• Wondery Presents Against the Odds: Alaska Bear Attack (Fri, Mar 24, 2023)
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• How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data (Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
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• Who Were the Phoenicians? Interview with Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz (Thu, Mar 16, 2023)
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• The Roots of Archaic Greece (Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
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• The Phoenician Mediterranean (Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
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• The Emergence of Phoenicia (Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
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• How to Write Historical Fiction | Interview with historian and author Dan Jones on his new novel Essex Dogs (Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
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• Greece's Dark Age (Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
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• Wondery Presents: Stolen Hearts (Wed, Feb 08, 2023)
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• The Global Mediterranean of the Iron Age: Interview with Professor Tamar Hodos (Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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• Greece after the Bronze Age Collapse: Interview with Professor Alex Knodell (Thu, Jan 26, 2023)
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• The Interconnected Mediterranean of the Iron Age (Thu, Jan 19, 2023)
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• The Fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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• Introducing: History Daily (Wed, Jan 11, 2023)
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• The Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire: Interview with Professor Bleda During (Thu, Jan 05, 2023)
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• The Rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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• Weavers, Scribes, and Kings in the Ancient Near East: Interview with Professor Amanda Podany (Thu, Dec 15, 2022)
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• From a World of Iron to Classical Empires (Thu, Dec 08, 2022)
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• Retrospective: Prehistory Season (Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
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• Revisiting the Ancient Americas with Professor Shane Miller (Thu, Nov 24, 2022)
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• What is "Collapse?" Interview with Professor Guy Middleton (Thu, Nov 17, 2022)
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• The Battle of the Tollense Valley (Thu, Nov 10, 2022)
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• Tutankhamun's Trumpet and the Long, Winding Past of Ancient Egypt: Interview with Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson (Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
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• After the Bronze Age Collapse (Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
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• Season 4 Mailbag: Prehistory and Early History (Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
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• Empires, Networks, and the Hittites: Interview with Professor Claudia Glatz (Thu, Oct 13, 2022)
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• Who Were the Sea Peoples? (Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
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• The Fall of Mycenaean Greece and the Trojan War (Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
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• How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray (Thu, Sep 22, 2022)
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• What was the Bronze Age Collapse? (Thu, Sep 15, 2022)
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• Clashing Empires in the Late Bronze Age (Thu, Sep 08, 2022)
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• Living as a Regular Person in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Professor Anne Austin (Thu, Sep 01, 2022)
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• The Interconnected World of the Late Bronze Age (Thu, Aug 25, 2022)
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• Daily Life and Common People in Egypt's New Kingdom (Thu, Aug 18, 2022)
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• Why Did the Bronze Age World Collapse? Interview with Professor Eric Cline (Thu, Aug 11, 2022)
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• Kings, Images, and Violence in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Professor Laurel Bestock (Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
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• Egypt's New Kingdom: Empire, Religious Change, and the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Thu, Jul 28, 2022)
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• The Rise of Egypt's New Kingdom (Thu, Jul 21, 2022)
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• Lost Landscapes of the Ancient Pacific: Interview with Professor Mike Carson (Thu, Jul 14, 2022)
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• Encore: Chivalry and Knighthood in Medieval Europe (Thu, Jul 07, 2022)
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• The Coolest Archaeological Site in the World: Interview with Professor Chantal Conneller on Star Carr and the Mesolithic (Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
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• The Polynesians and the Pacific: Interview with Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch (Thu, Jun 23, 2022)
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• The Austronesian Expansion, Part 2 (Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
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• The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1 (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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• How Did Civilizations in the Andes Deal with Environmental Upheaval? Interview with Professor Jason Nesbitt (Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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• Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell (Thu, May 26, 2022)
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• The Beginnings of Civilization in the Andes: The Mounds of Norte Chico (Thu, May 19, 2022)
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• The Rise of the Olmecs (Thu, May 12, 2022)
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• Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen (Thu, May 05, 2022)
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• The Steppes of Central Asia in the Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Michael Frachetti (Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
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• Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
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• The World of the Indo-Iranians (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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• What was the Indus Valley Civilization? Interview with Dr. Adam Green (Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
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• Languages of the World in 1200 BC (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
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• Kathryn de Luna on Africa, Bantu, and Historical Linguistics (Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
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• What is the State? (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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• Mary Prendergast on Ancient Africa (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
