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Newfoundland: The Amphibious Province, 1610-1697

Excerpt: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 2: Sometimes a Garrote is Just a Garrote

Doorways in Time, pt. 11: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 1: Something Isn't Rotten in the State of Denmark

Unlocked: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2

French Canada, pt. 2 -- Envisioning a Province, 1648-1688

French Canada, pt. 1 -- Unlocking the Gates of the Continent, 1608-1648

Unlocked: Italy: Nation-Building Struggles & the Entry Into World War I, 1861-1915

Excerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn

Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 1: Conceiving a Catastrophe

Virginia, pt. 2 -- A Dominion on Fire, 1646-1685

Excerpt: Virginia, pt. 1 -- The Successful Failure, 1607-1646

Unlocked: History of United States in 100 Objects -- Beaver Fur Hat, 1590-1670

The Elizabethan Dream: How England Became a Sea Power

Acadia: First Foothold in the North

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 25: "Wilkes And Liberty" Cufflink Jewel, 1760s

New Mexico: From Prehistory to the Pueblo Revolt

Unlocked -- The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?

Excerpt: The Great Archaeological Discoveries -- Pt. 10: Çatalhöyük

Excerpt: Crucible of the Continent: Central Africa before 1700

Cities of Iron & Gold: West Africa Before 1700

Halloween Reading & Thank you to Patrons

"I Do Not Need a Lecture from You About Idealism" -- The Political Ideology of RWRB

UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 2: Analysis

UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History

Ireland: From Prehistory to the Protestant Ascendancy

Myth of the Month 25: Nations

The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 2: Expelling the Twentieth Century

UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 8 -- The Dead Sea Scrolls

The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 1: Banishment By Another Name

Excerpt: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2

The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 1

Update & Excerpt -- Italy: Nation-Building & Entry Into World War I

UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 13 -- The July Crisis & the Outbreak of War

Italy: Revolution, Risorgimento, & Unification, 1789-1870

Korea, pt. 2 -- The Perfect Kingdom

Update & Excerpt -- History of the United States in 100 Obects: Beaver-Fur Hat

Korea, pt. 1 -- Dragons from Small Streams

Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Dicoveries -- 9: Troy -- pt. 2: Cutting the Trojan Knot

UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 10 -- Japan

Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, 9: Troy -- pt. 1: The Odyssey in Reverse

Thank you to patrons, & Teaser: The History of Venice, pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?

Life in the House of Cards: 2024 in Historical Context

The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 2: Seasons of Power & Pleasure

The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 1: From Asylum to Empire

Teaser: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 2: Analysis

Teaser: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History

UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 6: Germany

Creating the Caribbean: The Colonial West Indies -- pt. 2: The High Plantation Period, 1697-1791

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 23: The Touro Synagogue Torah Finials

Teaser: Doorways in Time, pt. 8 -- The Dead Sea Scrolls

Origins of the First World War, pt. 14 -- Conclusions: Was the Great War Inevitable?

UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 4 -- Bosnia & the Assassination

Myth of the Month 22: Culture

Audio from video -- "Red White and Royal Blue" pt. 1 -- The Historical Context of RWRB

Origins of the First World War, pt. 12 -- War Planning & Strategy

Origins of the First World War, pt. 11 -- The 19th-Century Revolution in Warfare

Article: "In the American Tempest: Democracy, Conspiracy, & Machine"

Teaser: "Origins of the First World War -- pt. 10: Japan"

Audio track from video -- Red White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- Intro

UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 6 -- Early Audio Recordings

Origins of the First World War, pt. 9 -- Great Britain

2023 in Historical Context: Dividing the Harvest

Origins of the First World War, pt. 8 -- France

Myth of the Month 23: UFOs

Unlocked: History of US in 100 Objects #20 -- Silver Beaker with Devil and Pope Figures

Origins of the First World War, pt. 7 -- Belgium & Luxembourg

TEASER: Origins of the First World War, pt. 6 -- Germany

Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 3 -- audio track

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 22: The Makauwahi Stone Mirror / Kilo Pohaku

Origins of the First World War, pt. 5 -- Russia

UNLOCKED -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories

Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 7: The Antikythera Mechanism

Teaser: Origins of the 1st World War -- Bosnia & the Assassination

Origins of the First World War, pt. 3 -- Austria-Hungary

Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 2 -- audio track

Interpreting Solomon's Temple

UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 4 -- The Library of Ashurbanipal

Origins of the First World War, pt. 2 -- Serbia

Teaser -- Myth of the Month 22: Culture

Origins of the First World War, pt. 1 -- The Ottoman Empire

India, pt. 3 -- The Rise of the South & the Islamic Conquests

Video lecture: Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 1, audio track

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 21: The Braddock/Washington Pistol

The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms

Update & teaser: Doorways in Time, #6 -- Early Audio Recordings

UNLOCKED: Hist. of the U.S. in 100 Objects -- 18: Jesuit Brass Medallion with I. Loyola

The Vikings, pt. 1 -- In the Norsemen's World

2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?

