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  • Episode 535: I won't be Reconstructed...

    Episode 535: I won't be Reconstructed...
    2026/05/08
    The era we call Reconstruction is one of the most hopeful, and ultimately, heartbreaking of American history. The passage of the Reconstruction Amendments provided legal rights to thousands of people. But the bargain of 1877 and the corruption of the Gilded Age ultimately prove too much weight for the promise of equality to bear.

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    43 分
  • Episode 534: European Supernova

    Episode 534: European Supernova
    2026/05/01
    In the second half of the 19th Century, Europe goes nuclear and expands across the globe. The "Scramble for Africa" and press for colonies drove the European states to compete with one another in ways that will have disasterous consequences.

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    34 分
  • Europe: A New History

    Europe: A New History
    2026/04/28
    In this bonus, author interview, I sit down with historian Roderick Beaton and discuss his latest book, Europe: A New History.

    What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a collective identity.

    Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, “Europe” has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves.

    Grappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.

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    45 分
  • Episode 533: Blood and Iron

    Episode 533: Blood and Iron
    2026/04/24
    In the span of a decade, Bismarck does the unthinkable. He unites Germany, changing the history of western civilization forever.

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    1 時間 25 分
  • Episode 532: Italy

    Episode 532: Italy
    2026/04/17
    Over a period of thirty years, Italy goes from a fragmentation of independent, kind of, states and kingdoms and into a unified, kind of, nation.

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  • Episode 531: Canons to the Right of Them!

    Episode 531: Canons to the Right of Them!
    2026/04/10
    The Crimean War really does sound the advance warning of the death knell for the Concert of Europe. If only anyone knew that...

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    39 分
  • Episode 530: Russia Awakens

    Episode 530: Russia Awakens
    2026/04/03
    Here I quickly cover Russian history from Peter the Great, through Catherine the Great, and then down to the beginning of the Crimean War.

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    39 分
  • Episode 529: We Hold These Truths

    Episode 529: We Hold These Truths
    2026/03/27
    After Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the Confederacy slowly fades. Despite Lee's efforts, Grant grinds his army down through murderous battles such as the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. Ultimately, the resouces of the Union are simply too much. But even as America ultimately wins its civil war, its greatest president falls to an assassin's bullet.

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    39 分