m Spencer Seams. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. March’s topic is… HASEKURA TSUNENAGA: The Pope’s Favorite Samurai The Samurai, legendary warriors that actually did a lot more than fight with katanas. They were more or less government employees
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Hello and Welcome, This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. February’s Topic is… AMINA OF ZARIA: African Warrior Queen Extraordinaire Africa has a deep and rich history going from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the golden coast of the Asasnte to the Dahomey
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. December’s topic is… TSAREVNA SOPHIA ALEKSEYEVNA ROMANOVA: Peter the Great’s Lesser Known but Much More Interesting Sister When most people think of the Russian Tsars the names that pop up
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