All Episodes

Episode 175: Congo's Nightmare Part VII - The Great Forgetting

Episode 174: Congo's Nightmare Part VI - The End of the Congo Free State

Episode 173: Congo's Nightmare Part V - Shadow War

Episode 172: Congo's Nightmare Part IV - The Rubber Boom

Episode 171: Congo's Nightmare Part III - Ivory Terror

Episode 170: Congo's Nightmare Part II - A Slice of African Cake

Episode 169: Congo's Nightmare Part I - An Ancient Place

Episode 168: Never Let Me Go and The Bear

Episode 167: The Odyssey Part V - Purifying Memory (Books 21-24)

Episode 166: The Odyssey Part IV - There Will Be Blood (Books 17-20)

Episode 165: The Odyssey Part III - A Touch of Evil (Books 11-16)

Episode 164: The Odyssey Part II - The Wanderer (Books 6-10)

Episode 163: The Odyssey Part I - A Taste of Elysium (Books 1-5)

Episode 162: The Orchestration of Genocide with Alexandra Birch

Episode 161: Civilization and Its Discontents Part III-Before They Are Hanged

Episode 160: Civilization and Its Discontents Part II-Putting Out the Fire

Episode 159: Civilization and Its Discontents Part I-Psychoanalytic Happiness

Episode 158: Unraveling Historical Threads with Josh Johnson

Episode 157: What is Fascism?

Episode 156: The Fall of the Roman Republic

Episode 155: Aztec Memories-The Story of the Aztec Empire

Episode 154: Aztec Memories Part VIII-Columbian Nightmare

Episode 153: Aztec Memories Part VII-The Tickler

Episode 152: Aztec Memories Part VI-Mightier Than the Sword

Episode 151: Aztec Memories Part V-Crimson Sky

Episode 150: Aztec Memories Part IV-The Chontal Gift

Episode 149: Aztec Memories Part III-The City on the Lake

Episode 148: Aztec Memories Part II-A Memory Called Empire

Episode 147: Aztec Memories Part I-A Rose Not a Rose

BONUS: Arcane

Episode 146: Prehistory and Posthistory

Episode 145: Daughters of Shandong with Eve Chung

Episode 144: Aftersun

Episode 143: The Unseen Leader with Martin Gutmann

Episode 142: The Road Part III

Episode 141: The Road Part II

Episode 140: The Road Part I

Episode 139: Vagabond Princess with Ruby Lal

Episode 138: The Metamorphosis Part III

Episode 137: The Metamorphosis Part II

Episode 136: The Metamorphosis Part I

Episode 135: Fire and Blood

BONUS: The Library of Babel

Episode 134: Roma Part II

Episode 133: Roma Part I

Episode 132: The Mexican Dirty War Part VI-Spaces of Memory

Episode 131: The Mexican Dirty War Part V-Massacres and Memories

Episode 130: The Mexican Dirty War Part IV-Violence and Change

Episode 129: The Mexican Dirty War Part III-Revolution of the Mundane

Episode 128: The Mexican Dirty War Part II-Spectres of Revolution

Episode 127: The Mexican Dirty War Part I-The Politics of Memory

Episode 126: Reconstructing Emotion in History

Episode 125: Burning

BONUS: Staying Behind

Episode 124: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wounded World with Chad Williams

Episode 123: Piranesi

Episode 122: Story of Your Life

Episode 121: Ikiru

Episode 120: The Memory Police

Episode 119: The Buried Giant

BONUS: Dreams and the Supersensorium

Episode 118: What Remains Part IV-Generational Grief

Episode 117: What Remains Part III-Bodies and Burials

Episode 116: What Remains Part II-Wartime Identity

Episode 115: What Remains Part I-Reward and Punishment

Episode 114: The Taiping Civil War Part V-The Cost

Episode 113: The Taiping Civil War Part IV-The Outsiders

Episode 112: The Taiping Civil War Part III-The Rebel

Episode 111: The Taiping Civil War Part II-The Mixing Bowl

Episode 110: The Taiping Civil War Part I-The Pressure Cooker

BONUS: The Bear

Episode 109: On Full Automatic with William V. Taylor

Episode 108: Dear John with Susan Carruthers

Episode 107: Freedom and Tyranny

Episode 106: History at a Crossroads

Episode 105: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Episode 104: Education in Nazi Germany

Episode 103: The Man Who Ended History

Episode 102: On Fantasy

BONUS: History as a Process

Episode 101: Is the Human Element of History Exploitative?

