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Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and and how we earn...
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At long last, we've reached the end of Tides of History, and I can't thank you all enough for coming along on this long journey. We end with...
Author Craig Fehrman's new book on Lewis and Clark, This Vast Enterprise, is one of the best things I've read in years. We discuss the richn...
Patrick's new book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World comes out May 5th! Check out a free preview of the...
Does history repeat itself? Not really, but that's not the reason it's worth studying: Our past is nothing more or less than the collective...
Gladiators are one of the most instantly recognizable yet alien aspects of Roman society, and Dr. Harry Sidebottom's new book - Those Who Ar...
The city of Babylon has appeared in our episodes time and again over the past several years: as the center of empires, a victim of vicious c...
Academic history and popular history are very different things, but what is their purpose? And how should we, as people who like and consume...
If we want to understand how and why the human story has unfolded in the way it has, then we have to understand migration: large numbers of...
It's time for one last mailbag! I cover everything from which historical figure would be the best Poster on social media to how ancient auth...
The ability to recover ancient DNA from archaeological remains is one of the greatest scientific innovations of our time, but how has it imp...
What did the Mediterranean look like at the moment of Rome's triumph in 146 BC? Join me as we go on one final trip around the wine-dark sea,...
he Atlantic World is one of the major concepts in academic history, a way of linking together all the various places around the fringes of t...
The best way to understand the impact slavery had on a person's life is to follow their journey through the institution, but the ancient wor...
Slavery was foundational to ancient societies, but it was never a single thing: The experiences of the enslaved varied dramatically dependin...
Check out Patrick's new show, Past Lives ! You can listen on your platform of choice through the links here , and be sure to subscribe to th...
It's been quite a while since I've answered listener questions, so here are a bunch on everything from the best depictions of siege warfare...
Every year, new archaeological discoveries claim to rewrite what we think we knew about the ancient Americas, but how much can we trust the...
The rise of the Roman Republic was built on conquest and war, but also on the massively expanding economy of Italy as a whole and Rome in pa...
Runic writing carries connotations of magic and fantasy, but it was a widespread, useful, and long-lasting system of writing. Professor Tom...
Let's imagine a Macedonian soldier during the time of Alexander the Great. How did this man, whom we'll call Red Cleitus, spend the vast amo...
Patrick's new book, Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World, launches May 5th, 2026! Check out this audiobook...
Check out a scripted episode of Patrick's new show, Past Lives ! Nearly 2,700 years ago, a woman and her daughter were ripped away from thei...
We've talked about how rich classical Athens was, but what did that mean for an average person living at the time? In this episode, we follo...
Like many of you, I first fell in love with history through the movies. Dr. Jason Herbert hosted a podcast called Historians at the Movies ,...
Patrick has a new history podcast, Past Lives ! It's all about the experiences of real, everyday people throughout the human past, people ju...
Ancient Greece was rich compared to other ancient societies, and Athens was the richest place of all within ancient Greece. But why? The ans...
From Patrick Wyman (host of Fall of Rome and Tides of History) comes Past Lives, a brand new podcast! Every week, we’ll focus on the lived e...
The Hundred Years War was the defining conflict of the Middle Ages, but today's guest - Professor Michael Livingston of the Citadel - argues...
As the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age, the economy of the Mediterranean shifted dramatically. It expanded to encompass the entire sea f...
Professor Eric Cline, author of the outstanding book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed , returns to the show to discuss his new book:...
Millions of people called ancient Egypt home, and the vast majority of them weren't kings or high priests; they were humble farmers and labo...
Carbon dioxide is central to the story of Earth from its beginning more than 4 billion years ago all the way up to the present. Peter Branne...
We don't usually think of the Neo-Babylonian Empire as one of the economic powerhouses of the ancient world, but this short-lived state actu...
What was the ancient economy? Can we even speak of such a singular thing? Today, I introduce the next block of episodes on Tides, an in-dept...
The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiqu...
Thucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested, and debated fo...
While Alexander the Great's successors were fighting over control of his empire, Celtic-speaking migrants were moving east along the Danube...
The Celts invaded Greece in 280-279 BC, an entirely unforeseen breakthrough of a nearly unknown people into the mainstream of the Hellenisti...
The European Iron Age is known almost solely through archaeology, and the material record of the period is still showing us fascinating new...
We're most familiar with the Celts of the west, the people who eventually fought Julius Caesar in Gaul and left their languages along the At...
When we think of Rome's most dangerous foes, our attention usually turns to Hannibal and his ilk, but it was really the Gauls of northern It...
We have long thought of the Celts (or Gauls) as the antithesis of the ""civilized"" cultures of the Mediterranean, but new research shows th...
Most people today remember the Roman aristocratic woman Clodia as the target of one of Cicero's nastiest works, but Douglas Boin has written...
David Chaffetz, author of the recent and truly outstanding book Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, joins Tides...
Why did Rome win? It's a simple question, but the answer is anything but. To figure it out, we have to look not only at what made Rome speci...
We usually think of the American Civil War as a conflict fought between massive armies at famous battlefields like Gettysburg, but that's no...
At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key fi...
The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their start as bankers, and built a financial em...
For most of its history, Rome barely bothered with the Greek east. Then, quite suddenly, Rome exploded onto the scene, laying low the two mo...
Thomas More is one of the most fascinating figures of the 16th century: saint, persecutor of Protestants, government official, martyr. But w...
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