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Charlemagne's Dream: James T. Palmer on the Carolingians and the Dark Side of Empire
The Great Horse Flu: Thomas Andrews on the “Great Epizootic of 1872”, and the Fate of Reconstruction America
Librarian's War: Molly Guptill Manning on Ray Trautman and the Army of Readers
Glorious Fate: Kevin Levin on the short life and complicated afterlife of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts
Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall on a medieval survivor, a criminal investigation, and the limits of justice
Pericles of Athens: Paul Cartledge on the statesman, demagogue, and eccentric
Out of Chaos: Jon Wilson on how the Second World War led to the Nation-State
Ortiz's War: Nicholas Reynolds on the exploits of Peter J. Ortiz, a US Marine in occupied France
Trojan War: Barry Strauss on the history behind the epic poetry
Punctuation Remakes the World: Florence Hazrat on the hidden history of the marks that shape how we read, think, and communicate
He Has the People: Jonathan Earle on the momentous Election of 1860
Corn Syrup: Brian Leech does local history, regional history, labor history, technological history, environmental history, and food history
Louisiana Purchase: Alexander Mikaberidze on the grand bargain that made continental America
Offa the King: Rory Naismith writes the life of a great English king who has no biography
When the Declaration of Independence Was News: Emily Sneff on how people first encountered independence
National Treasure: Michael Auslin on the Declaration of Independence's two simultaneous lives
The Democracy We Must Keep: David Stewart on seven founders, nine documents, and the ideas that shaped them
Long Revolution: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on a century of talking about revolution
World Crisis: Richard Bell on the American Revolution as a global event
War Without Mercy: The American Revolution as an Existential War
Suitable: Chloe Chapin on the Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men
Contested Continent: Peter Mancall on the Struggle for North America, c. 1000–1680
Stalin's Apostles: Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five and their Service to the Soviet Empire
The First Ghetto: Alexander Lee on Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
Europe: A New History
Terrible Intimacy: Melvin Patrick Ely on Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
The Firearm Revolution: Catherine Fletcher on how the firearm changed society
Syria: Daniel Neep on the Modern History of a Very Old Place
The Great Historian: Andrew Meyer on Sima Qian and the invention of history
Introducing Historically Thinking Field Guides
Worse Than Hell: W. Fitzhugh Brundage on Prisoners of War and Prison Camps of the American Civil War
Civil War Religion: Timothy D. Grundmeier on Lutheranism, the Civil War Era, and American Culture
To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Seth Meyer on the Revolution of Classical China, and How It Changed Human History
Historically Thinking Roundtable: Historians, Historical Thinking, Civic Trust, and America at 250
Caesar Augustus: Adrian Goldsworthy on the First Emperor of Rome
The Great Shadow: Susan Wise Bauer on the History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
Inventing the Future: Bruno Carvalho on Cities, Planning, and the History of Urban Imagination
Lady Frances Berkeley/Amy Stallings: Bacon’s Rebellion, Colonial Virginia, and First-person Historical Interpretation
The Party's Interests Come First: Joseph Torigian on the Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Poinsettia Man: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele on Joel Roberts Poinsett, Adventures, Diplomacy, Espionage, Trade, Self-Dealing, South Carolina, and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Plato's Letters: Ariel Helfer on the Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
Vector: Robyn Arianrohd on the Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Oral History: Douglas A. Boyd explains the basics of the oldest—and newest—historical method
Love, War, and Diplomacy: Eric H. Cline on the Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
War and Power: Phillips Payson O’Brien on Who Wins Wars and Why
Bloody Crowns: Michael Livingston on Two Hundred Years of War, Power, and Transformation
Wolfpack: Roger Moorhouse on the view from inside of Hitler's U-Boat war
Republic and Empire: Andrew O’Shaughnessy on the global causes and consequences of the American Revolution
The Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive It
1942: Peter Fritzsche on the year when war engulfed the world
Fuji: Andrew Bernstein on the human history of the ever-changing mountain
Cold War Analogies: Francis J. Gavin on how (and how not) to use the Cold War as a guide
Prague: The Heart of Europe
Thinking Historically: Francis J. Gavin on What History Can Do for Policymakers...and the Rest of Us
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries (or More!) of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, with Barry Strauss
Amanda Roper, Public Historian
The Ramos Gin Fizz: A New Orleans Liquid History, with John Shelton Reed
Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, with Cara Rogers Stevens
Spellbound: Molly Worthen on Charisma, Four Centuries of American History, and the Search for Meaning
The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks, with James Delgado
Phantom Fleet: U-Boats, Codebreakers, and the Daring Capture of U-505, with Alexander Rose
Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy of the Western Christian Church, with Cosima Clara Gillhammer
Londoner, Lawyer, Humanist, Husband, Statesman, Saint: The Life of Thomas More, with Joanne Paul
The Accidental Tyrant: Kim Il-Sung’s Rise to Power, and How He Kept It, with Fyodor Tertitskiy
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, with John G. Turner
Revolution to Come: Dan Edelstein on Thinking About Revolution...and History
Stephen Aron and Barry Strauss on History, Engaging a Wider Public, and Intellectual Humility
Episode 406: Rogue Agent
Episode 405: Free Creations
Episode 404: Intellectual Humility, with Mikaberidze and Nelson
Episode 403: Visionary Histories
Episode 402: Broken Altars
Episode 401: Rot
Episode 400: Talking Cure
Episode 399: Replicating History
Episode 398: The Celts
Episode 397: Mutiny on the Black Prince
Episode 396: Obscure Important Historian
Episode 395: Summer of Fire and Blood
Episode 394: Greek Revolution
Episode 393: Lawless Republic
Episode 392: Papa von Ranke
391: Roman Roads
Episode 390: Atlantic Ocean
Episode 389: Indian Religions
Episode 388: Agent Zo
Episode 387: The Study
Episode 386: College Sports
Episode 385: Golden Years
Episode 384: Intent to Destroy
Episode 383: Quaker Founder
Episode 382: Women and the Reformations
Episode 381: Philosophy to the People
Episode 380: Madrid
Episode 379: Philadelphia
Episode 378: Old New World
Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)