x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

A Short Walk through Our Long History

I think that if you want to understand the world we live in today, it helps to understand the important events of history. In this series, we are going to look at major events, people, documents, places, books, and ideas that have shaped history, and thus shaped our modern world.

history

All Episodes

17:33

Episode 51 - Middle Ages Retrospective

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/04/27

Wow, our 51st episode. We’ll be talking about the modern world any day now. But before we get to the New World, the Enlightenment, The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the chaos of the 1800’s, the further chaos of the 1900’s, and the soul-crushing angst of the new millennium, let’s take a look back at the chaos of the 400’s, the chaos of the Vikings, the soul-crushing angst of feudalism, the awe-inspiring majesty of the Renaissance, and the paradigm-shifting insights of

en

25:25

Episode 50 - William Shakespeare

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/04/25

Well guys, we’re right at the end of the Middle Ages. [much rejoicing clip ] It’s been a longer process than I thought it would be back when I decided to call this podcast a ‘short’ walk through our long history. It’s taken us 50 episodes to get through all of human history up to AD 1600. We covered the ancient world in episodes 1 through 26, and then covered the Middle Ages from episode 27 though this episode, episode 50. And it feels fitting that we end the Middle Ages on a high

en

21:36

Episode 49 - Elizabethan England

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/04/04

Last episode, I spent a bit of time on Henry VIII, who was a very important monarch - but I didn’t give him a full episode, he was just shoehorned into the episode on the Reformation spreading to England. But this time, I’m giving the whole episode to one ruler - Queen Elizabeth the first. I might need to eventually give Elizabeth the second her own episode too, but I haven’t thought that far ahead yet. Why am I giving Elizabeth the first her own episode? I haven’t given that many

en

17:59

Episode 48 - The Counter-Reformation

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/03/15

Last episode, we looked at the Reformation spreading out of Germany, and into other parts of Northern Europe, particularly looking at how England was affected. One of the side effects of the north part of Europe leaving the Catholic Church was that Catholic Church itself was also forced to change. The Catholic Church needed to take a hard look at itself, and decide how to go forward. That process was called the Counter Reformation. At least, that’s what the Protestants called it. The

en

18:40

Episode 47 - The Reformation Spreads across Northern...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/03/14

Well, did you enjoy our brief excursion into hell last episode? I did. Since the world didn’t end, and we didn’t get to experience the afterlife first-hand, I guess we’re stuck here for a while. So let’s keep looking at history, and see if there’s anything we can learn from it. Before everything went to hell, we were talking about Martin Luther and the beginning of the Reformation. Again, the Reformation was kind of exclusive to northern Europe. Part of the reason for this is that the

en

30:27

Episode 46 - The History of Hell

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/02/25

Fair warning here up front, this episode is a bit long. The history of hell is, appropriately, long and convoluted, so the episode has run on a bit despite my best editing efforts. I should also give fair warning here at the beginning, that some of what I’m going to say is not exactly in line with the conventional teachings of some churches today. So, if you’re a church-goer, I’m just giving you fair warning that I may some things in this episode that you might disagree with. I will also

en

24:44

Episode 45 - Martin Luther and the Reformation

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/02/17

There are occasionally, in the history of the world, those singular moments, an instant in time, when everything changes. One single action, one quick moment, and then everything after that is altered. The course of history is changed. Caesar crossing the Rubicon, the guy in crow’s nest of the Santa Maria shouting ‘Tierra!!’ (Land). The first gunshot at the battle of Lexington, the arch-duke of Austria-Hungary being assassinated, John and Paul meeting for the first time in Liverpool.

en

24:53

Episode 44 - The Inquisition

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/02/04

It wasn’t in my long-term plan for the podcast to do an episode on the Inquisition, but I thought of it while I was working on the episode about Galileo, and thought, that’s a pretty good topic, so I made a snap decision to add this episode about it. It makes sense to put it here, because Wycliffe, Hus, and Galileo, all of whom I mentioned last episode, were tried by some type of church Inquisition, and Hus even lost his life to it.

en

21:51

Episode 43 - The Northern Renaissance and the First...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/01/24

A few episodes ago, we talked about the Renaissance, and we were focused on what happened in Italy, where the Renaissance started. The Renaissance spread out of Italy into the rest of Europe, but as it spread into new places, other things besides amazing art began to be added to the rebirth. Specifically, as the Renaissance spread north, in addition to new art, there were a lot of advances in science, theology, politics, and philosophy. While the southern renaissance was mainly an

en

28:49

Episode 42 - The Portuguese and Spanish Colonies in...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/12/02

