Past Lives

History is built by people like you, and Past Lives is here to bring their stories to life. Every week, we’ll focus on the lived experiences of real people in the past, from the Stone Age to the near-present. Peasants, laborers, artisans,...

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• Recommended Listen: History Daily
• Why Slavery Matters
• Matilda McCrear, the Clotilda, and the Last Survivors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Olaudah Equiano's Atlantic World
• Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America (18th Century)
• Maddalena, the Medici, and Slavery in the Renaissance (Florence, 15th century)
• Sultan Baybars (Mamluk, 13th Century)
• Freedmen, Work, and Race in Colonial Philadelphia: Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
• Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
• Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, Second Century AD)
• Eurysaces’ Bakers and the Hell of Roman Industry
• Crixus: Gladiators, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resisting Slavery
• Terence, Slavery, and Ancient Rome's First Literature
• Neaira (Prostitute, Corinth and Athens, 4th Century BC)
• Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Wealth of Classical Athens
• Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC)
• On Slavery
• Introducing Past Lives
• Coming Soon: Past Lives