All Episodes
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57 - The American Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
Well, last episode we surveyed the 13 original colonies, as they were at the start of the 1700’s. And as I mentioned, a lot happens in the 1700’s. And as I mentioned...
56 - The 13 Original Colonies
Well, buckle your podcast seatbelts, because we are getting to a point where a lot of stuff happens in a really short time. Welcome to the 1700’s! If you ask the que...
55 - The English Civil War, the Restoration, and a Bit about the 30 Years' War
When we last left the British Monarchy, back in episode 53, King James had come to the throne, and finish writing his famous King James Bible. No, no, of course he di...
54 - The Enlightenment
Ok, I need to step back for an episode, and step away from the narrative of the English colonies in North America, which I really want to talk about, and instead spend...
53 - The Puritans, The Mayflower, and Plymouth Colony
After a little while in Holland, the Puritans from Yorkshire felt like they were being over-influenced by the permissive culture of Holland, and that they were also lo...
52 - The First English Colonies in the New World
This episode is kind of a cross-over. We’re looking at the early English explorations of the New world, and their first colonies, which started during Elizabeth’s rei...
Episode 51 - Middle Ages Retrospective
Wow, our 51st episode. We’ll be talking about the modern world any day now. But before we get to the New World, the Enlightenment, The Declaration of Independence an...
Episode 50 - William Shakespeare
Well guys, we’re right at the end of the Middle Ages. [much rejoicing clip ] It’s been a longer process than I thought it would be back when I decided to call this po...
Episode 49 - Elizabethan England
Last episode, I spent a bit of time on Henry VIII, who was a very important monarch - but I didn’t give him a full episode, he was just shoehorned into the episode on ...
Episode 48 - The Counter-Reformation
Last episode, we looked at the Reformation spreading out of Germany, and into other parts of Northern Europe, particularly looking at how England was affected. One of...
Episode 47 - The Reformation Spreads across Northern Europe
Well, did you enjoy our brief excursion into hell last episode? I did. Since the world didn’t end, and we didn’t get to experience the afterlife first-hand, I guess ...
Episode 46 - The History of Hell
Fair warning here up front, this episode is a bit long. The history of hell is, appropriately, long and convoluted, so the episode has run on a bit despite my best ed...
Episode 45 - Martin Luther and the Reformation
There are occasionally, in the history of the world, those singular moments, an instant in time, when everything changes. One single action, one quick moment, and the...
Episode 44 - The Inquisition
It wasn’t in my long-term plan for the podcast to do an episode on the Inquisition, but I thought of it while I was working on the episode about Galileo, and thought...
Episode 43 - The Northern Renaissance and the First Reformers
A few episodes ago, we talked about the Renaissance, and we were focused on what happened in Italy, where the Renaissance started. The Renaissance spread out of Ital...
Episode 42 - The Portuguese and Spanish Colonies in the New World
OK, in the last episode, we had Columbus finding the New World, but thinking it was India. Meanwhile, Vasco de Gama found the actual India for Portugal. Then John Ca...
Episode 41- The Golden Age of Exploration
One of the things you might have noticed in the past few episodes, besides the fact that we were jumping around in time a bit, was that we actually got a bit into the ...
Episode 40 - The Hundred Years' War
OK, so in my original plan for the flow of the podcast, I wasn’t going to talk about the Hundred Years War, but the more I looked at what was going on in European Hist...
Episode 39 - Gutenberg and the Printing Press
Well, I was going to try to squeeze Gutenberg into the last episode, since he actually lived before the High Renaissance, and his invention kind of fit into the ethos ...
Episode 38 - The High Renaissance
Ok, here we are. The High Renaissance. Lots of great stuff happened during the Renaissance, but there was one particular period, about 35 years, where some of the gr...
Episode 37 - The Renaissance Begins
It’s hard to overstate how important the Renaissance was. It’s kind of one of the highest high points of all of human history. I mean, there are Renaissance faires...
Episode 36 - The Beginning of the Age of Exploration
Polo! Yes, in this episode, I’m starting with Marco Polo. There’s not a lot of people who I have looked at over the course of this podcast where I say, ‘Man, I w...
Episode 35 - The Far East and the Mongols
We’ve already talked about a lot of galloping hordes in this podcast, including the Goths, the Huns, and the Vikings. But there is one tribe that outstrips them all...
Episode 34 - Medieval Literature
Ok, I know, there’s nothing more eye-rollingly boring than medieval literature, right? Wrong! It’s super interesting, in the stories that are told, and in the develo...
Episode 31 - Feudalism
You probably have heard of Prince William and his wife Kate. You might have heard of their official titles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Or William’s dad, Prin...
Episode 30 - The Vikings!
Last episode, we talked about the Charles the Hammer and his son Charlemagne, and the Carolingian renaissance in France and western Europe. After Charley and Charley...
Episode 29 - Charles Martel and Charlemagne
Last episode, we talked about the rise of Islam, and how it swept over the Middle East, Central Asia, and across North Africa. And I mentioned that the Islamic Caliph...
Episode 28 - The Rise of Islam
Ok, so Europe was reeling from the volcanic winter of 536, and then the subsequent Plague of Justinian in 541, and it was beginning to descend into the Dark Ages. B...