384 Episodes

  1. Who Were the First Americans?

    Published: 8/6/2020
  2. Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World

    Published: 7/30/2020
  3. Ancient DNA and the Human Story: Interview with Geneticist Eske Willerslev

    Published: 7/16/2020
  4. The Ghosts of Archaic Humans

    Published: 7/9/2020
  5. Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past

    Published: 7/2/2020
  6. Did I End My Early Modern Series in the Right Place? Interview with Keith Pluymers

    Published: 6/18/2020
  7. The Globalization of the Year 1000: Interview with Professor Valerie Hansen

    Published: 6/11/2020
  8. Alaric, the Goths, and the Sack of Rome: Interview with Professor Douglas Boin

    Published: 6/4/2020
  9. John Maynard Keynes and His Legacies: Interview with Author and Journalist Zach Carter

    Published: 5/28/2020
  10. Malta, Lepanto, and the End of an Era

    Published: 5/14/2020
  11. The Battle for the Mediterranean

    Published: 5/7/2020
  12. Charles V and the Failure of Empire

    Published: 4/30/2020
  13. Mike Duncan on Pandemics, Revolutions, and COVID-19

    Published: 4/23/2020
  14. The Rise of Charles V

    Published: 4/16/2020
  15. Pandemics in History

    Published: 4/9/2020
  16. Genetics and the Transformation of Prehistory: Interview with Spencer Wells and Razib Khan

    Published: 4/2/2020
  17. Classic Tides: Plague, Climate, and the End of the Roman World

    Published: 3/26/2020
  18. American Nations, American Union: Interview with Colin Woodard

    Published: 3/19/2020
  19. Classic Tides: The Black Death Revisited

    Published: 3/17/2020
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent and Ottoman Decline

    Published: 3/12/2020

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Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.Listen to Tides of History on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to bonus episodes available exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/tides-of-history/ now.