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Western Civ — 595 episodes
Episode 546: Red October
Episode 545: April Theses to July Days
Episode 544: Lenin
Episode 543: The Roots of Revolution
Episode 542: Meat Grinder
Episode 541: Stalemate
Episode 540: Tannenberg
Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations
Western Civ 2.0: Trajan (Part Four)
Episode 539: The Miracle at the Marne
Episode 538: The Spark
Episode 537: Sleepwalkers
Episode 536: American Imperialism
When Companies Run The Courts
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Episode 535: I won't be Reconstructed...
Episode 534: European Supernova
Europe: A New History
Episode 533: Blood and Iron
Episode 532: Italy
Episode 531: Canons to the Right of Them!
Episode 530: Russia Awakens
Episode 529: We Hold These Truths
Episode 528: Gettysburg
Episode 527: The War Goes North
Episode 526: The Seven Days Battles
Episode 525: Shiloh
Episode 524: Bull Run
Episode 523: A House Divided
Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets
Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
Episode 521: The Irish Potato Famine
Episode 520: The Revolutions of 1848
Episode 519: Do You Hear The People Sing?
Episode 518: The Age of Jackson
Episode 517: Greek Independence and the Revolutions of 1830
Episode 516: The Industrial Revolution
Episode 515: The Liberator
Episode 514: The Mexican War of Independence
Episode 513: Slavery's Long Shadow
Worlds of Islam: A Global History
Episode 512: The Congress of Vienna
Episode 511: The Hundred Days
Episode 510: The March to Moscow
Episode 509: The War of 1812
Episode 508: The Jefferson Administration
Episode 507: France Ascendant
Episode 506: Austerlitz
Episode 505: Consul for Life
Episode 504: The Revolution of 1800
Episode 503: The End of the Revolution
A Brief History of Financial Bubbles
Episode 502: To Egypt
Episode 501: Napoleon's Northern Italian Campaign
Episode 500: A Whiff of Grapeshot
Episode 499: The Rise of Louverture
Episode 498: The Terror
Episode 497: The Terror Begins
Episode 496: The Trial of Louis XVI
Episode 495: The Fall of the King
Episode 494: Saint-Dominque
Episode 493: The Flight of the Royals
Episode 492: Bread and the Church
Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
Episode 491: The Women's March
Episode 490: The Fall of the Bastille
War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why
Episode 489: The Estates-General
Episode 488: The Flood
Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War
Episode 487: The Old Regime
Episode 486: The Young Republic
The Romans: A 2,000 Year History
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Episode 485: The American Revolution Part Three
Episode 484: The American Revolution Part Two
Episode 483: The American Revolution Part One
1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
Episode 482: The Boiling Pot
Episode 481: The Partition of Poland
Episode 480: The Seven Years War
Episode 479: Storm on the Horizon
Episode 478: Pirates!
Episode 477: Prussia
Episode 476: Peter the Great
Episode 475: Europe and North America at the Turn of the Century
Episode 474: The Sun King
Episode 473: The English Civil War (Part Ten)
Episode 472: The English Civil War (Part Nine)
Episode 471: The English Civil War (Part Eight)
Episode 470: The English Civil War (Part Seven)
Episode 469: The English Civil War (Part Six)
Episode 468: The English Civil War (Part Five)
Episode 467: The English Civil War (Part Four)
Episode 466: The English Civil War (Part Three)
Episode 465: The English Civil War (Part Two)
Episode 464: The English Civil War (Part One)
Episode 463: The War Begins
Episode 462: Brave New World
Episode 461: The Fall of the Earl
Episode 460: The Bishops War
Episode 459: Personal Rule
Episode 458: Charles Alone
Episode 457: The Death of the Duke
Episode 456: Charles I
Episode 455: Salem
Episode 454: Bacon's Rebellion
Native American History and Culture 4
Native American History and Culture 3
Native American Culture and History 2
Native American Culture and History 1
Episode 453: The Land of Dissent
Air Battles Before D-Day: How Allied Airmen Crippled the Luftwaffe and German Army in France
And Housing for All
Episode 452: A City Upon A Hill
Episode 451: The Voyage of the Mayflower
Jamestown Part Five
Jamestown Part Three
Jamestown Episode Reminder
The Year That Made America
The Pathfinder and the President
Jamestown Part One
Episode 450: Dutch Colonization
Episode 449: New France and Roanoke
Episode 448: Portuguese colonization
Episode 447: The New World Exploited
Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
Episode 446: Louis XIII
Episode 445: War and Peace
Episode 444: The End of the Baltic War
Episode 443: A New Alliance
Episode 342: The War in Germany
Episode 341: The War After Adolphus
Episode 340: The Lion of the North
Episode 339: Denmark Intervenes
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War
Episode 338: Cardinal Richelieu
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
Episode 337: Fall of the Winter King
Episode 336: The Defenestration of Prague
Episode 335: The Eve of War
Episode 334: On The Brink
Episode 333: Denmark
Episode 332: The Spanish Juggernaut
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Episode 331: And the Ottomans...
