Episodios

  • Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets

    Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets
    Mar 6 2026
    In the 19th Century, Europeans carved up the globe with devastating consequences.

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    29 m
  • Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity

    Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
    Mar 3 2026
    In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land, historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America into their version of the kingdom of God, revealing the fruitful and dynamic entanglement between the history of America and the history of American Christianity.

    In the centuries after Christianity first arrived on American shores, colonizers and colonized from New England to Spanish California practiced many varieties of the faith. After the founding of the United States, the nation’s lack of a state religion forced new and evolving strains of Christianity to battle for potential adherents, as they still do to this day. As American Christianity has bent, fractured, and adapted to changing times, Christian belief has shaped everything from the promise of Manifest Destiny to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Cold War, the rise of the Southern Lost Cause narrative to the triumphs of the civil rights movement.

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    42 m
  • Episode 521: The Irish Potato Famine

    Episode 521: The Irish Potato Famine
    Feb 27 2026
    When the potato crop failed in 1845 in Ireland, no one at the time knew just how momentous it was. By the close of 1847, Ireland's population, through death and emigration, had fallen by nearly three million souls. It still has not recovered.

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    19 m
  • Episode 520: The Revolutions of 1848

    Episode 520: The Revolutions of 1848
    Feb 22 2026
    From Paris to Vienna, 1848 rocked Europe. While the revolutions themselves failed, they set the stage for dramatic changes to come.

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    23 m
  • Episode 519: Do You Hear The People Sing?

    Episode 519: Do You Hear The People Sing?
    Feb 20 2026
    Political, economic, and social currents sweep Europe, bringing massive change and setting the stage for the Revolutions of 1848.

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    34 m
  • Episode 518: The Age of Jackson

    Episode 518: The Age of Jackson
    Feb 13 2026
    The presidency of Andrew Jackson was instrumental in reshaping America politically, socially, and economically. Today we cover the Bank War, Nullification Crisis, and Indian Removal.

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  • Episode 517: Greek Independence and the Revolutions of 1830

    Episode 517: Greek Independence and the Revolutions of 1830
    Feb 8 2026
    The Congress of Vienna was supposed to freeze the map of Europe in time. It did not take long for it to thaw.

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    14 m
  • Episode 516: The Industrial Revolution

    Episode 516: The Industrial Revolution
    Feb 6 2026
    Before we move on to more political history, I want to broadly discuss some of the changes sweeping Great Britain and then ultimately the rest of Europe driven by the Industrial Revolution. Today we focus in on "Cottonopolis" - otherwise known as Manchester.

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    29 m