Myth of the Month 21: The Old West

Update: Historiansplaining in Crisis, & Teaser: Silver Beaker with Devil & Pope Figures

Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper

UNLOCKED: Robin Hood, pt. 2: Capturing the Outlaw

James II & the "Glorious Revolution"

Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 5: Gobekli Tepe

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 6

Latin America Inverts the World Map: A Conversation With Margarita Fajardo

China, pt. 2 -- Water and Music: Early Chinese Philosophy

Teaser -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories

Unlocked: Doorways in Time, 2 -- Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 5

China, pt. 1 -- Making the Middle Kingdom

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 19: Three Silver Higa Amulets, mid-1700s

UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 16: The "PW" Hadley Chest, 1690-1710

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 4

Taking Stock of 5 Years of Historiansplaining, & Teaser: The Library of Ashurbanipal

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 3

Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 2

Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 1

Myth of the Month 16: The Founding Fathers

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 2

Dissecting the "Dawn of Everything" -- A Conversation with Geoff Shullenberger

Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 1

Update, and Teaser: Jesuit Brass Medallion with Ignatius Loyola

Uncovering the Medieval Slave Trade -- A Conversation with Hannah Barker

2021 in Historical Context -- Global Crisis, Labor Unrest, and "It's A Wonderful Life"

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 14: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair

Blood and Oil: The History of Tulsa

Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology

Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 3: The Terracotta Army & the Tomb of Qin

Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later

Myth of the Month 18: Robin Hood -- pt. 1: The Master of the Forest

India -- pt. 2: Foundations of Hinduism

India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 17: The Hiawatha Belt

Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 12: The Naylor Bowling Ball, 1670-1700

Chasidic Judaism: What is it and where did it come from?

Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History

The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View

Before Jamestown: When England Colonized the Amazon -- A Conversation with Melissa Morris

Thank you to patrons & Teaser: The Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels

UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 12, Finale: The Historical King Arthur

1066: Sailing Into the Storm

Dutch Batavia and the Ideology of Early Modern Empire -- A Conversation with Deborah Hamer

Myth of the Month 17: Anglo-Saxonism

History of the British and Irish Travellers

History of the Roma ("Gypsies"), part 1 -- From Ancient Origins to the Eighteenth Century

Freemasonry -- Its Growth and Spread Before 1789

War & Pandemic, a Historian's Perspective; and Teaser: "The Founding Fathers"

Emergency Podcast: The Royal Crisis in Historical Context

The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 2

The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement

The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 1

UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 10: The Peregrine White Cradle, ca. 1620

Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697

Special Comment: Our Wonderful Year; & Teaser: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair

The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road

TEASER -- Myth of the Month 14: Astrology

Age of Absolutism 3: Bourbon France, 1589-1789

Colonial Latin America -- The Baroque Age, 1542-1764

England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685

Anglo-Saxon England and the Vikings, 757-1066

The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War

The Trials of Bolivia: A Conversation with Oliver Rhoads Murphey

Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects, 8 -- Pueblo Communion Chalice

Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"

Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"

Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age

The Spanish Flu, pt. 1 -- A World in Ashes, 1918-1920

Through a Glass Darkly: The 1980s in Current Television -- A Conversation with Sonia Saraiya

Back to the Dark Age: How People Adapted to the Fall of the Roman Empire

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 6: Bronze Cannon with Fleur-de-Lis Emblem, 1540s

Teaser -- Myth of the Month 10: The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy

Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right

Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"

Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"

Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man

The Road to Civil War: Class Conflict and Constitutional Crisis in Stuart England, 1603-1650

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 4: The Maine Norse Coin

In the Ocean of Land: The History of Central Asia -- pt. 1

Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals

Myth of the Month 4: Secularization -- or, Send in the Nones!

Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603

History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 2: Statuette of a Farming Goddess, ca. 1100 AD

Notre Dame and the Nine Lives of Gothic Cathedrals

Myth of the Month 2: The Exodus

History of Universities, Part 1: Flower of the Middle Ages

Book Review: "Why Liberalism Failed" -- Part 1

Age of Absolutism 1: Central Europe and the Rise of the Habsburgs

Scientific Revolution, Part 1 -- Alchemy and Apocalypse, 1500-1660

The History of Scotland, the Romance of Scotland, and "Outlander"

Age of Ice and Fire: The General Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century

Witchcraft and the Great Witch-Hunt, 1484-1700

Renaissance Humanism

Update and a Challenge to My Listeners

The Myths We Make: Using the past as an ideological tool

Spanish and Portuguese Expansion and the Conquest of the Americas

The Print and Gunpowder Revolutions, 1300-1700

Book Review: "The Strange Death of Europe" -- Part 1

Islam 1: Muhammad, the first Caliphate, and the core teachings

Land of Vital Blood: Pre-Columbian America

In Search of the Dawn: Human Prehistory

Goodbye to Catalonia?

Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma

The Confederacy -- Its Roots and Its Legacies

The Historical Jesus

Who Wrote the Bible? -- Hebrew Scriptures

Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?

Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View

Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)

Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies

Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?

Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages

Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages