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This is a historical show examining the momentous events and interesting people of the second decade of the 19th century, the 1810s. From Jefferson to Napoleon, from Iceland to Antarctica, h...
Nine small islands, called the Isles of Shoals, lie off the coast just over the line between New Hampshire and Maine. One of them, Smuttynos...
In March 1815, in London, Elizabeth Fenning served a plate of dumplings to the family that employed her as a cook. Almost all members of the...
For centuries, the historic region of Lithuania, torn between its powerful European neighbors, was one of the great centers of Jewish cultur...
This brief trailer is to introduce you to Second Decade host Sean Munger's newest podcast, a fiction/alternate history show called Age of Co...
This is a crossover episode with the Green Screen podcast. Leo Tolstoy’s epic 1869 novel War & Peace is undeniably one of the great classics...
After being sold out by the great European powers, especially Great Britain, as a sop to Sweden, the people of Norway felt angry and betraye...
At the beginning of the Napoleonic era, Norway was not its own country, but rather the junior partner in the unequal combination of Denmark-...
The bodies of dead human beings can tell us a lot about the past, but most human remains from the distant past tend to be rich or important...
America was growing rapidly in the 1810s, and growth meant building. Buildings of all kinds, from churches, markets and houses to banks and...
The mysterious weather and climate anomalies of the Year Without Summer did not end with the coming of fall or the end of the calendar year...
For many people around the world, 1816 was the oddest summer they ever lived through. Snow from the previous winter was still left in places...
The “Year Without Summer,” 1816, is one of those things that many people have heard of, but very few know anything substantive about. It was...
In the 1810s, St. John’s, Newfoundland was possibly the most remote and inaccessible corner of British America. Located on an island that wa...
Jane Austen is rightly considered perhaps the greatest British novelist of her day, or any age. Her novels about women, marriage and family...
One of the most bizarre and mysterious cultures in human history, ancient Egypt still holds considerable interest for us today. This was eve...
If you’ve never heard of John Caragea and have no idea where Wallachia is, you’re certainly not alone. This look at the seamy underbelly of...
For most of human history, Antarctica was more of a concept than a reality. Geographers from ancient times and voyagers in the Age of Discov...
It’s been a while—too long—since the last episode of Second Decade. In this brief bonus episode, Sean Munger talks to you, the listeners, ab...
This bonus episode, the third one released in conjunction with Sean Munger’s newly-released novel Jake’s 88 (which is set in the 80s), exami...
This bonus episode, the second one released in conjunction with Sean Munger’s upcoming novel Jake’s 88 (which is set in the 80s), examines t...
In the summer of 1817, residents of the coastal town of Gloucester, Massachusetts suddenly began seeing a mysterious creature swimming aroun...
This bonus episode, released in conjunction with Sean Munger’s upcoming novel Jake’s 88 (which is set in the 80s), examines the political, c...
“Waterloo” is a name so historic and iconic that it’s taken on more than its literal meaning—when we speak of someone “meeting their Waterlo...
In retellings of history, Napoleon’s brief return to power in the spring of 1815 is often portrayed as an audacious surprise, the ultimate c...
Napoleon was the kind of guy who didn’t know when the party was over. Following his disastrous defeat in Russia in 1812 (chronicled in Episo...
This is a bonus episode which goes outside the parameters of the main Second Decade show. Astoria, Oregon was founded in 1811 as an outpost...
This is a bonus episode which goes outside the parameters of the main Second Decade show. Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, somebo...
At the end of the Second Decade, after many tumultuous years of war and revolution, Spain’s colonial empire in the New World began to collap...
The process of detaching Latin America from three centuries of colonial Spanish rule was hardly a linear one. Simón Bolívar, the most import...
Simón Bolívar is one of the giants of Latin American history, with statutes, portraits and monuments to him everywhere from Panama to Tierra...
Pressured by environmental change and the coming of European colonizers along the coasts, southern Africa in the 1810s was a complicated and...
Iceland was, in 1809, a very different place than we think of it today. It was still a picturesque, craggy island belching steam and lava fr...
What was the White House really like in the early part of the 19th century? Always under construction, reconstruction, redecoration or renov...
Originally built in the 1790s largely with slave labor, from the very beginning the White House was an eerie mirror of American society, inc...
Though it started as a convenient dumping ground for Britain’s human refuse, the colony of Australia was not destined to remain a prison for...
In the 1810s, the British penal colony of Australia, known then as New South Wales, was barely 20 years old. Already it had sunk into a mora...
This is an Off Topic episode, involving historical topics outside the scope of the main podcast. This episode spins off Episode 27 of the ma...
In the Second Decade, Japan was the most exotic, unknown and isolated country in the world. Since the early 17th century the Tokugawa Shogun...
In October 1812, over 900 American troops surrendered to the British after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Queenston Heights. Most of...
This is the first in a projected series of bonus episodes called Second Decade: Off Topic, which examine historical topics outside the scope...
You’ve probably heard of Daniel Boone and “Grizzly” Adams, the quintessential frontier mountain men who helped forge America’s frontier iden...
Church steeples, horse-drawn sleighs, picket fences, snow-covered fields...is this what you think of when you picture an old-time winter in...
You may not have heard of David Ramsay, but if you lived in Charleston, South Carolina in the second decade, you would probably know him—if...
The early months of the War of 1812 served up a relentless drumbeat of bad news for the United States: our untrained and ill-equipped forces...
The image and concept of Frankenstein’s monster—most notably personified by Boris Karloff in the 1931 Universal horror film—are indelible in...
Since the beginning of film as a narrative and artistic medium, historical events and eras have been popular subjects for filmmakers. The de...
Despite being one of the longest-reigning British monarchs as well as wildly popular among his own people, King George III gets a bad rap as...
Despite seeming to the West as if it was “sleeping,” China in the 1810s was in fact experiencing the crucial transition of the Qing (Manchu)...
The year 1814 was one of the bleakest in American history. It opened with the country embroiled in war, with most of its coast blockaded by...
Having declared war at a time it was woefully unprepared to face the world’s most powerful country on the battlefield, the United States spe...