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• The Green Sahara and African Neolithics (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
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• Africa and the Many Cradles of Humanity (Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
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• Who Were the Human Sacrifices in Shang China? Interview with Dr. Christina Cheung (Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
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• The Genetic Origins of Indigenous Americans: Interview with Professor Jennifer Raff (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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• The Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bones, and the Roots of Chinese History (Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
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• The Complicated World of the Bronze Age Near East: Interview with Aaron Burke (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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• The Dawn of History in China (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
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• Encore: How Latin Became the Romance Languages (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
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• The Rise and Fall of China’s First States (Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
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• Li Liu on the Rise of States in China (Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
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• Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce (Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
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• The Rise of the Late Bronze Age Empires: The Hittites, Mittani, and Assyrians (Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
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• Hammurabi’s World - The Near East in the Age of Fragmentation (Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
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• Mike Parker Pearson on Stonehenge and British Prehistory (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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• Stonehenge (Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
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• Bronze Age Europe (Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
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• Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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• The Hyksos - Foreign Kings in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Dr. Anna-Latifa Mourad (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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• Ancient Nubia (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
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• Interview with Shane Miller and Jessi Halligan on the White Sands footprints (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
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• Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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• Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush: Interview with Dr. Geoff Emberling (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
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• Old Kingdom Egypt (Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
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• When Did Things Happen in the Ancient World? Interview with Professor Sturt Manning (Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
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• Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete (Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
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• How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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• The Early Aegean Bronze Age and Minoan Crete (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
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• Mike Duncan on the Marquis de Lafayette and His New Book, Hero of Two Worlds (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
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• Sargon of Akkad and the World's First Empire (Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
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• Mike Duncan and Patrick in Conversation at Powell's Books: "The Verge," Ancient Rome, and Doing History (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
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• Colonies and the Quest for Resources in Early Modern Europe: Interview with Dr. Keith Pluymers (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
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• Cities, States, and Living in Ancient Mesopotamia (Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
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• "The Verge" Audiobook Sneak Peak: Mercenaries and the Military Revolution (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
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• Patrick Wrote a Book! With Leah Sutherland and Rachel Kambury (Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
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• Iran, Central Asia, and the Caucasus Mountains (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
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• The Lives of Herders on the Ancient Steppes: Interview with Professor Alicia Ventresca Miller (Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
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• The Bronze-Age Steppe and the Emergence of the Indo-Iranians (Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
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• Ancient DNA, Indo-Europeans, and the Steppe: Interview with Professor David Anthony (Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
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• The Archaeology of Human Bones and the Iberian Copper Age: Interview with Dr. Jess Beck (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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• The Bell Beaker Phenomenon and the Rise of the Bronze Age (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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• Indo-European, Migration, and the Corded Ware Culture (Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
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• Cuneiform Literature, Medicine, and Mental Health: Interview with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid (Thu, May 27, 2021)
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• The Yamnaya Culture and the Proto-Indo-European Migrations (Thu, May 20, 2021)
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• Achilles, Gilgamesh, and Epic Poetry: Interview with Professor Michael Clarke (Thu, May 13, 2021)
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• The Indus Valley Civilization (Thu, May 06, 2021)
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• Ancient South Asia (Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
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• Bananas, Civilization, and Ancient Farming in New Guinea: Interview with Professor Tim Denham (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
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• The Invention of Agriculture in New Guinea (Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
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• Ancient Egypt in Context: Interview with Professor David Wengrow (Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
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• Ancient Tattooing: Interview with Aaron Deter-Wolf (Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
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• North America After the Ice Age: Interview with Professor Shane Miller (Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
