Comments on: Hercules

By: Aron Wagner

Aron Wagner — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 23:27:01 +0000

SUPERB story. I will be using this in my 8th grade history class. Thank you!

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:36:50 +0000

The episode ends by suggesting that we, like Hercules’ daughter, take some solace in the idea of Hercules getting to freedom, but it doesn’t acknowledge the real horrors that his ‘freedom’ likely entailed, eg, the constant risk of capture, no legal status, separation from his family, etc. I know this is short-form history and it can’t do everything, but this episode’s final note seemed just off the mark in that regard. Up to then, however, the episode did an excellent job of illustrating some humanities that are often overly mythologized—Washington and enslaved people alike. Great storytelling, as always. (And if you read this, Nate, I hope you take this as just a minor critique from an interested listener, rather than as criticism from an internet monster. Anyway, all the best.)

By: Ken Pimple

Ken Pimple — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:24:40 +0000

It’s hard to beat Nate in telling history as stories (yet still honest history) but he has beat himself. Any American hearing about Hercules and his master should feel ashamed, but Nate doesn’t try to shame. He give me a scar on my heart that I should have gained earlier, but his voice made the experience, the touch, as humane as possible. Bravo.