OK, in the last episode, we had Columbus finding the New World, but thinking it was India. Meanwhile, Vasco de Gama found the actual India for Portugal. Then John Cabot found Newfoundland, only 500 years after Lief Ericson had found Newfoundland. Maybe they should call it re-found land. Anyway, by about 1510, the seafaring powers of Europe had a pretty good map of the east coast of the Americas, from the north part of Canada, down to the south part of Brazil. They also had a map of

en

15:26

Episode 41- The Golden Age of Exploration

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/11/17

One of the things you might have noticed in the past few episodes, besides the fact that we were jumping around in time a bit, was that we actually got a bit into the 1500’s. For example, the High Renaissance ended in 1520, with the death of Raphael.An anyone with any sense of history at all knows that by getting into the 1500’s, we have missed one of the most historic dates of all time, 1492. Famous and infamous, but no doubt, one of the most important dates in history. But before

en

20:13

Episode 40 - The Hundred Years' War

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/11/15

OK, so in my original plan for the flow of the podcast, I wasn’t going to talk about the Hundred Years War, but the more I looked at what was going on in European History, the more I felt like it was worth talking about. Why? Well, the hundred years war happened at a crucial time, it was kind of the last thing that happened before the Renaissance spread to England and France and really set the stage for those two countries to have their own Renaissances, and it set the stage for the

en

18:31

Episode 39 - Gutenberg and the Printing Press

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/11/12

Well, I was going to try to squeeze Gutenberg into the last episode, since he actually lived before the High Renaissance, and his invention kind of fit into the ethos of talking about the high points of the Renaissance. But there was just too much to cover in one episode, plus Gutenberg really does deserve his own episode. The TV channel A&E did a countdown, back in 1999, just before the new millennium began, and it counted down the most important people of the last 1000 years - so

en

23:25

Episode 38 - The High Renaissance

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/11/10

Ok, here we are. The High Renaissance. Lots of great stuff happened during the Renaissance, but there was one particular period, about 35 years, where some of the greatest art in all of human history was made. And I’m just going to say up front, that for this episode, you really do have to go to the podcast website and look at the art yourself. I mean, I can describe Michelangelo’s David statue, or you can look at a picture of. It’s far too visual an episode for just a podcast. The

en

21:56

Episode 37 - The Renaissance Begins

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/10/22

It’s hard to overstate how important the Renaissance was. It’s kind of one of the highest high points of all of human history. I mean, there are Renaissance faires all over the US, including one in Texas that starts next week. Fortuitous timing, that. But there’s not really faires for other stuff - there’s no ‘Reformation faire,’ nor an ‘Enlightenment Faire.’ There’s definitely not any ‘Dark Ages Faires.’ It’s because the Renaissance was a good time. It was a time when Europe began

en

12:41

Episode 36 - The Beginning of the Age of Exploration

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/10/12

Polo! Yes, in this episode, I’m starting with Marco Polo. There’s not a lot of people who I have looked at over the course of this podcast where I say, ‘Man, I would have liked to have had his life,’ but Marco Polo is someone whose life sounds pretty awesome. Not free of hardship, but whose life is? Anyway, his life was pretty epic. Also, he seems like a pretty good guy, despite being hard to find in a pool.

en

17:39

Episode 35 - The Far East and the Mongols

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/10/05

We’ve already talked about a lot of galloping hordes in this podcast, including the Goths, the Huns, and the Vikings. But there is one tribe that outstrips them all, and even outstrips the Roman Empire in terms of sheer territory conquered. In fact, this tribe conquered and ruled the largest territory in the entire history of the world. Yes, I’m talking about Genghis Khan and the Mongols.

en

24:24

Episode 34 - Medieval Literature

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/09/23

Ok, I know, there’s nothing more eye-rollingly boring than medieval literature, right? Wrong! It’s super interesting, in the stories that are told, and in the development of English as a language, and in the development of the novel as a literary genre. Did you read Harry Potter? Those were good novels, right? Both the concept of a novel, and also some of the cool things in Harry Potter, like wizards, hippogriffs, magic wands, magic potions - a lot of these ideas come from medieval

en

15:44

Episode 33 - The Crusades - Part II

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/09/05

en

16:38

Episode 32 - The Crusades - Part I

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2022/08/30

en

132 results

Similar Podcasts

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Today In History with The Retrospectors

The Retrospectors

جنود خلدهم التاريخ

ALSUMOOD PODCAST

Film History - Daily

Inception Point Ai

Madonna - Biography Flash

Inception Point Ai