HISTORY

Africa

• Episode 19: The Xhosa Cattle Killing

• Episode 26: The Amistad Rebellion-Origins and Middle Passage

• Episode 27: The Amistad Rebellion-Going Home

• Episode 53: African Sleeping Sickness

American Civil War

• Episode 7: The Last War Between Gentleman

• Episode 8: Life of a Soldier

• Episode 65: The American Civil War with S.C. Gwynne

American Revolution

• Episode 5: Benedict Arnold-Part I: The Hero

• Episode 6: Benedict Arnold-Part II: The Villain

Bosnia

• Episode 62: The Bosnian War Part I-The Perils of Nationalism

• Episode 63: The Bosnian War Part II-The Siege of Sarajevo

• Episode 64: The Bosnian War Part III-Hatred

• Episode 66: The Bosnian War Part IV-War Journalism and the Tolerance Paradox

• Episode 67: The Bosnian War Part V-Forgiveness

• Episode 68: The Bosnian War Part VI-Safe Area Gorazde

• Episode 69: The Bosnian War Part VII-The Women of Srebrenica

Cambodia

• Episode 90: The Cambodian Genocide Part I-The Dark Years Begin

• Episode 91: The Cambodian Genocide Part II-Endure and Survive

• Episode 92: The Cambodian Genocide Part III-Reverberations of a Nightmare

• Episode 93: The Cambodian Genocide Part IV-First They Killed My Father

• Episode 94: The Cambodian Genocide Part V-Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields

China

• Episode 14: The Great Leap Forward

• Episode 15: The Great Leap Forward-Digging China's Grave

• Episode 16: The Great Leap Forward-Corpses for Dinner

• Episode 43: Red Scarf Girl Part I-Destroying the Four Olds

• Episode 44: Red Scarf Girl Part II-Party vs. Family

• Episode 45: The Cultural Revolution Part I-No Half Measures

• Episode 46: The Cultural Revolution Part II-Nine Fingers to One

• Episode 47: The Cultural Revolution Part III-A Culture of Paranoia

• Episode 48: The Cultural Revolution Part IV-Red August

• Episode 49: The Cultural Revolution Part V-The Hidden Victims

• Episode 50: The Cultural Revolution Part VI-The Army Intervenes

• Episode 51: The Cultural Revolution Part VII-Mobilizing for War

• Episode 52: The Cultural Revolution Part VIII-The Silent Revolution

• Episode 81: China Tripping Part I-Ordinary History

• Episode 82: China Tripping Part II-Scars of the Past

• Episode 83: China Tripping Part III-Informal History

• Episode 110: The Taiping Civil War Part I-The Pressure Cooker

• Episode 111: The Taiping Civil War Part II-The Mixing Bowl

• Episode 112: The Taiping Civil War Part III-The Rebel

• Episode 113: The Taiping Civil War Part IV-The Outsiders

• Episode 114: The Taiping Civil War Part V-The Cost

• Episode 115: What Remains Part I-Reward and Punishment

• Episode 116: What Remains Part II-Wartime Identity

• Episode 117: What Remains Part III-Bodies and Burials

• Episode 118: What Remains Part IV-Generational Grief

• Episode 145: Daughters of Shandong with Eve Chung

Climate Change

• Episode 84: The Fate of Rome Part I-Climate Change and the Roman Empire

• Episode 85: The Fate of Rome Part II-The Antonine Plague

• Episode 86: The Fate of Rome Part III-The Crisis of the Third Century

• Episode 88: The Fate of Rome Part IV-The Justinianic Plague and the End of Rome

Colonialism and Imperialism

• Episode 19: The Xhosa Cattle Killing

• Episode 26: The Amistad Rebellion-Origins and Middle Passage

• Episode 27: The Amistad Rebellion-Going Home

• Episode 53: African Sleeping Sickness

Communism

• Episode 14: The Great Leap Forward

• Episode 15: The Great Leap Forward-Digging China's Grave

• Episode 16: The Great Leap Forward-Corpses for Dinner

• Episode 41: Where the World Ended-Secrets, Politics, and Religion in East Germany

