184 Episodes

  1. Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)

    Published: 7/18/2025

  2. Invention of Writing (c. 3500 BCE)

    Published: 7/16/2025

  3. Founding of the Persian Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great (550 BCE)

    Published: 7/14/2025

  4. The Romanesque Revival: Architecture and Art (19th Century)

    Published: 7/11/2025

  5. The Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean (1650s-1730s)

    Published: 7/9/2025

  6. Lewis Carroll and The Writing of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

    Published: 7/7/2025

  7. PREMIUM: Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE)

    Published: 7/4/2025

  8. Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE)

    Published: 7/4/2025

  9. Jomon Period (14,000-300 BCE): Earliest evidence of human habitation in Japan

    Published: 7/2/2025

  10. The construction of the Parthenon on the Acropolis (447-432 BCE)

    Published: 6/30/2025

  11. The Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeat the Persians (490 BCE)

    Published: 6/27/2025

  12. Conquest of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by the Medes and Babylonians (612 BCE)

    Published: 6/25/2025

  13. Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I (1918)

    Published: 6/23/2025

  14. American Revolution and the formation of the United States (1775-1783)

    Published: 6/20/2025

  15. Martin Luther (1483-1546)

    Published: 6/18/2025

  16. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

    Published: 6/16/2025

  17. Haiku Poetry: Emergence of the popular form of Japanese poetry during the Edo Period

    Published: 6/13/2025

  18. Japanese invasion of China and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

    Published: 6/11/2025

  19. Charlemagne's coronation as the Holy Roman Emperor (800 CE)

    Published: 6/9/2025

  20. Zheng He's voyages of exploration (1405-1433)

    Published: 6/6/2025

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