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Reflecting History is an educational history podcast that explores significant historical events and themes without losing track of the ordinary people involved. Covering a wide variety of t...
As atrocities and human rights violations continue in the Congo Free State, King Leopold II of Belgium sends out a "Commission of Inquiry" t...
As the evidence of atrocities in the Congo Free State became impossible to ignore, direct African resistance developed in numerous places ar...
As a result of a worldwide rubber boom where rubber became a highly demanded economic resource, the agents of the Congo Free State kicked of...
With King Leopold II of Belgium now in full control of the Belgian Congo, the extraction of ivory and other resources could begin. The story...
As European imperialism heated up in Africa in the late 1800's, King Leopold II of Belgium put into motion one of the most ambitious and vil...
From 1885 to 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium owned the Congo as his own personal colony. What transpired there over the course of his reign...
One particular episode of "The Bear" inspired me to think about Kazuo Ishiguro's classic novel "Never Let Me Go"- friendship, love, memory,...
The Odyssey concludes with release, purification, and contradiction. A legendary bow and arrow contest sets the stage for Odysseus' rampage...
Odysseus has finally made it home, but the Ithaca he has returned to is almost unrecognizable. "Dangerous men and fools" hold power now, and...
In books 11-16 of The Odyssey , Odysseus runs through a murderous string of mythological creatures on his long journey home. The Underworld,...
This episode delves into books 6-10 of The Odyssey . Odysseus has finally found a helping hand on his journey home, but before he can go, he...
Homer's The Odyssey is one of the oldest and most enduring stories in all of civilization. Set in the aftermath of the legendary Trojan War,...
In this episode I'm joined by historian Alexandra Birch to talk about the role of music and sound in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. We disc...
Is human morality a facade? What is human nature, when you strip away Civilization? How does "Civilization" respond to the answers to these...
What is Civilization? How did it develop and what are its goals? In his book "Civilization and Its Discontents," Sigmund Freud looks at thes...
What is happiness? Why is it so hard to achieve? What is "civilization" and how did it develop? Legendary psychologist Sigmund Freud seeks t...
In this episode I'm joined by Josh Johnson-host of Compendium: A History Collection , which is a history podcast covering a variety of topic...
This podcast provides an overview of fascism as both an ideology and a political tactic. In what ways was Nazi Germany a typical fascist sta...
The fall of the Roman Republic is one of the great stories in all of ancient history and it can still teach lessons relevant to every elemen...
Watch with video here : https://youtu.be/PB1eoviYJ2Y?si=cVOCqmRo5C_Li93y This is all eight chapters of my Aztec Memories series, all in one...
The Columbian Exchange remains maybe the most significant historical development in modern history-setting the stage for the world we inhabi...
For many fans of history, the story of the Aztec empire ends with the Spanish conquest and the fall of Tenochtitan. But there was a post-con...
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire provides a great opportunity to think about many complex historical questions. How should we think...
In November of 1519, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma and Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez met on the causeway leading to Tenochtitlan in maybe t...
While the Aztec Empire peaked in central Mexico, a different empire was spreading it's tenticles across the Atlantic Ocean. The Spanish were...
The Aztec Empire at its height in the 1400's was a flourishing civilization that had a rich social and cultural tradition. In addition to th...
From their new base in Tenochtitlan, the Mexica people slowly built the Aztec Empire over the course of the 1300's. While the "myth of the A...
The story of the Aztec Empire is a story unlike any other. From it's origins as a nomadic underdog, to it's ascendance at the rich and power...
This bonus episode is the first episode of a nine part podcast series on the Netflix show "Arcane." I recap season 1 of the show and delve i...
Is history a cycle? How do the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shed light on the discovery of prehistoric cave paintings at Lascau...
In 20th century China, ordinary people had to make incredibly hard decisions every day to simply survive. One generation passed the torch of...
What is memory? Why do we remember and forget? How does the puzzle of memory fit together or fall apart in our minds? In the 2022 film "Afte...
Leadership is one of the most interesting avenues of historical study, but also one of the most misunderstood. In this episode I'm joined by...
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" depicts a horrific wasteland that is the worst possible example of an existential threat coming to life. But li...
Philosophers and Psychologists have often imagined a "blank slate" to put different theories of human nature to the test. What would humanit...
"You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" imagines a post-apocalyptic wo...
In this episode I'm joined by historian Ruby Lal. Ruby is Professor of South Asian history at Emory University and the author of several boo...
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows...
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows...
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows...
While not being the book many fans wanted (and still haven't gotten…), George R.R. Martin's 2018 "Fire and Blood", a fictional history prequ...
Hello everyone, here is a bonus episode from my Patreon feed . Hope you enjoy it. It's been an amazing run for a long time now, so thank you...
This is Part II in a two part series on Alfonso Cuaron's 2018 masterpiece "Roma." This episode covers the second half of the movie and discu...
The story of an indigenous housekeeper in 1970's Mexico City allows us to examine themes of Mexican history-class, race, status, violence, a...
For the victims of the Mexican Dirty War and their families, all that's left of it now is spaces of memory. This episode is Part VI in a ser...
Does it make any sense to compare individual personality and memory to historical and collective memory? Much like our own memories, the pas...
Is violence necessary for change? The Mexican Dirty War provides an interesting lens through which to view this question. Leftist geurrilla...
What caused the Mexican Dirty War? A combination of economic, social, and political grievances built up over the course of hundreds of years...
How does the broader context of history affect our personal lives on a daily basis? How does historical memory and narrative storytelling ch...
The Mexican Dirty War was fought from the 1960's into the 1980's between the Mexican government and geurrilla insurgents. Geurrilla warfare...