https://uncommonhistory.substack.com/ You’d think a courthouse would be the safest place in town. Built of stone, with a flag waving above and a judge inside. But in Jackson, Kentucky, around the turn of the 20th century, you’d best keep your head down—especially on court day. Because in Breathitt County… justice didn’t wear a robe. It carried a Winchester rifle. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/uncommon-history/exclusive-content...
Aug 18, 2025•12 min
The Untamed Frontier: When Justice Wore a Six-Gun https://uncommonhistory.substack.com/ We are going to begin a multi part series into a foundational text for understanding American outlaw: Emerson Hough’s 1907 classic, The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado . It's not just a collection of biographical sketches about cowboys and bad guys; it's a deep dive into the very nature of justice, survival, and identity on the edge of civilization. So, buckle up. Let's head back to a ti...
Aug 03, 2025•16 min
https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Benjamin Franklin's Satirical Spark: The Accidental Birth of Daylight-Saving Time In 1784, Benjamin Franklin penned a satirical letter to the Journal de Paris that would inadvertently plant the seed for what we now know as Daylight Saving Time. This humorous piece, far from being a serious policy proposal, showcased Franklin's wit and economic mindset. The Accidental Discovery Franklin's letter began with an anecdote about waking up at 6 AM, surprised to find hi...
Dec 30, 2024•5 min
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Sep 29, 2023•39 sec
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Jul 22, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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Jun 29, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Do you want an Uncommon History T-Shirt? https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Kroger Ship - Free Shipping on 1,000s of items - https://fxo.co/GgIg Book - Understanding the Bible Made Easy: Bible Study Guide for Beginners Click here: https://amzn.to/3CxYZZU Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women- https://amzn.to/3F2s2G0 Click the link to receive two free audiobooks from Audible: https://amzn.to/3uoIVVo Follow the link to connect with us : https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Help Support thi...
Jun 02, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Book - Understanding the Bible Made Easy: Bible Study Guide for Beginners Click here: https://amzn.to/3CxYZZU Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women- https://amzn.to/3F2s2G0 Click the link to receive two free audiobooks from Audible: https://amzn.to/3uoIVVo Follow the link to connect with us : https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Help Support this podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/uncommon-history Uncommon History Season #4 Ep#3 Welcome to the Uncommon History Podcast! In this episode...
May 12, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Book - Understanding the Bible made Easy: Bible Study Guide for beginners Click here: https://amzn.to/3CxYZZU Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women- https://amzn.to/3F2s2G0 Click the link to receive two free audiobooks from Audible: https://amzn.to/3uoIVVo Follow the link to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Support this podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/uncommon-history Uncommon History Season 4 Ep2 A Small Boy's Recollections of the Civil War written by George F...
Apr 22, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Book - Understanding the Bible made Easy: Bible Study Guide for beginners Click here: https://amzn.to/3CxYZZU Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women- https://amzn.to/3F2s2G0 Click the link to receive two free audiobooks from Audible: https://amzn.to/3uoIVVo Follow the link to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Uncommon History S. 4 Ep. 1 Welcome to today's episode of "Uncommon History", where we explore the stories and events that shaped our world. In this episode, we'...
Mar 31, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Book - Understanding the Bible made Easy: Bible Study Guide for beginners Click here: https://amzn.to/3CxYZZU Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women- https://amzn.to/3F2s2G0 Click the link to receive two free audiobooks from Audible: https://amzn.to/3uoIVVo Follow the link to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Support this podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/uncommon-history Uncommon History Podcast Welcome to the Uncommon History Podcast, a show that dives deep into ...
Feb 04, 2023•37 sec
Christian Devotional and Prayer Journal for Women ...https://amzn.to/3U3GAtc Understanding the Bible made Easy: Bible Study Guide..https://amzn.to/3iczEwk Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Audible is an Amazon company that sells and produces spoken audio content. Click here to get your free trial https://amzn.to/3vQZSIQ Help support our podcast by purchasing a T-shirt … https://uncommon-history-of-the-south.creator-spring.com/ Uncommon History We discover little-known...
Nov 23, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Understanding the Bible Made Easy Book https://amzn.to/3opd9Eh Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Audible is an Amazon company that sells and produces spoken audio content. Click here to get your free trial https://amzn.to/3vQZSIQ Help support our podcast by purchasing a T-shirt … https://uncommon-history-of-the-south.creator-spring.com/ We uncover little-known facts of uncommon history. History is full of curious characters and interesting stories you will never disco...
Oct 28, 2022•45 min
Book https://amzn.to/3opd9Eh Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Audible is an Amazon company that sells and produces spoken audio content. Click here to get your free trial https://amzn.to/3vQZSIQ Help support our podcast by purchasing a T-shirt … https://uncommon-history-of-the-south.creator-spring.com/ Uncommon History of My Old Kentucky Home The most well-known and adored historic property in Kentucky is the farm that inspired the vision in Stephen Collins Foster's ...
