488 Episodes

  1. Episode 148: The Wars of the Roses (Part Two)

    Published: 3/12/2021

  2. Episode 147: The Wars of the Roses (Part One)

    Published: 3/5/2021

  3. Episode 146: Victorious

    Published: 2/26/2021

  4. Episode 145: To The East

    Published: 2/19/2021

  5. The History of Valentine's Day

    Published: 2/14/2021

  6. Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius of Imagination

    Published: 2/10/2021

  7. Episode 144: The Renaissance in Eastern Europe

    Published: 2/5/2021

  8. The Development of Renaissance Art

    Published: 1/31/2021

  9. Episode 143: The Italian Renaissance Part Three

    Published: 1/29/2021

  10. Episode 142: The Italian Renaissance Part Two

    Published: 1/15/2021

  11. A History of Classical Greek Medicine

    Published: 1/10/2021

  12. Episode 141: The Italian Renaissance Part One

    Published: 1/1/2021

  13. Supplemental: Europe at 1450

    Published: 12/25/2020

  14. Bonus: The History of Christmas

    Published: 12/24/2020

  15. Interview with Historian Robin Lane Fox

    Published: 12/21/2020

  16. Bonus: Alexander Redux

    Published: 12/5/2020

  17. Episode 140: Triumph of the Crescent Moon

    Published: 12/4/2020

  18. Episode 139: On Knife's Edge

    Published: 11/26/2020

  19. Preview: The Search for Atlantis

    Published: 11/22/2020

  20. Episode 138: To The Breach

    Published: 11/13/2020

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A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.