A Journey into Human History

A podcast by Miranda Casturo

Categories:

History

131 Episodes

  1. The Ottomans and the Mongols

    Published: 11/1/2023

  2. The Long-Term Effects of the Global Transformation during the 14th Century

    Published: 10/30/2023

  3. The Black Death from East to West

    Published: 10/27/2023

  4. Famine, Climate Change, and Migration in the 14th Century

    Published: 10/25/2023

  5. Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century

    Published: 10/23/2023

  6. The People of the Sahel

    Published: 10/20/2023

  7. Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa

    Published: 10/18/2023

  8. Culture and Society in Medieval Africa

    Published: 10/16/2023

  9. Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia

    Published: 10/4/2023

  10. The Mongol Empire Fragments

    Published: 10/2/2023

  11. Chinggis Khan and the Early Mongol Empire

    Published: 9/29/2023

  12. Song China and the Steppe Peoples

    Published: 9/27/2023

  13. The Crusading Movement

    Published: 9/25/2023

  14. Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade

    Published: 9/23/2023

  15. The Seljuk Migration and the Call from the East

    Published: 9/20/2023

  16. The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages

    Published: 9/18/2023

  17. Border States: Sogdiana, Korea, and Japan

    Published: 9/15/2023

  18. East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages

    Published: 9/13/2023

  19. The rise and fall of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China

    Published: 9/11/2023

  20. South Asia in the Early Middle Ages

    Published: 9/8/2023

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Welcome to a journey into human history. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. You may be asking yourself what is history? Is it simply a record of things people have done? Is it what writer Maya Angelou suggested—a way to meet the pain of the past and overcome it? Or is it, as Winston Churchill said, a chronicle by the victors, an interpretation by those who write it? History is all this and more. Above all else, it is a path to knowing why we are the way we are—all our greatness, all our faults—and therefore a means for us to understand ourselves and change for the better. But history serves this function only if it is a true reflection of the past. It cannot be a way to mask the darker parts of human nature, nor a way to justify acts of previous generations. It is the historian’s task to paint as clear a picture as sources will allow. Will history ever be a perfect telling of the human tale? No. There are voices we may never hear. Yet each new history book written and each new source uncovered reveal an ever more precise record of events around the world. You are about to take a journey into human history. The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. For more information please review the links and resources in the description. Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a creative common sense production.