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• Languages of the World in 3000 BC (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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• Understanding Prehistory Through Ethnography (Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
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• Egypt and the Rise of the Pharaohs (Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
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• Hunter-Gatherers, Archaeology, and Prehistory: Interview with Professor Robert Kelly (Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
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• Uruk and the Rise of Civilization (Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
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• Egypt Before the Pharaohs (Thu, Feb 11, 2021)
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• Classic Tides | Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore (Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
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• Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
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• What is Civilization? (Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
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• Alcohol and Agriculture in Prehistoric East Asia: Interview with Professor Li Liu (Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
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• Agriculture and Complex Societies in the Americas, 4000-1500 BC (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
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• The Americas from Foraging to Agriculture, 10,000 BC-4000 BC (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
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• Agriculture, Migration, and the Births of Language Families: Interview with Professor Peter Bellwood (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
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• Classic Tides | Europe After the Black Death (Thu, Dec 24, 2020)
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• Neolithic China and Jomon Japan (Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
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• East Asia in Prehistory (Thu, Dec 10, 2020)
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• Why Were There So Many Neolithic Farmers? And What Can Big Data Do For Archaeology? Interview with Professor Stephen Shennan (Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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• Classic Tides | Peasants' Rebellions and Resistance (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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• Neanderthals, Our Closest Kin: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
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• Ötzi the Iceman: The Neolithic Ice Mummy (Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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• Who Were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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• The Lost Civilization of Old Europe: The Copper Age and the First Cities (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
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• Classic Tides | Peasants and the Medieval Countryside (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
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• Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
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• Megalithic Europe (Thu, Oct 08, 2020)
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• The Neolithic Revolution: Europe's First Farmers (Thu, Oct 01, 2020)
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• How Did People Domesticate Animals? An Interview with Professor Greger Larson (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
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• The First Farmers (Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
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• After the Ice: The Younger Dryas, the Mesolithic, and the Birth of a New World (Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
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• How Should We Understand the Deep Human Past? Interview with Professor John Hawks (Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
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• New Insights on the First Americans: Interview with Professor Jennifer Raff (Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
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• Who Were the First Americans? (Thu, Aug 06, 2020)
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• Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World (Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
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• Ancient DNA and the Human Story: Interview with Geneticist Eske Willerslev (Thu, Jul 16, 2020)
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• The Ghosts of Archaic Humans (Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
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• Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
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• Did I End My Early Modern Series in the Right Place? Interview with Keith Pluymers (Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
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• The Globalization of the Year 1000: Interview with Professor Valerie Hansen (Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
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• Alaric, the Goths, and the Sack of Rome: Interview with Professor Douglas Boin (Thu, Jun 04, 2020)
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• John Maynard Keynes and His Legacies: Interview with Author and Journalist Zach Carter (Thu, May 28, 2020)
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• Malta, Lepanto, and the End of an Era (Thu, May 14, 2020)
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• The Battle for the Mediterranean (Thu, May 07, 2020)
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• Charles V and the Failure of Empire (Thu, Apr 30, 2020)
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• Mike Duncan on Pandemics, Revolutions, and COVID-19 (Thu, Apr 23, 2020)
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• The Rise of Charles V (Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
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• Pandemics in History (Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
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• Genetics and the Transformation of Prehistory: Interview with Spencer Wells and Razib Khan (Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
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• Classic Tides: Plague, Climate, and the End of the Roman World (Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
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• American Nations, American Union: Interview with Colin Woodard (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• Classic Tides: The Black Death Revisited (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
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• Suleiman the Magnificent and Ottoman Decline (Thu, Mar 12, 2020)
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• Suleiman the Magnificent and the Apex of the Ottoman Empire (Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
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• Pirates! With Leah Sutherland (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
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• The Ottomans, the Safavids, and the War for the Muslim World, 1501-1514 (Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
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• The Ottomans, the Mamluks, and the Clash for Control of the Muslim World (Thu, Feb 06, 2020)
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• Pilgrims, Puritans, and the Battle for New England: Interview with Historian Peter Mancall (Thu, Jan 23, 2020)