Sep 05, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Uncommon History Book https://amzn.to/3opd9Eh Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Uncommon History of the early years of motorcycle racing, Charles "Fearless" Balke was a remarkable talent whose career was tragically ended by an accident (like far too many others from that era). In Elgin, Illinois, in 1913, he took first place in the country's first significant motorcycle road race. The most surprising thing of all was that after his death, when cleaning up her nephew's...
Aug 05, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Book https://amzn.to/3opd9Eh Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Jenny Wiley, a renowned pioneer woman, captured by Native Americans in 1789, was born Jean "Jenny" Sellards in Pennsylvania in 1760 and lived until 1831. After being held captive for 11 months, Wiley witnessed the murder of her brother and her children before making her escape. She is remembered by the name Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unc...
Jul 21, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Connect with and Follow us: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Double Episode Mike Fink and Edgar Cayce - Uncommon History Podcast Season 3 Ep# 3 Uncommon History of Mike Fink and Edgar Cayce Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck), "King of the Keelboaters" (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman, exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Edgar Cayce, The "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medici...
Apr 29, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In search of the True Uncommon History of Blackbeard the Pirate Season 3 Ep# 2 True Uncommon History of Blackbeard the Pirate Known as Blackbeard, Edward Teach (aka Edward Thatch, circa 1680 – November 22, 1718) is a British pirate operating on the east coast of the West Indies and the British North American colony. did. Little is known about his early life, but during the Queen Anne's War, before settling on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, the base of Captain Benjamin Hornigold, who joine...
Mar 04, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Season 3 Ep# 1 John Swift's Lost Silver Mine | Uncommon History Swift's silver mine is an unproven silver mine existence is part of the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Uncommon History History is full of extraordinary tales of questionable characters, outlaws, heroes, and thought-provoking narratives passed down from generation to generation like grandma’s recipes. These real-life stories and exaggerations of fiction have helped shape our culture and created larger-than-life a...
Feb 18, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Season 2 Episode #11 Sue Mundy Terror in Kentucky Part 3 Sue Mundy, Kentucky's most notorious guerrilla marauder during the final months of the Civil War. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncommonhistory/support Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/uncommon-history/exclusive-content...
Nov 19, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Season 2 Episode #10 Sue Mundy Terror in Kentucky Part 2 Sue Mundy, Kentucky's most notorious guerrilla marauder during the final months of the Civil War. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncommonhistory/support Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/uncommon-history/exclusive-content...
Oct 01, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Sue Mundy, Kentucky's most notorious guerrilla marauder during the final months of the Civil War. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncommonhistory/support Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/uncommon-history/exclusive-content...
Sep 09, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory Down the Santa Fe Trail - Uncommon History of the South Podcast In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a critical time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied b...
Jul 30, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory We talk with Gary Foreman about the Battle of the Alamo. “Gary is a true visionary, who thinks on a grand scale, and is not afraid to go where other, more timid souls fear to tread. He is a master photographer, filmmaker, and historian. Absolute accuracy and fidelity to realism are his hallmarks.” The Battle of the Alamo was fought between the Republic of Texas and Mexico from February 23, 1836 to March 6...
Jul 01, 2021•52 min
Follow the link to connect with us or join our community: https://linktr.ee/uncommonhistory The long rifle , also known as long rifle , Kentucky rifle , was one of the first commonly used rifles for hunting and warfare. It is characterized by an unusually long barrel, a development in American rifles that was uncommon in European rifles of the same period. The long rifle is an early example of a firearm using rifling (spiral grooves in the bore), which caused the projectile (commonly a round lea...
May 28, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Follow the link to connect with us: linktr.ee/uncommonhistory George W. Hunter The Daring Southern Lawman We discover little-known facts of uncommon history. History is full of curious characters and interesting stories you will never discover in any textbook. We discover fun facts of historical events, interesting places, famous people, and everything in between. Follow the link to connect with us: linktr.ee/uncommonhistory If you have a question about a previous podcast or would like for us to...
May 13, 2021•47 min
Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a overwhelming effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". We uncover little-known facts of uncommon history. History is full of curious characters and interesting stories you will never discover in any textbook. We uncover fun facts of historica...
Apr 24, 2021•35 min
Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a overwhelming effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". We uncover little-known facts of uncommon history. History is full of curious characters and interesting stories you will never discover in any textbook. We uncover fun facts of historica...
Apr 10, 2021•41 min
Hunley became the first successful combat submarine in world history with the sinking of the USS Housatonic. The Confederate submarine was lost for over a century and was raised in 2000. Now, scientists are working to solve the mystery of her disappearance. We uncover little-known facts of uncommon history. History is full of curious characters and interesting stories you will never discover in any textbook. We uncover fun facts of historical events, interesting places, famous people and everyth...
Mar 18, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey, a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name ultimately derives from the French Bourbon dynasty, although the precise inspiration for the whiskey's name is uncertain; contenders include Bourbon County in Kentucky and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, both of which are named after the dynasty. Bourbon has been distilled since the 18th century. The name "Bourbon" was not applied until the 1850s, and the Kentucky etymology was not adv...
Feb 26, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
