131 Episodes

  1. The Roman Republic

    Published: 7/21/2023

  2. The Hellenistic Era

    Published: 7/19/2023

  3. Ancient Greece: Part 2, The Classical Period of Greece

    Published: 7/17/2023

  4. Ancient Greece: Part 1, Archaic Greece, Sparta and Athens

    Published: 7/14/2023

  5. Early Mediterranean Peoples

    Published: 7/12/2023

  6. Vedic India to the Fall of the Maurya Empire

    Published: 7/10/2023

  7. Ancient Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia: Part 2

    Published: 7/7/2023

  8. Ancient Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia: Part 1

    Published: 7/5/2023

  9. The Eurasian Steppes

    Published: 7/3/2023

  10. Ancient China Part 2: The Zhou Dynasty, Confucius, The Warring States Era, and Qin Unification

    Published: 6/30/2023

  11. Ancient China Part 1: Prehistoric China, and the Early Dynasties

    Published: 6/28/2023

  12. The Hebrews

    Published: 6/26/2023

  13. The Persian Empire

    Published: 6/23/2023

  14. Egypt’s New Kingdom Part 2: The Many Strange Faces of Akhenaten and Egypt’s Foreign Policy

    Published: 6/21/2023

  15. Egypt’s New Kingdom Part 1: The Hyksos in Egypt and The Pharaohs

    Published: 6/19/2023

  16. From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 2

    Published: 6/16/2023

  17. From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 1

    Published: 6/14/2023

  18. The Indus Valley Civilization

    Published: 6/12/2023

  19. Ancient Egypt: Part 2, Writing, Pyramid Building, and A Second Age of Egyptian Greatness

    Published: 6/9/2023

  20. Ancient Egypt: Part 1, Origins, Religion, and Government

    Published: 6/7/2023

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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.