Mossbunker Review

The Mossbunker Review offers stories from history, literature, and letters, along with essays and reflections to nourish the mind, much like its namesake. This humble mossbunker fish sustains life by enriching the soil and ecosystems. Small contributions can shape worlds. May these pages encourage and delight you in your most important mission. https://www.mossbunker.review/ Liam J. Atchison, Ph.D., FSAScot

Mossbunker Review is a history podcast hosted by culfinatan, with 58 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

culfinatan hosts Mossbunker Review, a history show with 58 episodes published.

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  Episode #59

  59 You Are at the Center of the Universe: And That May Not Mean What You Think

  Sep 8, 202622 min

  “A man walks into a coffeehouse” is no joke. In this redux of an earlier episode, Dr. Liam uses a little coffeehouse mischief to explore the idea that human beings stand at the center of what they know, and why that esoteric idea is so important. The Scientific Revolution taught us that Earth is not the physical center of the cosmos, but we can never step outside ourselves and observe the past from nowhere. History comes to us through human minds, memories, evidence, language, and judgment, and the way we understand and tell other people’s stories matters.

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  Episode #58

  58 The melancholy Kansas boyhood of young William Cody

  Sep 1, 202620 min

  Long before Dr. Liam knew Salt Creek Valley as the home of a rival grade-school basketball team, another boy was growing up there and learning some of the skills, relationships, and hard lessons that would shape the man later known as Buffalo Bill Cody. In this episode, Liam returns to the country north of Leavenworth, Kansas, where young William Cody learned horses, encountered Native people, became connected with western freighting, and watched the violence of Bleeding Kansas strike his own family.

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  Episode #57

  57 Salt Creek! Slowly I Turned…

  Aug 25, 202616 min

  A sixth-grade basketball rivalry, a mysterious bottle of “energy” tablets, twenty-two points in one half—and five fouls before the second half even began. Dr. Liam returns to the Salt Creek Valley of his Kansas childhood, where a humiliating afternoon against the hated rivals from the north became one of those stories that only gets better with age. But beneath the basketball and Three Stooges humor lies another discovery: the places we think we know as children often have histories we cannot yet see. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to turn around and notice the story that was there all along.

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  Episode #56

  56 A Wilde Sunflower in Kansas

  Aug 18, 202624 min

  In April 1882, a twenty-seven-year-old Oscar Wilde carried his gospel of beauty into Kansas and discovered that the Sunflower State was not entirely prepared for an Irish aesthete in velvet breeches. Following Wilde through northeastern Kansas, Dr. Liam explores the strange collision between the Victorian Aesthetic Movement and the practical sensibilities of the American Midwest. Many laughed at Wilde’s appearance, but some Kansans recognized a hidden diamond in the rough as Wilde raised a question that still matters: in a civilization very good at making useful things, have we forgotten how important it is to make beautiful ones?

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  Episode #55

  Sherman at the Bar: A General Misfit?

  Aug 11, 202619 min

  Before William Tecumseh Sherman became one of the Union’s most formidable generals, he was a melancholy banker, a restless businessman, and a thoroughly unhappy lawyer in Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Liam traces the unlikely prewar career of a man who often seemed badly placed, yet kept learning, organizing, observing, and preparing for work he could not yet foresee. Sherman’s story offers a wry and thoughtful reflection on vocation, disappointment, perseverance, and the possibility that the jobs we were never meant to keep may still teach us what we will later need.

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