Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
By Samuel Biagetti, PhD
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So much of what we learn in a standard history class, and in the culture around us, are just cliff-note narratives, crafted to explain how things appear, rather than how things actually came to be. Peel back the layers of time and place with this thoroughly researched, college-level history podcast with over 200 episodes that uncover the forgotten forces that shaped – and that are still shaping – our world today.
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Reading -- New England poems: Lowell & Sexton
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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Newfoundland: The Amphibious Province, 1610-1697
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Excerpt: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 2: Sometimes a Garrote is Just a Garrote
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Doorways in Time, pt. 11: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 1: Something Isn't Rotten in the State of Denmark
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Unlocked: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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French Canada, pt. 2 -- Envisioning a Province, 1648-1688
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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French Canada, pt. 1 -- Unlocking the Gates of the Continent, 1608-1648
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Unlocked: Italy: Nation-Building Struggles & the Entry Into World War I, 1861-1915
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Excerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn
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May 26, 2026 |
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Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 1: Conceiving a Catastrophe
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May 14, 2026 |
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Virginia, pt. 2 -- A Dominion on Fire, 1646-1685
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Excerpt: Virginia, pt. 1 -- The Successful Failure, 1607-1646
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Unlocked: History of United States in 100 Objects -- Beaver Fur Hat, 1590-1670
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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The Elizabethan Dream: How England Became a Sea Power
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Acadia: First Foothold in the North
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 25: "Wilkes And Liberty" Cufflink Jewel, 1760s
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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New Mexico: From Prehistory to the Pueblo Revolt
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Unlocked -- The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Excerpt: The Great Archaeological Discoveries -- Pt. 10: Çatalhöyük
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Excerpt: Crucible of the Continent: Central Africa before 1700
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Cities of Iron & Gold: West Africa Before 1700
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Halloween Reading & Thank you to Patrons
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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"I Do Not Need a Lecture from You About Idealism" -- The Political Ideology of RWRB
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 2: Analysis
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Ireland: From Prehistory to the Protestant Ascendancy
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Myth of the Month 25: Nations
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 2: Expelling the Twentieth Century
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 8 -- The Dead Sea Scrolls
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The History of Deportation in America -- pt. 1: Banishment By Another Name
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Excerpt: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 1
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Update & Excerpt -- Italy: Nation-Building & Entry Into World War I
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 13 -- The July Crisis & the Outbreak of War
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May 27, 2025 |
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Italy: Revolution, Risorgimento, & Unification, 1789-1870
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May 18, 2025 |
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Korea, pt. 2 -- The Perfect Kingdom
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Update & Excerpt -- History of the United States in 100 Obects: Beaver-Fur Hat
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Korea, pt. 1 -- Dragons from Small Streams
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Dicoveries -- 9: Troy -- pt. 2: Cutting the Trojan Knot
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 10 -- Japan
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, 9: Troy -- pt. 1: The Odyssey in Reverse
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Thank you to patrons, & Teaser: The History of Venice, pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Life in the House of Cards: 2024 in Historical Context
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 2: Seasons of Power & Pleasure
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 1: From Asylum to Empire
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Teaser: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 2: Analysis
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Teaser: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 6: Germany
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Creating the Caribbean: The Colonial West Indies -- pt. 2: The High Plantation Period, 1697-1791
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 23: The Touro Synagogue Torah Finials
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Teaser: Doorways in Time, pt. 8 -- The Dead Sea Scrolls
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 14 -- Conclusions: Was the Great War Inevitable?
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: Origins of the First World War, pt. 4 -- Bosnia & the Assassination
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Myth of the Month 22: Culture
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May 08, 2024 |
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Audio from video -- "Red White and Royal Blue" pt. 1 -- The Historical Context of RWRB
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May 07, 2024 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 12 -- War Planning & Strategy
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 11 -- The 19th-Century Revolution in Warfare
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Article: "In the American Tempest: Democracy, Conspiracy, & Machine"
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Teaser: "Origins of the First World War -- pt. 10: Japan"
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Audio track from video -- Red White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- Intro
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 6 -- Early Audio Recordings
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 9 -- Great Britain
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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2023 in Historical Context: Dividing the Harvest
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 8 -- France
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Myth of the Month 23: UFOs
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Unlocked: History of US in 100 Objects #20 -- Silver Beaker with Devil and Pope Figures
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 7 -- Belgium & Luxembourg
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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TEASER: Origins of the First World War, pt. 6 -- Germany
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 3 -- audio track
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 22: The Makauwahi Stone Mirror / Kilo Pohaku
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 5 -- Russia
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 7: The Antikythera Mechanism
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Teaser: Origins of the 1st World War -- Bosnia & the Assassination
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 3 -- Austria-Hungary
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 2 -- audio track
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Interpreting Solomon's Temple
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May 28, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 4 -- The Library of Ashurbanipal
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May 26, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 2 -- Serbia
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May 22, 2023 |
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Teaser -- Myth of the Month 22: Culture
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May 11, 2023 |
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Origins of the First World War, pt. 1 -- The Ottoman Empire
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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India, pt. 3 -- The Rise of the South & the Islamic Conquests
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Video lecture: Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 1, audio track
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 21: The Braddock/Washington Pistol
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Update & teaser: Doorways in Time, #6 -- Early Audio Recordings
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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UNLOCKED: Hist. of the U.S. in 100 Objects -- 18: Jesuit Brass Medallion with I. Loyola
