384 Episodes

  1. The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones

    Published: 9/5/2019
  2. The Rise of Printing and the Invention of News: An Interview with Professor Andrew Pettegree

    Published: 8/29/2019
  3. The Origins and Rise of Venice

    Published: 8/15/2019
  4. Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore

    Published: 8/8/2019
  5. The Experience of the Italian Wars

    Published: 8/1/2019
  6. Book Club: Summer Reading

    Published: 7/25/2019
  7. The Italian Wars, Part 2

    Published: 7/18/2019
  8. Walls throughout History: An Interview with Professor David Frye

    Published: 7/11/2019
  9. The Italian Wars, Part 1

    Published: 7/4/2019
  10. Minisode: Military Revolutions

    Published: 6/27/2019
  11. Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers

    Published: 6/20/2019
  12. Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy

    Published: 6/13/2019
  13. Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy

    Published: 6/6/2019
  14. Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence

    Published: 5/30/2019
  15. Minisode: Banking

    Published: 5/23/2019
  16. Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?

    Published: 5/16/2019
  17. The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank

    Published: 5/9/2019
  18. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Stanford's Professor Richard White

    Published: 5/2/2019
  19. Minisode: Messianic Rulers and Military Revolutions in Spain

    Published: 4/25/2019
  20. The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain

    Published: 4/18/2019

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