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• The Rising Tide of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1481 (Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
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• The Dawn of the Age of Exploration (Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
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• The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
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• Leah Interviews Dr. Patrick Wyman, PhD, about his upcoming book (Thu, Dec 12, 2019)
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• The Life of Margaret, Brewer of London (Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
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• Minisode: Is Netflix's "The King" Good History? And Winter Reading Recommendations! (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
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• The End of the Crusades and the Fall of Acre: An Interview with Historian Roger Crowley (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
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• Was the Protestant Reformation Inevitable? (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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• Medieval Merchants (Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
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• Persecution, Toleration, and the Rise of Modernity: An Interview with Historian Mark Koyama (Thu, Oct 31, 2019)
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• The Commercial Revolution (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
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• The Venetian Empire (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
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• The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones, Part 2 (Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
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• Why Rome Never Rose Again: An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel (Thu, Sep 19, 2019)
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• We Join Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie's Guild (And You Should, Too!) (Thu, Sep 12, 2019)
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• The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones (Thu, Sep 05, 2019)
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• The Rise of Printing and the Invention of News: An Interview with Professor Andrew Pettegree (Thu, Aug 29, 2019)
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• The Origins and Rise of Venice (Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
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• Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore (Thu, Aug 08, 2019)
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• The Experience of the Italian Wars (Thu, Aug 01, 2019)
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• Book Club: Summer Reading (Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
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• The Italian Wars, Part 2 (Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
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• Walls throughout History: An Interview with Professor David Frye (Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
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• The Italian Wars, Part 1 (Thu, Jul 04, 2019)
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• Minisode: Military Revolutions (Thu, Jun 27, 2019)
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• Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers (Thu, Jun 20, 2019)
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• Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy (Thu, Jun 13, 2019)
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• Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy (Thu, Jun 06, 2019)
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• Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence (Thu, May 30, 2019)
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• Minisode: Banking (Thu, May 23, 2019)
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• Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived? (Thu, May 16, 2019)
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• The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank (Thu, May 09, 2019)
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• The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Stanford's Professor Richard White (Thu, May 02, 2019)
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• Minisode: Messianic Rulers and Military Revolutions in Spain (Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
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• The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain (Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
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• Queen Isabella of Spain and the End of the Reconquista (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
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• Historical Fiction and the Wars of the Roses: An Interview with Philippa Gregory (Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
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• 1492: A Guided Tour of Europe on the Brink (Thu, Mar 21, 2019)
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• Who Was Christopher Columbus? With Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
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• Civil Servants, State Finance, and the Rising State (Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
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• The Troubled Inheritance of Mary of Burgundy and Dynastic Consolidation (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
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• The Rise and Fall of Burgundy (Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
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• Game of Thrones and Late Medieval Politics (Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
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• Civil Wars and Political Breakdowns in Late Medieval Europe (Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
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• The Wars of the Roses, II (Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
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• The Wars of the Roses (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
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• The Reformation, Live from Boston (Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
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• Archaeology Rules with Raksha Dave! (Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
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• Vlad the Impaler and the Legend of Dracula (Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
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• George Washington and the End of the Revolution: An Interview with Author Nathaniel Philbrick (Thu, Nov 29, 2018)
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• Beer, Brewsters, and Women's Work: An Interview with Judith Bennett (Thu, Nov 15, 2018)
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• The Fall of Constantinople and the Tragic End of the Byzantines (Thu, Nov 08, 2018)
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• Holy War and the Rise of the Ottomans (Thu, Nov 01, 2018)
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• Archaeology and Why It Rules (Thu, Oct 18, 2018)
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• Heresy, Witch Hunts, and Inquisition (Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
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• The Trials and Tribulations of the Late Medieval Church (Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
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• The Ebb and Flow of History (Thu, Jul 20, 2017)
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• Introducing Tides of History (Fri, Jul 07, 2017)
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