Western Civ
A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved int...
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Episode 473: The English Civil War (Part Ten)
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Episode 472: The English Civil War (Part Nine)
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Episode 471: The English Civil War (Part Eight)
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Episode 470: The English Civil War (Part Seven)
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Episode 469: The English Civil War (Part Six)
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Episode 468: The English Civil War (Part Five)
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Episode 467: The English Civil War (Part Four)
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Episode 466: The English Civil War (Part Three)
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Episode 465: The English Civil War (Part Two)
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Episode 464: The English Civil War (Part One)
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Episode 463: The War Begins
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Episode 462: Brave New World
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Episode 461: The Fall of the Earl
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Episode 460: The Bishops War
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Episode 459: Personal Rule
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Episode 458: Charles Alone
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Episode 457: The Death of the Duke
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Episode 456: Charles I
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Episode 455: Salem
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Episode 454: Bacon's Rebellion
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Native American History and Culture 4
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Native American History and Culture 3
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Native American Culture and History 2
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Native American Culture and History 1
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Episode 453: The Land of Dissent
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Air Battles Before D-Day: How Allied Airmen Crippled the Luftwaffe and German Ar...
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And Housing for All
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Episode 452: A City Upon A Hill
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Episode 451: The Voyage of the Mayflower
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Jamestown Part Five
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Jamestown Part Three
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Jamestown Episode Reminder
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The Year That Made America
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The Pathfinder and the President
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Jamestown Part One
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Episode 450: Dutch Colonization
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Episode 449: New France and Roanoke
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Episode 448: Portuguese colonization
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Episode 447: The New World Exploited
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Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Toda...
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Episode 446: Louis XIII
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Episode 445: War and Peace
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Episode 444: The End of the Baltic War
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Episode 443: A New Alliance
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Episode 342: The War in Germany
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Episode 341: The War After Adolphus
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Episode 340: The Lion of the North
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Episode 339: Denmark Intervenes
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War
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Episode 338: Cardinal Richelieu
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