Episode 330: House Austria
Episode 329: The Religions of the Empire
Episode 328: The Empire
Early Modern Overview Four: Religion, Economics, and Technology
Early Modern Overview Three: Politics and Culture
Early Modern Europe Part One: 1450
Episode 327: Ivan the Terrible (Part Four)
Episode 326: Ivan the Terrible (Part Three)
Episode 325: Ivan the Terrible (Part Two)
Episode 324: Ivan the Terrible (Part One)
Episode 323: Russian Review
Episode 322: The End of James I
Episode 321: Trouble in Germany
The Bible: A Global History
Episode 320: King and Parliament
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
Episode 319: The Gunpowder Plot
Episode 318: James I
Episode 317: Henry IV of France
Episode 316: The End of Tudor England
Western Civ 2.0 Episode 73: Tiberius Gracchus
Episode 315: England Triumphant
Episode 314: The End of the Valois
Episode 313: The Armada
Episode 312: The Tragical Execution
Episode 311: Henri III
Episode 310: The Death of Charles IX
Episode 309: English Intrigues
Episode 308: The Sedentary Sultan
Episode 307: Selim II and the Battle of Lepanto
Episode 306: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Episode 305: The Second War of Religion
One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests
Episode 304: The Grand Tour
Episode 303: Gloriana
Episode 302: Queens North and South
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Episode 301: Without an Heir
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
Episode 300: Huguenots and Catholics
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Bellé Epoch
Episode 299: The "Rightful" Queen of England
Western Civ 2.0: The First Punic War
Episode 298: Francis II - The Shadow King of France
Episode 297: King Robert Dudley?
Episode 296: The Virgin Queen
Episode 295: The Unknown Queen
Episode 294: The Dutch Rebellion
Episode 293: Burning England
Episode 292: Bloody Mary
Episode 291: Queen Mary's Early Reign
Episode 290: A Glorious Union
Episode 289: Promise Unfulfilled
Episode 288: Dudley and the English Reformation
Episode 287: Upheaval
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Vietnam: A New History
Episode 286: The Lord Admiral Falls
Episode 285: Henri II, King of France
Episode 284: A New King
Episode 283: Henry and Catherine
Episode 282: The New Josiah
Bonus: Warfare in the Crusades
Episode 281: The Heir
Episode 280: Galileo's Trial
Episode 279: The Inquisition Structure and Organization
In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
Episode 278: The Inquisition and the Reformation
The Eunuch
Episode 277: God's Fire
The Book at War
Episode 276: The Coming of the Inquisition
Episode 275: The Jews of Spain
Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
Episode 274: Galileo Part Six
Episode 273: Galileo Part Five
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
Episode 272: Galileo Part Four
Richard Nixon: California's Native Son
Episode 271: Galileo Part Three
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Bonus Author Interview: Techlash
Bonus: Western Civ 2.0
Episode 270: Galileo Part Two
Episode 269: Galileo Part One
Around the World in 80 Games
Episode 268: Tycho Brahe
Episode 267: Copernicus (Part Four)
Pax: An Interview with Historian Tom Holland
Episode 266: Copernicus (Part Three)
Episode 265: Copernicus (Part Two)
Episode 264: Copernicus (Part One)
Bonus Author Interview: Bismarck's War
Episode 263: Facts and Experiments
1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch
Episode 262: The Science of Math
Episode 261: Defining Earth
Episode 260: The Scientific Revolution Begins
Episode 259: Hernando de Soto (Part Two)
Episode 259: Hernando de Soto (Part One)
Booze, Babe, and the Little Black Dress
Episode 258: The Inca's Last Stand
Episode 257: The Last of the Pizarros
Bonus: Travel Colombia
Episode 256: To The Amazon
Episode 255: Almagro Returns
Episode 254: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Episode 253: The Great Rebellion
Episode 252: Cracks in the Foundation
Episode 251: The Martyr Emperor and the Puppet Emperor
Episode 250: Rooms Full of Gold
Episode 249: Atahualpa and Pizarro
Episode 248: Atahualpa
Episode 247: Francisco Pizarro
Episode 246: The Inca
Western Civ 2.0: Macedonia
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Episode 245: People of the Andes
Episode 244: Aftermath
Episode 243: The Battle for Tenochtitlan
The Assyrians
Episode 242: Spanish Recovery
Episode 241: La Noche Triste
Episode 240: Montezuma and Cortés
Episode 239: Tenochtitlan
Episode 238: Who Needs "Orders" Anyway?
