488 Episodes

  1. Episode 284: A New King

    Published: 1/26/2024
  2. Episode 283: Henry and Catherine

    Published: 1/19/2024
  3. Episode 282: The New Josiah

    Published: 1/12/2024
  4. Bonus: Warfare in the Crusades

    Published: 1/5/2024
  5. Episode 281: The Heir

    Published: 1/5/2024
  6. Episode 280: Galileo's Trial

    Published: 12/29/2023
  7. Episode 279: The Inquisition Structure and Organization

    Published: 12/22/2023
  8. In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

    Published: 12/18/2023
  9. Episode 278: The Inquisition and the Reformation

    Published: 12/15/2023
  10. The Eunuch

    Published: 12/11/2023
  11. Episode 277: God's Fire

    Published: 12/8/2023
  12. The Book at War

    Published: 12/5/2023
  13. Episode 276: The Coming of the Inquisition

    Published: 12/1/2023
  14. Episode 275: The Jews of Spain

    Published: 11/24/2023
  15. Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X

    Published: 11/21/2023
  16. The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation

    Published: 11/19/2023
  17. Episode 274: Galileo Part Six

    Published: 11/17/2023
  18. Episode 273: Galileo Part Five

    Published: 11/10/2023
  19. Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry

    Published: 11/6/2023
  20. Episode 272: Galileo Part Four

    Published: 11/3/2023

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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.