488 Episodes

  1. Richard Nixon: California's Native Son

    Published: 10/31/2023

  2. Episode 271: Galileo Part Three

    Published: 10/27/2023

  3. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

    Published: 10/24/2023

  4. Bonus Author Interview: Techlash

    Published: 10/23/2023

  5. Bonus: Western Civ 2.0

    Published: 10/22/2023

  6. Episode 270: Galileo Part Two

    Published: 10/20/2023

  7. Episode 269: Galileo Part One

    Published: 10/13/2023

  8. Around the World in 80 Games

    Published: 10/12/2023

  9. Episode 268: Tycho Brahe

    Published: 10/6/2023

  10. Episode 267: Copernicus (Part Four)

    Published: 9/29/2023

  11. Pax: An Interview with Historian Tom Holland

    Published: 9/26/2023

  12. Episode 266: Copernicus (Part Three)

    Published: 9/22/2023

  13. Episode 265: Copernicus (Part Two)

    Published: 9/15/2023

  14. Episode 264: Copernicus (Part One)

    Published: 9/8/2023

  15. Bonus Author Interview: Bismarck's War

    Published: 9/5/2023

  16. Episode 263: Facts and Experiments

    Published: 9/1/2023

  17. 1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch

    Published: 8/29/2023

  18. Episode 262: The Science of Math

    Published: 8/25/2023

  19. Episode 261: Defining Earth

    Published: 8/18/2023

  20. Episode 260: The Scientific Revolution Begins

    Published: 8/11/2023

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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.