Episode 237: A Gentlemanly Pirate
Episode 236: Cortés
Episode 235: Temples on the Sea
Immeasurable Outcomes
History Ramble: All That is Lost
Queens of a Fallen World
Episode: 234: The Aztecs
Episode 233: Painting with a Broad Brush
Episode 232: The Maya
Episode 231: Suleiman's Final Years
A Woman's Life
Episode 230: Ottoman High Tide
No Right To An Honest Living
Episode 229: Ottoman Menace
Episode 228: Suleiman the Magnificent
Episode 227: Sultan of the Faith
Episode 226: After Constantinople
Episode 225: The End of an Era
Episode 224: Give Peace a Chance
Episode 223: At It Again
Episode 222: So, Back on the Continent
Bonus: The Mongol Storm
Episode 221: The Not So Merry Wives of Henry VIII
Episode 220: Supremacy
Episode 219: The King's Great Matter
Episode 218: The Origins of the English Reformation
Episode 217: Fallout
Bonus: On Every Tide
Episode 216: Pavia
Episode 215: Francis Surrounded
Episode 214: Henry and Francis and Charles... Oh, my!
Bonus: The Rise of Sparta
Episode 213: Blood, Gold, and Glory
Episode 212: The Prophecy
Episode 211: New Men and Counselors
Episode 210: A Renaissance Prince
Episode 209: Tudor Spring
Episode 208: Continental Ambitions
Episode 207: The Winter King
Episode 206: Henry VII
Episode 205: Tudor Rose
Episode 204: The Catholic Response and Reformation Recap
Episode 203: Calvin's Shadow
Episode 202: Healing Christ's Body
Episode 201: Back in Geneva
Episode 200: The Institutes of the Christian Religion
History Ramble Three: The Tale of the Gun
Episode 199: John Calvin
Episode 198: Zwingli's Death and Legacy
The Persians: An Interview with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Episode 197: Reform in Zurich
History Ramble Two: The History of Time
Announcement
Episode 196: Ulrich Zwingli
Episode 195: Martin Luther and His Legacy
Episode 194: The Peasants' War
The True Story of Cinco de Mayo
Interview with Jon Marshall, Author of "CLASH: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis"
History Ramble: The President Vs. The Press
Episode 193: Enemies and Friends
Episode 192: The Diet of Worms
Bonus Author Interview: Mutinous Women
Episode 191: The Ninety-Five Theses
Episode 190: Martin Luther
Episode 189: Pope Julius II and Leo X
Episode 188: The End of the Borgia Age
Episode 187: Borgia High Tide
Episode 186: Cesare Borgia
Episode 185: The Borgia Family Business
A Brief History of Ukraine
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Episode 184: Pope Alexander VI
Presidential Draft With Author Scott Rank
Episode 183: Rodrigo Borgia
Episode 182: Nicholas V - Innocent VIII
Interview with Jason Voiovich Author of "Marketer in Chief"
Episode 181.5: The Fall of Christendom
Episode 181: The Avignon Papacy
Episode 180: The Medieval Church
Bonus: The Fabric of Civilization
Episode 179: Late Medieval Religion
Interview with Jeremy Popkin: A New World Begins
Preview: It's All Greek To Me
Bonus: Cleopatra of Egypt and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Hitler's American Gamble
The Greeks: An Interview with Roderick Benton
Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
A History of Thanksgiving
Age of Discovery Recap
James Madison: An Interview with Jay Cost
Episode 178: Ponce de Leon
The Library: A Fragile History
Episode 177: The Ship of the Dead
The Sword and the Shield
Episode 176: The Final Battle
Firepower!
