Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Kept the United States and the Soviet Union From Direct War? - The Cold War Paradox: A Cold Center and a Burning Periphery | Sleepy Facts About History
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When President Harry Truman asked Congress fo…
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Why Is the Archive of the First World War Incomplete? - The Institutional Gaze of First World War Documentation | Sleepy Facts About History
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The First World War generated an unprecedente…
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Was the Soviet Union Just the Russian Empire With a Red Flag? - The Bolshevik Reconquest of the Imperial Space | Sleepy Facts About History
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When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, the…
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What Does the Qutb Minar Reveal About the Ghurid Conquest of India? - The Improvised Origins of the Delhi Sultanate | Sleepy Facts About History
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The Qutb Minar still rises above Delhi, its s…
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How Did the Monsoon Shape Ancient India? - Ecological Worlds of the Indian Subcontinent | Sleepy Facts About History
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The monsoon arrives each year across the Indi…
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When Does an Invention Become a Technology? - Hero of Alexandria and the Aeolipile | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the first century CE, a Greek engineer nam…
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How Did Indigenous Knowledge Shape European Voyages? - The Myth of European Discovery | Sleepy Facts About History
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The word "discovery" dominates our monuments,…
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How Did Geography and Monsoon Winds Shape Southeast Asia? - The Crossroads Model of Southeast Asia | Sleepy Facts About History
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The term "Southeast Asia" did not exist befor…
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How Did the Roman Dictator Become the Modern Tyrant? - The Origins and Evolution of Totalitarianism | Sleepy Facts About History
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When we call a ruler a dictator, most of us p…
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What Did the Secession Declarations Actually Say? - The Documents of Disunion | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the winter of 1860, elected delegates acro…
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