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  • Episode 543: The Roots of Revolution

    Episode 543: The Roots of Revolution
    2026/07/03
    The Russian Revolution did not come out of nowhere. It was not merely the result of World War One. Its legacy is long. Today, we go all the way back to the abolition of serfdom and hit the main events that lead to that critical month: March 1917.

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    35 分
  • Episode 542: Meat Grinder

    Episode 542: Meat Grinder
    2026/06/26
    1916 is one of the most depressing years in human history and today we're covering it. This is the year that makes World War One the horror it is. This is the year of Verdun, of the Somme, and of countless deaths on other fronts.

    It is also the year everyone starts wondering: will it all be worth it?

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    48 分
  • Episode 541: Stalemate

    Episode 541: Stalemate
    2026/06/19
    The western front grinds to a slow halt, despite the best efforts of the generals on both sides who appear to be overly committed to killing their own men in pointless offensives... Across the pond, America tries to stay neutral while watching the unfolding Mexican Revolution to the south.

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    50 分
  • Episode 540: Tannenberg

    Episode 540: Tannenberg
    2026/06/12
    The Eastern Front in World War One is often overlooked. But, even beyond the Battle of Tannenberg, the Eastern Front is critical not only in understanding the outcome of the war but the 20th century as a whole.

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    49 分
  • Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations

    Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations
    2026/06/10
    In this bonus, author interview, I sit down with Marc Baer and discuss his latest book: Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations.

    Today, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and Muslim peoples assumes a long history of violent hostility. In Children of Abraham, historian Marc David Baer lays this myth to rest, showing how Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East and Europe, more often in cooperation than in conflict, for more than a millennium. When Islam emerged in the seventh century, Muslims and Jews were bound by shared religious tenets and common cultural practices, and for centuries afterward, they were often allies.

    Baer introduces readers to Muslim warriors fighting for a medieval Turkish Jewish kingdom on the Caspian Sea, Jewish viziers leading the Muslim sultan’s troops in Spain, and Jewish literary lights and political party leaders in modern Egypt and Iraq. But Baer resists the alluring fable that Jews and Muslims ever lived in interfaith utopia, and he shows how European colonization and nationalism fed the emergence of modern antisemitism and Islamophobia and helped to drive these two peoples further and further apart.

    Traversing the full spectrum of Jewish–Muslim relations, this is an urgent, essential history for understanding today’s unending conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.

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    45 分
  • Western Civ 2.0: Trajan (Part Four)

    Western Civ 2.0: Trajan (Part Four)
    2026/06/10
    This is a bonus look at what I do on our other feed: Western Civ 2.0. The feed covers similar topics compared to this one but in much greater detail. The number one way you can continue to support the show and enjoy bonus content is to sign up for this feed. For only $2 per month, you get ad-free versions of this feed plus all my bonus content.

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  • Episode 539: The Miracle at the Marne

    Episode 539: The Miracle at the Marne
    2026/06/05
    Germany nearly won World War One in the first six weeks, just as it planned. Nearly.

    But it turns out that timetables are a heck of a lot easier to work out on paper than in real life....

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    28 分
  • Episode 538: The Spark

    Episode 538: The Spark
    2026/05/29
    Somehow, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, throws the entire world into war. Of course, it was not an accident. The alliance systems, the militarism, the nationalism, all of it conspires to doom Europe to its own destruction. But it all starts with two bullets fired by a nineteen-year-old assassin.

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    37 分