Episode 175: Passing the Dragon's Tail
Interview with Edward Shawcross, Author of "The Last Emperor of Mexico"
Episode 174: Magellan
Supplemental: Life at Sea
Episode 173: John Cabot
Episode 172: The Setting Sun
Episode 171: Empire of the Ocean Waves
Episode 170: Operation Smithereens
Episode 169: Homeward Bound
Episode 168: India
Episode 167: Up The Coast
Episode 166: The Unknown Captain
Episode 165: To the Ends of the Earth
Episode 164: Castaways
Episode 163: A Not-So-Happy Homecoming
Episode 162: Roldan's Revolt
Episode 161: Blood in a Virgin World
Episode 160: There and Back Again
Episode 159: Lost
Episode 158: Discovery
Episode 157: Son of Genoa
Episode 156: Henry the Navigator
Preview: The Search For Atlantis (Part Two)
Bonus: Preview Russian Revolution
Bonus: The Russian Revolution Interview
Episode 155: The Reconquista (Part Four)
Episode 154: The Reconquista (Part Three)
Episode 153: The Reconquista (Part Two)
Episode 152: The Reconquista (Part One)
History of Western Thought Four Preview
Interview with Meditations Translator Robin Waterfield
Bonus Audiobook Preview
Episode 151: The Wars of the Roses (Part Five)
Episode 150: The Wars of the Roses (Part Four)
Episode 149: The Wars of the Roses (Part Three)
Bonus: The History of St. Patrick's Day
Episode 148: The Wars of the Roses (Part Two)
Episode 147: The Wars of the Roses (Part One)
Episode 146: Victorious
Episode 145: To The East
The History of Valentine's Day
Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius of Imagination
Episode 144: The Renaissance in Eastern Europe
The Development of Renaissance Art
Episode 143: The Italian Renaissance Part Three
Episode 142: The Italian Renaissance Part Two
A History of Classical Greek Medicine
Episode 141: The Italian Renaissance Part One
Supplemental: Europe at 1450
Bonus: The History of Christmas
Interview with Historian Robin Lane Fox
Bonus: Alexander Redux
Episode 140: Triumph of the Crescent Moon
Episode 139: On Knife's Edge
Preview: The Search for Atlantis
Episode 138: To The Breach
A History of Veterans Day
Alexander Redux Part Five: Cutting the Knot
Bonus: A History of Halloween
Episode 137: Cannons
Philip and Alexander: An Interview with Historian Adrian Goldsworthy
Episode 136: Opening Moves
A History of Western Thought: Socrates
Episode 135: The Ottomans
Preview: A History of Western Thought
Episode 134: The Byzantines
Hundred Years War Recap
Episode 133: The Last Gasp
Episode 132: The Witch of Orleans
Announcement
Episode 131: King of England, King of France
Episode 130: We Few, We Happy Few
Episode 129: The End of the Plantagents
Episode 128: Black 1376
Free Audiobook!!!
Episode 127: The Black Prince
Supplemental: The Black Death and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Announcement!
Black Death Recap
Episode 126: The Long Shadow
Supplemental: Medieval Leisure and Sport
Episode 125: The Flagellants
The Great (Medieval) English Bake Off
Episode 124: The End of the Line
Supplemental: Let's Get Gothic!
Supplemental: Let's Build a Cathedral!
Episode 123: The Summer of Death
Episode 122: The Hundred Years War
Episode 121: The Perils of the Papacy
Episode 120: The Final Word
Episode 119: Dealing In Death
Episode 118: First Blood
Episode 117: The Conditions of a Pandemic
Episode 116: The Science of Death
Supplemental: Europe on the Eve of the Black Death
Episode 115: The Favorite
Episode 114: Edward Longshanks and Philip the Fair
Episode 113: Henry III
Episode 112: All That Remains
Episode 111: The Last Crusade
Episode 110: Pax Mongolica
Episode 109: Mongol World War
Episode 108: The Great Khan
Episode 107: The Hostage King
Episode 106: Stupor Mundi (Part Two)
Episode 105: Stupor Mundi (Part One)
Episode 104: A Brothers Tale
Episode 103: The Lionheart and the Devil
Episode 102: The Fourth Crusade - A Whole New Low
Episode 101: Byzantine Update
Episode 100: Endgame
Episode 99: Battlefield Acre
Episode 98: The Surging Wave
Episode 97: Frederick Barbarossa
Episode 96: Saladin and the Leper King
Episode 95: The Goodness of the Faith
Episode 94: The Perils of Prosperity
Episode 93: A Royal Mess
Supplemental: Early Medieval Music
Supplemental: Early Medieval Architecture
92: Calling All Arms
Episode 91: The Crusader States (Part Two)
Episode 90: The Crusader States Part One
Episode 89: The Holy City
Episode 88: Fortress Antioch
Episode 87: Into Asia
Episode 86: The Gathering Storm
Supplemental: Medieval Art Part Two
Supplemental: Early Medieval Art Part One
85:Early Medieval Italy
Episode 84: Social and Political Transformation in Medieval Italy
Episode 83: Holier Than Thou
Episode 82: The Holy Roman Empire
Episode 81: The Governors of the World
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Episode 79: Al-Andalus
Episode 78: Low Tide
Episode 77: The Norman Conquest Part Four
Episode 76: The Norman Invasion Part Three
Episode 75: The Norman Invasion Part Two
Episode 74: The Norman Conquest Part One
Episode 73: Why 1000?
