Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 4 | Napoleon’s Betrayal, Juarez’s Advance and the Fateful Decision | Ancient to Recent | Episode 29
By late 1865, the Second Mexican Empire was beginning to unravel. French support, once the foundation of Maximilian’s throne, was wavering, Republican resistance was intensifying, and pressure from a ...
20 Des 202546min
Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 3 | Juarez, the Catholic Church & the US Civil War | Ancient to Recent I Episode 28
At the height of his power, Emperor Maximilian believed he could reconcile monarchy with liberal reform and heal a nation torn apart by decades of war. By the end of 1864, the Second Mexican Empire st...
13 Des 202543min
Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 2 | US Civil War, Franz Josef and the Catholic Church |Ancient to Recent I Episode 27
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria crossed the Atlantic to claim a crown forged in diplomacy, ambition, and illusion. What awaited him in Mexico was not the enlightened monarchy he imag...
6 Des 202541min
Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Benito Juárez, Napoleon III & Habsburg Mexico | Ancient to Recent I Episode 26
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria took the throne as Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, believing he could unite a fractured nation and build a modern empire. Instead, he stepped into one o...
29 Nov 202556min
Hermann Goering and the Nazi Mind | How the Nazis Were Captured, Studied & Prepared for Nuremberg | Ancient to Recent | Episode 24
In 1945, the Allies seized the top surviving Nazi leaders and locked them inside a secret U.S. prison known as Ashcan. At the center of it all was Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall, head of the Luftwaff...
14 Nov 202546min
The Ukrainian Revolution Part 4 | Holodomor: Stalin’s Terror-Famine in Ukraine | Ancient to Recent | Episode 23
In 1932–33, Ukraine faced one of the deadliest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holodomor. Stalin’s regime seized food, blacklisted entire villages, sealed Ukraine’s borders, and used starvation as ...
7 Nov 202549min
The Ukrainian Revolution Part III | Stalin’s Collectivisation: The War on Ukraine’s Peasants | Ancient to Recent | Episode 22
By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, church...
31 Okt 202545min
