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A Journey into Human History — 222 episodes
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Economic Imperialism in East Asia
The Spanish American War and Overseas Empire
Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
Progressivism in the White House
New Voices for Women and African Americans
Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
Urbanization and Its Challenges
A New American Consumer Culture
Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
From Invention to Industrial Growth
Inventors of the Age
The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
The Westward Spirit
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Restoring the Union
The Union Triumphant
1863 The Changing Nature of the War
Early Mobilization and War
The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
John Brown and the Election of 1860
The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
The Compromise of 1850
Women’s Rights
Addressing Slavery
Reforms to Human Health
Antebellum Communal Experiments
An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
Wealth and Culture in the South
African Americans in the Antebellum United States
The Economics of Cotton
Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West
The Mexican American War, 1846 - 1848
Independence for Texas
The Missouri Crisis
Lewis and Clark
The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Indian Removal
The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
The Rise of American Democracy
A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
A New Social Order: Class Divisions
On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
Early Industrialization in the Northeast
The United States Goes Back to War
Partisan Politics
The New American Republic
Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Debating Democracy
How Much Revolutionary Change?
Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
Identity during the American Revolution
War in the South
The Early Years of the Revolution
Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
Wars for Empire
Great Awakening and Enlightenment
An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
The Impact of Colonization
English Settlements in America
Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
West Africa and the Role of Slavery
Europe on the Brink of Change
The Americas
Ongoing Problems and Solutions
Science and Technology for Today’s World
Debates about the Environment
A Global Economy
A New World Order
Global Tensions and Decolonization
The Non-Aligned Movement
The Spread of Communism
The Cold War Begins
Out of the Ashes
Keeping the Home Fires Burning
Theaters of War
An Unstable Peace
Resistance, Civil Rights, and Democracy
Old Empires and New Colonies
The Great Depression
The Formation of the Soviet Union
Recovering from World War I
The War Ends
War on the Homefront
Total War
The Collapse of the Ottomans and the Coming of War
Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
Communities in Diaspora
Coerced and Semicoerced Labor
Life in the Industrial City
Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
Exploitation and Resistance
Motives and Means of Imperialism
The Second Industrial Revolution
Portuguese South America
Spanish South America
Spanish North America
Revolution for Whom?
Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
Revolutions: America, France, and Haiti
The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
The Enlightenment
Capitalism and the First Industrial Revolution
The Rise of a Global Economy
Colonial Empires
European Colonization in the Americas
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Mercantilist Economy
Crossing the Atlantic
The Protestant Reformation
The Safavid Empire
The Ottoman Empire
A Connected Islamic World
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
The Swahili Coast
The Songhai Empire
The Roots of African Trade
Exchange in East Asia
The Malacca Sultanate
India and International Connections
A Summary of our Journey into Human History so far
Gunpowder and Nomads in a Transitional Age
From the Mamluks to Ming China
The Ottomans and the Mongols
The Long-Term Effects of the Global Transformation during the 14th Century
The Black Death from East to West
Famine, Climate Change, and Migration in the 14th Century
Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
The People of the Sahel
Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa
Culture and Society in Medieval Africa
Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia
The Mongol Empire Fragments
Chinggis Khan and the Early Mongol Empire
Song China and the Steppe Peoples
The Crusading Movement
Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade
The Seljuk Migration and the Call from the East
The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages
Border States: Sogdiana, Korea, and Japan
East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages
The rise and fall of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China
South Asia in the Early Middle Ages
Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam
The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States
The Rise and Message of Islam
The Margins of Empire
The Kingdoms of Aksum and Himyar
The Byzantine Empire and Persia
The Eastward Shift
North Africa’s Mediterranean and Trans-Saharan Connections
The Kingdom of Kush
The Emergence of Farming and the Bantu Migrations
Africa’s Geography and Climate
The Age of Empires in the Americas
Early Cultures and Civilizations in the Americas
Populating and Settling the Americas
The Regions of Rome
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Economy: Trade, Taxes, and Conquest
Slavery in the Roman Empire
The Daily Life of a Roman Family
The Age of Augustus
The Roman Republic
The Hellenistic Era
Ancient Greece: Part 2, The Classical Period of Greece
Ancient Greece: Part 1, Archaic Greece, Sparta and Athens
Early Mediterranean Peoples
Vedic India to the Fall of the Maurya Empire
Ancient Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia: Part 2
Ancient Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia: Part 1
The Eurasian Steppes
Ancient China Part 2: The Zhou Dynasty, Confucius, The Warring States Era, and Qin Unification
Ancient China Part 1: Prehistoric China, and the Early Dynasties
The Hebrews
The Persian Empire
Egypt’s New Kingdom Part 2: The Many Strange Faces of Akhenaten and Egypt’s Foreign Policy
Egypt’s New Kingdom Part 1: The Hyksos in Egypt and The Pharaohs
From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 2
From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 1
The Indus Valley Civilization
Ancient Egypt: Part 2, Writing, Pyramid Building, and A Second Age of Egyptian Greatness
Ancient Egypt: Part 1, Origins, Religion, and Government
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 2, Later Empires in Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 1, The Rise and Eclipse of Sumer
Early Civilizations
The Neolithic Revolution
People in the Paleolithic Age
Early Human Evolution and Migration: Part 2
Early Human Evolution and Migration: Part 1
Causation and Interpretation in History
Understanding Primary Sources
Developing a Global Perspective
Introducing a Journey into Human History