Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
So much of what we learn in a standard history class, and in the culture around us, are just cliff-note narratives, crafted to explain how things appear, rather than how things actually came to be. Peel back the layers of time and place with this thoroughly researched, college-level history podcast...
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Excerpt: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 2: Sometimes a Garrote is Just a Garrote
Post on patreon for patrons only for 6 months: We tackle the deepest mystery surrounding the ancient bog bodies: why were people ritually killed and...
Doorways in Time, pt. 11: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 1: Something Isn't Rotten in the State of Denmark
The most exhaustive survey that you will find of the “Bog Bodies” – the highly preserved human remains, often of ancient Iron-Age people whose lives w...
Unlocked: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only:
We follow the tribulations of the Papacy through the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, as...
French Canada, pt. 2 -- Envisioning a Province, 1648-1688
We examine how French Canada and its indigenous allies weathered the apocalyptic disasters of the mid-1600s, giving shape in the process to a new, dis...
French Canada, pt. 1 -- Unlocking the Gates of the Continent, 1608-1648
No other American colony projected such extensive power with so few people. We recount how the French explored the vast northern region they called “C...
Unlocked: Italy: Nation-Building Struggles & the Entry Into World War I, 1861-1915
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: We reconstruct the complex divisions and conflicts in Italian society as the new state sought to realize the...
Excerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn
For patrons only for 1 year: We trace how the notion of the “industrial revolution” – originally a foreign, Continental idea rooted in German dialect...
Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 1: Conceiving a Catastrophe
Dictionaries, textbooks, and encyclopedias routinely write in grave and solemn tones about the “industrial revolution” that reportedly “transformed” s...
Virginia, pt. 2 -- A Dominion on Fire, 1646-1685
We consider Virginia’s tumultuous rise to wealth and prominence as the so-called “Old Dominion” and one of the largest European settler colonies in th...
Excerpt: Virginia, pt. 1 -- The Successful Failure, 1607-1646
Virginia began from a small, undersupplied wooden fort immersed in a brackish and malarial marsh to become, after 30 years, the largest and most valua...
Unlocked: History of United States in 100 Objects -- Beaver Fur Hat, 1590-1670
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: A tall “stovepipe” hat, which was made in the 1600s out of felt from beaver fur and likely belonged to a powe...
The Elizabethan Dream: How England Became a Sea Power
We follow the adventures and the atrocities of the English “sea dogs,” from raiding ports in West Africa and Spanish mule trains in Central America to...
Acadia: First Foothold in the North
We follow the tortuous beginnings of Acadia, the first northern European colony in America -- a string of remote fishing and fur trading outposts, Cat...
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 25: "Wilkes And Liberty" Cufflink Jewel, 1760s
The riots, protests, and boycotts that broke out in North America in the wake of the Stamp Act were only one part of the mass crisis that beset Great...
New Mexico: From Prehistory to the Pueblo Revolt
We examine the origins of the first European colony in America north of Florida – New Mexico – from the rise of the Pueblo civilization, which mastere...
Unlocked -- The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?
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We trace the struggles of Venice, through conquest, revolution, and depression, to fashion a place for i...
Excerpt: The Great Archaeological Discoveries -- Pt. 10: Çatalhöyük
On Patreon for patrons only for 1 year:
It is the only large town that has ever been discovered from the Stone Age, making it one of the most im...
Excerpt: Crucible of the Continent: Central Africa before 1700
Excerpt of a lecture for patrons only for 1 year:
We explore the tumultuous history of Central Africa, embracing the enormous Congo rainforest,...
Cities of Iron & Gold: West Africa Before 1700
We follow the rise of civilization and of powerful empires in West Africa before the slave tade, based upon iron-working and the traffic in gold and s...
Halloween Reading & Thank you to Patrons
We read ghost-related poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lola Haskins, & Stanley Plumly, as a thank-you to patrons and a meditation on the field of...
"I Do Not Need a Lecture from You About Idealism" -- The Political Ideology of RWRB
Audio track from the new video, "Red, White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- pt. 4: The Political Ideology of RWRB"--
Intro: Why...
UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 2: Analysis
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We examine the Epic of Gilgamesh as a piece of literature, for its strange dream-like style and form,...
UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History
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He is the earliest human being whose name and life story are known to history. We examine the origins...
Ireland: From Prehistory to the Protestant Ascendancy
We follow how a remote landmass on the far western fringe of Europe became the home of a lasting Gaelic civilization and a major center of classical a...
Myth of the Month 25: Nations
Nations: What are they? Are they defined by language, by “culture,” by blood, or something else? How do you know if you are part of one? —and is...
The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 2: Expelling the Twentieth Century
We follow how deportation policy has evolved, expanding massively in the aftermaths of World War One and World War Two, while shifting its main target...
UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 8 -- The Dead Sea Scrolls
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: The most massive and momentous manuscript discovery of modern times, the Dead Sea Scrolls blew the lid off of...
The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 1: Banishment By Another Name
We examine the roots of the American practice of "deportation" -- from colonial banishment of heretics, through the political upheaval over Alien & Se...
Excerpt: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2
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We follow the tribulations of the Papacy through the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, as the Pope's loyal...
The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 1
We follow the paths by which the bishops of Rome – leaders of what had been a small church on the fringe of the Christian world – established themselv...
Update & Excerpt -- Italy: Nation-Building & Entry Into World War I
Update for listeners, and happy Father's Day wishes; excerpt from latest patron-only lecture on Italy between unification and the entry into the First...
UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 13 -- The July Crisis & the Outbreak of War
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: We review the diplomatic landscape of Europe on the eve of war in the summer of 1914—and then trace the dizzy...
Italy: Revolution, Risorgimento, & Unification, 1789-1870
We follow the convulsions of Italian society -- foreign invasion, popular revolution, peasant revolt, liberal reform, Romantic pageantry, diplomatic d...
Korea, pt. 2 -- The Perfect Kingdom
We follow Korea's thousand-year struggle to maintain its integrity and independence, fending off cataclysmic invasions by the Mongols, the Manchus, an...
Update & Excerpt -- History of the United States in 100 Obects: Beaver-Fur Hat
I give an update on the progress of the podcast, and an important caution on how to sign up as a patron while avoiding Apple's new fees. I give an ex...
Korea, pt. 1 -- Dragons from Small Streams
We examine the origins of the Korean people and state – from prehistoric migrations and technological advances, through the formation of warrior confe...
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Dicoveries -- 9: Troy -- pt. 2: Cutting the Trojan Knot
We journey through the different eras and incarnations of Troy as archaeologists have reconstructed them from the excavations at Hissarlik. We then ex...
UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 10 -- Japan
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only -- We trace the evolution of Japanese society, including the tensions between its peaceable, Buddhist-inspired...
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, 9: Troy -- pt. 1: The Odyssey in Reverse
It is one of the foundational achievements of archaeology, and one of the most momentous discoveries ever made in any field --
We follow...
Thank you to patrons, & Teaser: The History of Venice, pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?
A sample from a lecture on Patreon for patrons only for one year:
We trace the strugles of Venice, through conquest, revolution, and depression,...