John Burgoyne: The British Playboy Who Lost the Revolutionary War
No British General of the Revolutionary War has been written about more than John Burgoyne. That’s because of his surrender of his army at Saratoga, New York in 1777, widely seen as the turning point ...
14 Feb 202331min
How Britain Stole Intelligence from Nazi High Command Via Their German Drinking Buddies
"How might the British have handled Hitler differently?” remains one of history’s greatest "what ifs."Many fault the Neville Chamberlain administration of the 1930s with trying to appease the Fuhrer b...
9 Feb 202352min
The Encyclopedia: One Book’s Quest to Hold the Sum of All Knowledge
What if one book could contain the sum of mankind’s knowledge? Scholars and chroniclers have tried to write this book since antiquity, penning several so-called universal histories (perhaps the best w...
7 Feb 202332min
How Much Can One Individual Alter History? More and Less Than You Think
How far can a single leader alter the course of history? Thomas Carlyle, who promoted the Great Man Theory, says that talented leaders are the primary – if not the sole – cause of change. This view ha...
2 Feb 202342min
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
The most disruptive and transformative event in the Middle Ages wasn’t the Crusades, the Battle of Agincourt, or even the Black Death. It was the Mongol Conquests. Even after his death, Genghis Khan’s...
31 Jan 202342min
Weather Itself Was WW2's Fiercest Enemy: The Sinking of the USS Macaw
On January 16, 1944, the submarine rescue vessel USS Macaw ran aground at Midway Atoll while attempting to tow the stranded submarine USS Flier. The Flier was pulled free six days later but another th...
26 Jan 202334min
A Short History of War
Some anthropologists once believed that humanity lived in a peaceful state that lacked large-scale warfare before the arrival of large civilizations and all its wealth inequality and manufacture of we...
24 Jan 202350min
Stories From 300 British Men Executed For Cowardice During WW1
Over 300 men were executed by the British Army for desertion and cowardice during the first World War. In this episode preview from Vlogging Through History, host Chris Mowery explores the process for...
19 Jan 202313min