Episode 71: What Exactly is the "Dark Ages"?
Episode 70: The Magyars
Episode 69: The End of the Carolingian Empire
Voices: Norse Mythology
Episode 68: The Fury of the Northmen (Part Three)
Episode 67: Byzantine Apoge
Episode 66: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
Episode 65: Alfred the Great
Episode 64: The Fury of the Northmen (Part Two)
Episode 63: Iconoclasm
Episode 62: The Fury of the Northmen (Part One)
Episode 61: The Northmen
Episode 60: Anglo-Saxon England (650-825)
Episode 59: The Birth of Modern Europe
Episode 58: Carolingian Empire (Medieval France Under Charlemagne)
Supplemental: Monasticism in Medieval Europe
Supplemental: Gregory The Great
Episode 57: The Dawn of Feudalism (Early Medieval France 583 - 751)
Episode 56: Back To Italy (Medieval Italy and Spain 568-720)
Episode 55: The House of War (632-717)
Episode 54: Life After Justinian (Byzantium 565-638)
Episode 53: The British Isles in the Early Dark Ages (406-650 AD)
Episode 52: Belisarius (533-565)
Episode 51: The Shattered West (Western Europe 476-533)
Episode 50: A Brave New World
Episode 49: Recap and Setting the Stage
Supplemental: Top Ten Best And Worst Roman Emperors
Episode 48: The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Episode 47: Attila The Hun
Episode 46: The Last Great Romans
Episode 45: The Sack of Rome
Episode 44: A World Changed
Episode 43: Two Steps Forward.... And Three Back
Episode 42: New Rome
Episode 41: The Rule of Four
Episode 40: Things Fall Apart
Episode 39: The End of the Beginning
Episode 38: Glory Days
Episode 37: The Year of the Four Emperors and the Flavian Dynasty
Episode 36: The Julio-Claudians (Part Two)
Episode 35: The Julio-Claudians (Part One)
Supplemental: A Roman Tour
Supplemental: A Day In The Life Of A Roman
Supplemental: The Eternal City
Supplemental: Ancient and Classical Recap
Episode 34: Augustan Peace
Episode 33: Augustus
Episode 32: World War
Episode 31: A Way Out
Episode 30: The Ides Of March
Episode 29: Rubicon
Episode 28: The Whole of Gaul Is Divided Into Three Parts...
Episode 27: Publius Clodius To Center Stage
Episode 26: Cato, Catiline, and the Courts
Episode 25: I Am Spartacus
Episode 24: Dictator
Episode 23: Growing Pains
Episode 22: Delenda Est Carthago
Episode 21: Scipio Africanus and the End of the Second Punic War
Episode 20: The War Across the Sea
Episode 19: A Seemingly Endless String of Disasters
Episode 18: Crossing The Alps
Supplemental: Life In Classical Athens
Episode 17: The First Punic War
Episode 16: Casus Belli
Episode 15: Enter Stage Left The Romans
Episode 14: To The Strongest
Episode 13: Alexander The Great
Supplemental: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Episode 12: The Peloponnesian Wars and Macedon
Episode 11: Traitors, Martyrs, and Victory
Episode 10: The Classical Greek Phalanx
Episode 9: A New World Order
Episode 8: Babylon Makes a Comeback!
Episode 7: Sparta and Athens
Episode 6: The Assyrian Rollercoaster
Episode 5: It’s All Greek To Me
Episode 4: God’s Chosen People
Episode 3: Invasion and Expansion
Episode 2: Meanwhile, in Egypt…
Episode 1: The Near East
Introduction