Western Civ
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Western Civ is a society podcast hosted by Adam Walsh. It has 576 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.
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Episode 532: Italy
Episode 531: Canons to the Right of Them!
Episode 530: Russia Awakens
Episode 529: We Hold These Truths
Episode 528: Gettysburg
Episode 527: The War Goes North
Episode 526: The Seven Days Battles
Episode 525: Shiloh
Episode 524: Bull Run
Episode 523: A House Divided
Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets
Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
Episode 521: The Irish Potato Famine
Episode 520: The Revolutions of 1848
Episode 519: Do You Hear The People Sing?
Episode 518: The Age of Jackson
Episode 517: Greek Independence and the Revolutions of 1830
Episode 516: The Industrial Revolution
Episode 515: The Liberator
Episode 514: The Mexican War of Independence
Episode 513: Slavery's Long Shadow
Worlds of Islam: A Global History
Episode 512: The Congress of Vienna
Episode 511: The Hundred Days
Episode 510: The March to Moscow
Episode 509: The War of 1812
Episode 508: The Jefferson Administration
Episode 507: France Ascendant
Episode 506: Austerlitz
Episode 505: Consul for Life
Episode 504: The Revolution of 1800
Episode 503: The End of the Revolution
A Brief History of Financial Bubbles
Episode 502: To Egypt
Episode 501: Napoleon's Northern Italian Campaign
Episode 500: A Whiff of Grapeshot
Episode 499: The Rise of Louverture
Episode 498: The Terror
Episode 497: The Terror Begins
Episode 496: The Trial of Louis XVI
Episode 495: The Fall of the King
Episode 494: Saint-Dominque
Episode 493: The Flight of the Royals
Episode 492: Bread and the Church
Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
Episode 491: The Women's March
Episode 490: The Fall of the Bastille
War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why
Episode 489: The Estates-General
Episode 488: The Flood
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