Episode 100: Cast Away

Episode 99: Humanistic Psychology Part II

Episode 98: Humanistic Psychology Part I

Episode 97: Mono No Aware

Episode 96: Running From Bondage with Karen Cook Bell

Episode 95: Sprinting Through No Man's Land with Adin Dobkin

Episode 94: The Cambodian Genocide Part V-Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields

Episode 93: The Cambodian Genocide Part IV- First They Killed My Father

Episode 92: The Cambodian Genocide Part III: Reverberations of a Nightmare

BONUS: The Paper Menagerie

Episode 91: The Cambodian Genocide Part II-Endure and Survive

Episode 90: The Cambodian Genocide Part I-The Dark Years Begin

Episode 89: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Episode 88: The Fate of Rome Part IV-The Justinianic Plague and the End of Rome

Episode 87: They Thought They Were Free

Episode 86: The Fate of Rome Part III-The Crisis of the Third Century

Episode 85: The Fate of Rome Part II-The Antonine Plague

Episode 84: The Fate of Rome Part I-Climate Change and the Roman Empire

BONUS: On Bullshit

Episode 83: China Tripping Part III-Informal History

Episode 82: China Tripping Part II-Scars of the Past

Episode 81: China Tripping Part I-Ordinary History

Episode 80: The Refugee Experience and Finding Equilibrium with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao

Episode 79: Myths About Slavery

Episode 78: The Star

Episode 77: Against the Grain Part IV-Collapses and Dark Ages

Episode 76: Learning to Be You

Episode 75: Against the Grain Part III-Mortality and Early States

Episode 74: Against the Grain Part II-The Domus Complex

Episode 73: Against the Grain Part I-The Civilizational Narrative

Episode 72: This is Water

Episode 71: The Allegory of the Cave and Simulation Theory

Episode 70: Did Hitler Fix the German Economy?

Episode 69: The Bosnian War Part VII-The Women of Srebrenica

Episode 68: The Bosnian War Part VI-Safe Area Gorazde

Episode 67: The Bosnian War Part V-Forgiveness

Episode 66: The Bosnian War Part IV-War Journalism and The Tolerance Paradox

Episode 65: The American Civil War with S.C. Gwynne

Episode 64: The Bosnian War Part III-Hatred

Episode 63: The Bosnian War Part II-The Siege of Sarajevo

Episode 62: The Bosnian War Part I-The Perils of Nationalism

Episode 61: Chance, Randomness, and Luck in History

Episode 60: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part VI-Death by a Thousand Cuts

Episode 59: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part V-The New Normal

Episode 58: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part IV-You Win or You Die

Episode 57: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part III-The Gracchan Revolution

Episode 56: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part II-The Long Defeat

Episode 55: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part I-Features of the Republic

Episode 54: Diogenes the Cynic

Episode 53: African Sleeping Sickness

Episode 52: The Cultural Revolution Part VIII-The Silent Revolution

Episode 51: The Cultural Revolution Part VII-Mobilizing for War

Episode 50: The Cultural Revolution Part VI-The Army Intervenes

Episode 49: The Cultural Revolution Part V-The Hidden Victims

Episode 48: The Cultural Revolution Part IV-Red August

Episode 47: The Cultural Revolution Part III-A Culture of Paranoia

Episode 46: The Cultural Revolution Part II-Nine Fingers to One

Episode 45: The Cultural Revolution Part I-No Half Measures

Episode 44: Red Scarf Girl Part II-Party vs. Family

Episode 43: Red Scarf Girl Part I-Destroying the Four Olds

Episode 42: Where the World Ended- History and Identity in East Germany

Episode 41: Where the World Ended- Secrets, Politics, and Religion in East Germany

Episode 40: The Tao of Pooh- Taoism in the Modern World

Episode 39: The Tao of Pooh- The State of Education and Context

Episode 38: The Bystander Effect During the Holocaust

Episode 37: World War I-1919-Final Tally and Treaty of Versailles

Episode 36: World War I-1918-Desperate Times

Episode 35: World War I-1917-Exhaustion and Demoralization

Episode 34: Fake News and Propaganda During World War I

Episode 33: World War I-1916-Death Trap

Episode 32: World War I-1915-Horror Show

Episode 31: World War I-1914-Destroyed But Not Defeated

Episode 30: The Causes of World War I-Spreading the Blame

Episode 29: All Quiet on the Western Front

Episode 28: Christmas in the Trenches

Episode 27: The Amistad Rebellion-Going Home

Episode 26: The Amistad Rebellion-Origins and Middle Passage

Episode 25: The Clash of Civilizations

Episode 24: Trolley Problems and History

Episode 23: Rise of the Nazis-From Democracy to Dictatorship

Episode 22: Rise of the Nazis-The Third Reich Begins

Episode 21: Rise of the Nazis-Building the Movement

Episode 20: Rise of the Nazis-The Perfect Storm

Episode 19: The Xhosa Cattle Killing

Episode 18: Judging History and Moral Relativism

Episode 17: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Episode 16: The Great Leap Forward-Corpses For Dinner

Episode 15: The Great Leap Forward-Digging China's Grave

Episode 14: The Great Leap Forward

Episode 13: Ordinary Men

Episode 12: The Social War-The Tyranny of Deterioration

Episode 11: The Social War-When Conversation Fails

Episode 10: The Social War-The Beginning of the End

Episode 9: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Episode 8: Life of a Soldier

Episode 7: The Last War Between Gentleman

Episode 6: Benedict Arnold-Part II: The Villain

Episode 5: Benedict Arnold-Part I: The Hero

Episode 4: Historical Myth: Never Invade Russia in the Winter

Episode 3: Night

Episode 2: The Somme

Episode 1: The Russian Women's Battalion of Death

Episode 0: Introduction to Reflecting History