• Episode 42: Where the World Ended-History and Identity in East Germany

• Episode 43: Red Scarf Girl Part I-Destroying the Four Olds

• Episode 44: Red Scarf Girl Part II-Party vs. Family

• Episode 45: The Cultural Revolution Part I-No Half Measures

• Episode 46: The Cultural Revolution Part II-Nine Fingers to One

• Episode 47: The Cultural Revolution Part III-A Culture of Paranoia

• Episode 48: The Cultural Revolution Part IV-Red August

• Episode 49: The Cultural Revolution Part V-The Hidden Victims

• Episode 50: The Cultural Revolution Part VI-The Army Intervenes

• Episode 51: The Cultural Revolution Part VII-Mobilizing for War

• Episode 52: The Cultural Revolution Part VIII-The Silent Revolution

• Episode 90: The Cambodian Genocide Part I-The Dark Years Begin

Disease, Medicine, and Health

• Episode 8: Life of a Soldier

• Episode 19: The Xhosa Cattle Killing

• Episode 53: African Sleeping Sickness

• Episode 84: The Fate of Rome Part I-Climate Change and the Roman Empire

• Episode 85: The Fate of Rome Part II-The Antonine Plague

• Episode 86: The Fate of Rome Part III-The Crisis of the Third Century

Early Man

• Episode 73: Against the Grain Part I-The Civilizational Narrative

• Episode 74: Against the Grain Part II-The Domus Complex

• Episode 75: Against the Grain Part III-Mortality and Early States

• Episode 77: Against the Grain Part IV-Collapses and Dark Ages

• Episode 146: Prehistory and Posthistory

Gender History

• Episode 108: Dear John with Susan Carruthers

Historiography

• Episode 106: History at a Crossroads

• Episode 126: Reconstructing Emotion in History

• Episode 135: Fire and Blood

The Holocaust

• Episode 3: Night

• Episode 13: Ordinary Men

• Episode 38: The Bystander Effect During the Holocaust

India

• Episode 139: Vagabond Princess with Ruby Lal

Japan

• Episode 120: The Memory Police

• Episode 121: Ikiru

Mexico

• Episode 127: The Mexican Dirty War Part I-The Politics of Memory

• Episode 128: The Mexican Dirty War Part II-Spectres of Revolution

• Episode 129: The Mexican Dirty War Part III-Revolution of the Mundane

• Episode 130: The Mexican Dirty War Part IV-Violence and Change

• Episode 131: The Mexican Dirty War Part V-Massacres and Memories

• Episode 132: The Mexican Dirty War Part VI-Spaces of Memory

• Episode 133: Roma Part I

• Episode 134: Roma Part II

Nazi Germany

• Episode 20: Rise of the Nazis-The Perfect Storm

• Episode 21: Rise of the Nazi's-Building the Movement

• Episode 22: Rise of the Nazi's-The Third Reich Begins

• Episode 23: Rise of the Nazi's-From Democracy to Dictatorship

• Episode 70: Did Hitler Fix the German Economy?

• Episode 87: They Thought They Were Free

• Episode 104: Education in Nazi Germany

The Mongols

• Episode 4: Historical Myth-Never Invade Russia in the Winter

Rome

• Episode 9: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

• Episode 10: The Social War-The Beginning of the End

• Episode 11: The Social War-When Conversation Fails

• Episode 12: The Social War-The Tyranny of Deterioration

• Episode 55: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part I-Features of the System

• Episode 56: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part II-The Long Defeat

• Episode 57: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part III-The Gracchan Revolution

• Episode 58: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part IV-You Win or You Die

• Episode 59: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part V-The New Normal

• Episode 60: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part VI-Death By A Thousand Cuts

• Episode 84: The Fate of Rome Part I-Climate Change and the Roman Empire

• Episode 85: The Fate of Rome Part II-The Antonine Plague

• Episode 86: The Fate of Rome Part III-The Crisis of the Third Century

• Episode 88: The Fate of Rome Part IV-The Justinianic Plague and the End of Rome

Slavery

• Episode 26: The Amistad Rebellion-Origins and Middle Passage

• Episode 27: The Amistad Rebellion-Going Home

• Episode 79: Myths About Slavery

• Episode 96: Running From Bondage with Karen Cook Bell

Vietnam

• Episode 80: The Refugee Experience and Finding Equilibrium with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao

• Episode 109: On Full Automatic with William V. Taylor

World War I

• Episode 1: The Russian Women's Battalion of Death

• Episode 2: The Somme

• Episode 28: Christmas in the Trenches

• Episode 29: All Quiet on the Western Front

• Episode 30: The Causes of World War I-Spreading the Blame

• Episode 31: World War I-1914-Destroyed But Not Defeated

• Episode 32: World War I-1915-Horror Show

• Episode 33: World War I-1916-Death Trap

• Episode 34: Fake News and Propaganda During World War I

• Episode 35: World War I-1917-Exhaustion and Demoralization

• Episode 36: World War I-1918-Desperate Times

• Episode 37: World War I-1919-Final Tally and Treaty of Versailles

• Episode 95: Sprinting Through No Man’s Land with Adin Dobkin

• Episode 124: W.E.B. Dubois and the Wounded World with Chad Williams

World War II

• Episode 20: Rise of the Nazis-The Perfect Storm

• Episode 21: Rise of the Nazi's-Building the Movement

• Episode 22: Rise of the Nazi's-The Third Reich Begins

• Episode 23: Rise of the Nazi's-From Democracy to Dictatorship

• Episode 3: Night

• Episode 13: Ordinary Men

• Episode 70: Did Hitler Fix the German Economy?

• Episode 143: The Unseen Leader with Martin Gutmann

PSYCHOLOGY

The Bystander Effect

• Episode 38: The Bystander Effect During the Holocaust

Cormac McCarthy

• Episode 140: The Road Part I

• Episode 141: The Road Part II

• Episode 142: The Road Part III

David Foster Wallace

• Episode 72: This is Water

Dehumanization

• Episode 29: All Quiet on the Western Front

Humanistic Psychology

• Episode 98: Humanistic Psychology Part I

• Episode 99: Humanistic Psychology Part II

• Episode 100: Cast Away

• Episode 121: Ikiru

Leadership

• Episode 143: The Unseen Leader with Martin Gutmann

Memory

• Episode 119: The Buried Giant

• Episode 120: The Memory Police

• Episode 144: Aftersun

Propaganda

• Episode 34: Fake News and Propaganda During World War I

Social Psychology

• Episode 13: Ordinary Men

• Episode 17: The Stanford Prison Experiment

PHILOSOPHY

Counterfactual History

• Episode 61: Chance, Randomness, and Luck in History

Cynicism

• Episode 54: Diogenes the Cynic

Determinism vs. Randomness

• Episode 61: Chance, Randomness, and Luck in History

• Episode 122: Story of Your Life

Ethics and Moral Philosophy

• Episode 105: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

• Episode 107: Freedom and Tyranny

• Episode 125: Burning

Ethics of History Podcasting

• Episode 101: Is the Human Element of History Exploitative?

Fantasy and Fiction

• Episode 76: Learning to Be You

• Episode 78: The Star

• Episode 89: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate

• Episode 97: Mono No Aware

• Episode 102: On Fantasy

• Episode 103: The Man Who Ended History

• Episode 105: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

• Episode 119: The Buried Giant

• Episode 120: The Memory Police

• Episode 122: Story of Your Life

• Episode 123: Piranesi

• Episode 125: Burning

• Episode 135: Fire and Blood

• Episode 140: The Road Part I

• Episode 141: The Road Part II

• Episode 142: The Road Part III

• Episode 145: Daughters of Shandong with Eve Chung

Free Will

• Episode 89: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate

• Episode 122: Story of Your Life

Identity

• Episode 76: Learning to Be You

• Episode 80: The Refugee Experience and Finding Equilibrium with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao

• Episode 103: The Man Who Ended History

• Episode 136: The Metamorphosis Part I

• Episode 137: The Metamorphosis Part II

• Episode 138: The Metamorphosis Part III

Mono No Aware

• Episode 97: Mono No Aware

Moral Relativism

• Episode 18: Judging History and Moral Relativism

Plato

• Episode 71: The Allegory of the Cave and Simulation Theory

Political Theory

• Episode 25: The Clash of Civilizations

Simulation Theory

• Episode 71: The Allegory of the Cave and Simulation Theory

Stoicism

• Episode 9: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Taoism

• Episode 39: The Tao of Pooh-The State of Education and Context

• Episode 40: The Tao of Pooh-Taoism in the Modern World

The Problem of Evil

• Episode 78: The Star

The Tolerance Paradox

• Episode 66: The Bosnian War Part IV: War Journalism and the Tolerance Paradox

The Trolley Problem

• Episode 24: Trolley Problems and History