Dr. Nyri A. BakkalianAn update about my unplanned two week hiatus, and the pace of things going forward on #FridayNightHistory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/160253455 #JapaneseHistory
#FridayNightHistory is off this week, out of an abundance of caution regarding my continued recovery from burnout. While you're waiting, check out this episode from the archives: "NINJA VERSUS BUCHANAN" https://riverside-wings.com/2023/09/08/friday-night-history-66-s2e33-ninja-vs-buchanan/
#FridayNightHistory is almost ready to complete a major equipment upgrade, thanks to you-- there's just the audio interface left to acquire. You can send a few dollars my way via the link, and https://buff.ly/mU4ApeL
On Saigo Takamori the man, Great Saigo the myth, and why the next regular episode had to wait until I finished rereading this book. #FridayNightHistory 146 is Spotlight on Sources #4: on "Saigo Takamori," by Charles L. Yates https://riverside-wings.com/2026/05/08/friday-night-history-146-spotlight-on-sources-part-4-saigo-takamori-by-charles-yates/ #podcasts #JapaneseHistory
(Friday Night History) #146- Spotlight on Sources, Part 4: “Saigō Takamori,” by Charles Yates
Before we begin this week, I want to say thank you to everyone who’s donated to the crowdfund for my surgery. It’s unfortunately been delayed to September, but that just gives me more t…
Every now and then, there are books in the historiography that aren't that great, but you have to talk about. This book, on the French officers active in Japan during the Boshin War, is one of them. Let's talk about it. #FridayNightHistory 145 is up! https://buff.ly/YGU50U7
(Friday Night History) #145: Spotlight on Sources, Part 3: “French Officers in the End of the Shogunate and the Boshin War,” by Emmy Faubry
Every now and then, there are books in the historiography that aren’t that great, but you have to talk about. This is one of them. the cover of “French Officers…” As it was publis…
In our consideration of a war that was the warrior caste fighting itself, it behooves us to remember the "view from below." #FridayNightHistory 144 is the 2nd Spotlight on Sources, on "Edo in 1868," by M. William Steele https://buff.ly/gTu8fCP #JapaneseHistory
(Friday Night History) #144: Spotlight on Sources, Part 2: “Edo in 1868,” by M. William Steele
Let’s get the view from below. Something that is all too easy to forget about Japan in 1868 is the view from below. The war, in short, was the warrior caste fighting itself. For everyone else…
Alright, folks. Next episode of #FridayNightHistory will drop tomorrow morning. It's good to go on the text side, I just need to not be recording audio late at night, so I'm going to wait until morning.
Thanks for your patience!!
Folks: going forward, #FridayNightHistory will move to a schedule of regular episodes every *other* week, with a Spotlight on Sources episode in between. This is to give myself more time to read and write, as well as to give you, the listener, a regular view into the backend of this process.
I also need the downtime so that other projects-- like my novels-- can have room to breathe and progress.
This is a marathon, not a sprint, and I intend to see these things through one way or the other.
All of this is, of course, possible thanks to you, the listener and reader, so please consider subscribing! http://patreon.com/riversidewings
Romulus Hillsborough may be a fucking hack in my opinion, but "will to power" really does sum up what a fool Kondo Isami was in the early spring of 1868, and how that set Shinsengumi up for disaster.
Listen to this week's #FridayNightHistory podcast to learn why.