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Back to SearchAn Empire of Reason – Roman Law
Season 11 Episode 3
The Romans had a horror of one word — rex, king — and after they threw out their last one, they spent five centuries building a government designed s…
3 years, 4 months ago
An Empire of Reason – Greek Logic
Season 11 Episode 2
In 585 BC, the sun went dark over a battlefield — and one Greek had said it would, not by reading the will of the gods, but by working out that the h…
3 years, 4 months ago
An Empire of Reason – Inheritance of the West
Season 11 Episode 1
We hold these truths to be self-evident — but they were not self-evident. For almost the whole of human history, on nearly every patch of the globe, …
3 years, 4 months ago
The French and Indian War - Pontiac’s War
Season 10 Episode 10
In the spring of 1763, the British colonies were lighting bonfires for the greatest victory in their history — and within weeks the frontier they had…
3 years, 4 months ago
The French and Indian War - A Few Acres of Snow
Season 10 Episode 9
In the spring of 1760, two armies sat outside Quebec and stared at the river, because whoever’s ships came first would win a continent. This is the s…
3 years, 4 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Cherokee War
Season 10 Episode 8
While the British took Quebec in the north, the southern colonies fought a war almost nobody up north was watching — a brutal frontier war against th…
3 years, 4 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Plains of Abraham
Season 10 Episode 7
In 1759, the year the British Empire could not stop winning, the largest prize of all sat on a cliff in the middle of North America: Quebec, the hear…
3 years, 4 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Forks
Season 10 Episode 6
The French and Indian War began at the forks of the Ohio in 1754, and in 1758 it came home to where it started. This is the story of how the British …
3 years, 5 months ago
The French and Indian War - Pitt’s War
Season 10 Episode 5
By 1758 the British had been losing the war in America for three years. Then William Pitt took hold of it in London — and instead of bullying the col…
3 years, 8 months ago
The French and Indian War – Montcalm Ascendant
Season 10 Episode 4
By 1757 the most powerful empire on earth was losing — beaten up one side of the continent and down the other by a smaller, poorer enemy with a bette…
3 years, 8 months ago