All Episodes
Displaying 61 - 80 of 123 in total
62 - When in the Course of Human Events
Ok, last episode, I talked about how the Declaration of Independence came to be drafted, and I decided that it was really such an important document that I needed to t...
61 - The Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence
Well, it’s 1776. Things are about to happen. We just had the Boston tea party, Patrick Henry’s speech, and the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Bu...
60 - Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
At the end of the last episode, we left colonial Boston chafing under British military rule. Now Boston was a big port, a very important commercial center of New Engl...
59 - The Boston Tea Party
Things in Boston are about to get really dicey. In this episode, we’re going to look at several events that happened in Boston starting in about 1770 that all are par...
58 - The French and Indian War
In this episode, we’re going to look at a world-changing war, that was started by an small Indian and colonial raid on a French patrol. That Indian raid included a fe...
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...