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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The Vikings, pt. 1 -- In the Norsemen's World
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Myth of the Month 21: The Old West
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Update: Historiansplaining in Crisis, & Teaser: Silver Beaker with Devil & Pope Figures
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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UNLOCKED: Robin Hood, pt. 2: Capturing the Outlaw
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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James II & the "Glorious Revolution"
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 5: Gobekli Tepe
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 6
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Latin America Inverts the World Map: A Conversation With Margarita Fajardo
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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China, pt. 2 -- Water and Music: Early Chinese Philosophy
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Teaser -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Unlocked: Doorways in Time, 2 -- Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 5
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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China, pt. 1 -- Making the Middle Kingdom
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 19: Three Silver Higa Amulets, mid-1700s
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 16: The "PW" Hadley Chest, 1690-1710
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 4
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Taking Stock of 5 Years of Historiansplaining, & Teaser: The Library of Ashurbanipal
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 3
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May 12, 2022 |
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Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 2
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 1
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Myth of the Month 16: The Founding Fathers
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 2
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Dissecting the "Dawn of Everything" -- A Conversation with Geoff Shullenberger
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 1
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Update, and Teaser: Jesuit Brass Medallion with Ignatius Loyola
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Uncovering the Medieval Slave Trade -- A Conversation with Hannah Barker
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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2021 in Historical Context -- Global Crisis, Labor Unrest, and "It's A Wonderful Life"
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 14: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Blood and Oil: The History of Tulsa
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 3: The Terracotta Army & the Tomb of Qin
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Myth of the Month 18: Robin Hood -- pt. 1: The Master of the Forest
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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India -- pt. 2: Foundations of Hinduism
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 17: The Hiawatha Belt
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 12: The Naylor Bowling Ball, 1670-1700
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Chasidic Judaism: What is it and where did it come from?
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Before Jamestown: When England Colonized the Amazon -- A Conversation with Melissa Morris
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Thank you to patrons & Teaser: The Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 12, Finale: The Historical King Arthur
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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1066: Sailing Into the Storm
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Dutch Batavia and the Ideology of Early Modern Empire -- A Conversation with Deborah Hamer
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Myth of the Month 17: Anglo-Saxonism
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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History of the British and Irish Travellers
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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History of the Roma ("Gypsies"), part 1 -- From Ancient Origins to the Eighteenth Century
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May 14, 2021 |
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Freemasonry -- Its Growth and Spread Before 1789
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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War & Pandemic, a Historian's Perspective; and Teaser: "The Founding Fathers"
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Emergency Podcast: The Royal Crisis in Historical Context
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 2
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 1
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 10: The Peregrine White Cradle, ca. 1620
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Special Comment: Our Wonderful Year; & Teaser: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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TEASER -- Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Age of Absolutism 3: Bourbon France, 1589-1789
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Colonial Latin America -- The Baroque Age, 1542-1764
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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The Trials of Bolivia: A Conversation with Oliver Rhoads Murphey
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects, 8 -- Pueblo Communion Chalice
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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The Spanish Flu, pt. 1 -- A World in Ashes, 1918-1920
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Back to the Dark Age: How People Adapted to the Fall of the Roman Empire
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 6: Bronze Cannon with Fleur-de-Lis Emblem, 1540s
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Teaser -- Myth of the Month 10: The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 4: The Maine Norse Coin
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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In the Ocean of Land: The History of Central Asia -- pt. 1
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Myth of the Month 4: Secularization -- or, Send in the Nones!
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 2: Statuette of a Farming Goddess, ca. 1100 AD
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May 17, 2019 |
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Notre Dame and the Nine Lives of Gothic Cathedrals
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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Myth of the Month 2: The Exodus
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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History of Universities, Part 1: Flower of the Middle Ages
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Book Review: "Why Liberalism Failed" -- Part 1
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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Age of Absolutism 1: Central Europe and the Rise of the Habsburgs
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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Scientific Revolution, Part 1 -- Alchemy and Apocalypse, 1500-1660
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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The History of Scotland, the Romance of Scotland, and "Outlander"
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Age of Ice and Fire: The General Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Witchcraft and the Great Witch-Hunt, 1484-1700
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Renaissance Humanism
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Update and a Challenge to My Listeners
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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The Myths We Make: Using the past as an ideological tool
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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Spanish and Portuguese Expansion and the Conquest of the Americas
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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The Print and Gunpowder Revolutions, 1300-1700
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Book Review: "The Strange Death of Europe" -- Part 1
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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Islam 1: Muhammad, the first Caliphate, and the core teachings
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Land of Vital Blood: Pre-Columbian America
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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In Search of the Dawn: Human Prehistory
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Goodbye to Catalonia?
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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The Confederacy -- Its Roots and Its Legacies
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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The Historical Jesus
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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Who Wrote the Bible? -- Hebrew Scriptures
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Jul 30, 2017 |
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Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies
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May 17, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?
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May 03, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages
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Apr 05, 2017 |