Episodios

  • Episode 485: The American Revolution Part Three

    Episode 485: The American Revolution Part Three
    Oct 3 2025
    Washington's victory at Yorktown effectively ends the war and costs Great Britain her colonies.

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    15 m
  • Episode 484: The American Revolution Part Two

    Episode 484: The American Revolution Part Two
    Oct 1 2025
    The Battle of Saratoga turns the tide while Washington builds resilience in Valley Forge.

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    21 m
  • Episode 483: The American Revolution Part One

    Episode 483: The American Revolution Part One
    Sep 26 2025
    The American colonists vote for independence and Washington crosses the Delaware.

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    30 m
  • 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe

    1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
    Sep 23 2025
    By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them civilians. Cities from Warsaw to Tokyo lay in ruins, and fully half of the world’s two billion people had been mobilized, enslaved, or displaced.

    In 1942, historian Peter Fritzsche offers a gripping, ground-level portrait of the decisive year when World War II escalated to global catastrophe. With the United States joining the fight following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, all the world’s great powers were at war. The debris of ships sunk by Nazi submarines littered US beaches, Germans marauded in North Africa, and the Japanese swept through the Pacific. Military battles from Singapore to Stalingrad riveted the world. But so, too, did dramas on the war’s home fronts: battles against colonial overlords, assaults on internal “enemies,” massive labor migrations, endless columns of refugees.

    With an eye for detail and an eye on the big story, Fritzsche takes us from shipyards on San Francisco Bay to townships in Johannesburg to street corners in Calcutta to reveal the moral and existential drama of a people’s war filled with promise and terror.

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    48 m
  • Episode 482: The Boiling Pot

    Episode 482: The Boiling Pot
    Sep 19 2025
    In the span of one decade, Great Britain went from winning a war against France to fighting a war with its own colonies. This is that story.

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    25 m
  • Episode 481: The Partition of Poland

    Episode 481: The Partition of Poland
    Sep 17 2025
    Over the course of roughly three decades, Lithuania-Poland ceased to exist.

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    12 m
  • Episode 480: The Seven Years War

    Episode 480: The Seven Years War
    Sep 12 2025
    AKA the French and Indian War for those of you who ever took US History...

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    33 m
  • Episode 479: Storm on the Horizon

    Episode 479: Storm on the Horizon
    Sep 5 2025
    A number of factors led into the Seven Years War. Here I break them down.

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    18 m