All Episodes
Friday Night History — 100 episodes
Episode 155 (S5E12)- Threats and Bluster
Episode 154 (S5E11)- The Northern Mantle
Episode 153 (S5E10)- Last Stand of the Shogitai
Episode 152 (S5E9)- Bootstrapping an Army
An Update, 21 August 2026
Episode 151 (S5E8)- "To Whom Does the Stonewall Belong?"
Episode 150 (S5E7)- Fire in the Mountains
Episode 149- Spotlight on the Sources, Part 7- "At the Edge of Empire," by Michael Gardiner
Episode 148- Spotlight on Sources, Part 6- "Shinsengumi Saito Hajime no Subete"
Update, 5 June 2026
Episode 147- Spotlight on Sources, Part 5- "Shinsengumi Tenmatsuki," by Nagakura Shinpachi
Episode 146- Spotlight on Sources, Part 4- "Saigo Takamori: The Man Behind the Myth," by Charles Yates
Episode 145- Spotlight on Sources, Part 3: "French Officers in the End of the Shogunate and the Boshin War," by Emmy Faubry
Episode 144- Spotlight on Sources, Part 2: "Edo in 1868," by M. William Steele
Episode 143 (S5E6)- The Thick of Things
Episode 142- Spotlight on Sources, Part 1: The Papers
Episode 141 (S5E5)- Realignments
A Week of Hiatus
Episode 140 (S5E4)- Force Multiplier
Episode 139 (S5E3)- Shots Fired
Episode 138 (S5E2)- War Within a Breath
Episode 137 (S5E1)- Pax Tokugawa
Preview: Season 5 Members' Episode 4- The Last Daimyo
Preview: Season 5 Members' Episode 3- Flag of the Defeated-Army Star
Preview: Season 5 Members' Episode 2- American Entanglement
Preview: Season 5 Members' Episode 1- Mahan and Boyer
Episode 136- Advances in Mapping
Welcome to Reiwa 8
Episode 135- A Retrospective for Reiwa 7
Preview: Season 4 Members' Episode 4, "The Five Precepts"
Preview: Season 4 Members' Episode 3, "Hawk of the North"
Episode 134- Taking Stock of Season Four
A Brief Pause
Episode 133 (S4E33)- Si Monumentum Requiris
Episode 132 (S4E32)- Dragon Ascendant
Episode 131 (S4E31)- "My Date Father"
Episode 130 (S4E30)- Taming Mountains and Rivers
Episode 129 (S4E29)- Endings and Beginnings
Episode 128 (S4E28)- Since I Have Been Spared
Episode 127 (S4E27)- In the Way
Episode 126 (S4E26)- Hexagram Seven
Episode 125 (S4E25)- The Longest of Long Shots
Episode 124 (S4E24)- The Great Protector
Episode 123 (S4E23)- A Shrine Fit for a King
Episode 122 (S4E22)- The City of Immortals
Episode 121 (S4E21)- Going for Broke
Episode 120 (S4E20)- Cleaving a Path
Episode 119 (S4E19)- The Middle Finger of God
Episode 118 (S4E18)- If the Nightingale Sings
Pausing Ahead of the Sekigahara Arc
Episode 117 (S4E17)- Like Dew It Disappears
Tekko 2025, Special Episode, and More
Episode 116 (S4E16)- A Brush with Disaster
Episode 115 (S4E15)- The Year of the Water Dragon
Episode 114 (S4E14)- A Wagtail's Audacity
Episode 113 (S4E13)- A Spear to Sweep All in the Realm
Episode 112 (S4E12)- Death-Clothes
Episode 111 (S4E11)- Sansa Shigure
Episode 110 (S4E10)- The Fight at the Crossroads
Episode 109 (S4E9)- Battle in the Gathering Clouds
Episode 108 (S4E8)- A Four-Cornered Whirlwind
An Update, 1 May 2025
Episode 107 (S4E7)- War By Other Means
Episode 106 (S4E6)- The Year of Change
Episode 105 (S4E5)- Manslayer Bridge
Episode 104 (S4E4)- "I'd Rather Stay Alive"
Episode 103 (S4E3)- Fierce Bodhisattva
Episode 102 (S4E2)- The Princess, the Wetnurse, and the House of Hunting Falcons
Episode 101 (S4E1)- Child of the Sacred Mountains
Prelude to "Dragon Ascendant"
Episode 100- The Tohoku Zone
An Update, 2 December 2024
Coming Soon: Friday Night History #100, "The Tohoku Zone"
Episode 99 (S3E33)- The Bases
Episode 98 (S3E32)- Further than the Rivers
Episode 97 (S3E31)- The Northern Highway
Episode 96(S3E30)- The Geography of Tohoku
Episode 95 (S3E29)- The Geography of Japan
Episode 94 (S3E28)- Periods
Episode 93 (S3E27)- The Range on the Range
Episode 92 (S3E26)- Bering Into History
Episode 91 (S3E25)- Skepticism and Diligence
An Update, 10 July 2024
Episode 90 (S3E24)- Tamura Osaru, Hunter
Episode 89 (S3E23)- The Matagi
Special Episode: Weekend at Bakufu's
Episode 88 (S3E22)- The Mounds
Episode 87 (S3E21)- The Hino Peach Garden Oath
Friday Night History trailer
Episode 86 (S3E20)- An Introduction to the Gosanke and Gosankyo
Episode 85 (S3E19)- Guns from Ginseng
Episode 84 (S3E18)- Yokoo Tosaku Goes South
In Memoriam- Dr. Richard J. Smethurst
Episode 83 (S3E17)- The Sendai Horse Market
Episode 82 (S3E16)- Horsing Around with the Dolls
Episode 81 (S3E15)- The Geta
Episode 80 (S3E14)- The Passport
Episode 79 (S3E13)- Sode no Watari
Episode 78 (S3E12)- Tsuriishi Shrine and the River's North Fork
Episode 77 (S3E11)- Ishinomaki and the Thousand Koku Ships