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The Baseball Hall of Fame
Episode 2030
In the 1930s, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression, and baseball was approaching its 100th anniversary.
One enterprising busine…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sigmund Freud
Episode 2029
If you know anything about the field of psychology, you’ve probably heard of Sigmund Freud.
Best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud funda…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Clovis First Hypothesis
Episode 2028
In 1932, archaeologist Edgar B. Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico.
He found a stone spear point embedded in the rib …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Mali Empire
Episode 2027
The Mali Empire was one of the largest and most influential states in African history, rising in West Africa during the thirteenth century and reachi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The May Fourth Movement
Episode 2026
Few dates in China are as significant as May Fourth, which marks two distinct revolutionary periods in modern Chinese history.
On May 4th, 1919, st…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Year 2025
Episode 2025
525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years as the pace of cha…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Encore)
Episode 2024
The Roman Empire was ruled by a single family for its first century. The family was actually a merger of two of the most distinguished clans in Roman…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Great London Fire of 1666
Episode 2023
From September 2 to September 5, 1666, one of the largest urban fires in history took place.
The Great Fire of London swept mercilessly through the …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Grateful Dead
Episode 2022
One of the most popular music groups over the last half-century is also one of the most unlikely.
They were seldom played on the radio, they almost…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Tokyo Trials
Episode 2021
Following the conclusion of World War II, decisions needed to be made about how to handle the defeated Axis Powers.
Due to the vast scale of atrociti…
2 months ago