Episode 64: The Bosnian War Part III-Hatred
Hatred is often given as the historical reason for wars and other nasty events throughout history. There was certainly plenty of it to go around in Bosnia during the 1990's, but how have historians be...
28 Okt 201925min
Episode 63: The Bosnian War Part II-The Siege of Sarajevo
For well over two years, Bosnian Serb forces bombarded Sarajevo in an attempt to destroy the city and break the spirit of the people who lived there. Thousands of civilians (including children) were k...
7 Okt 201939min
Episode 62: The Bosnian War Part I-The Perils of Nationalism
No one who lived through it will ever forget what happened in Bosnia during the 1990's. What had been a unified and (mostly) peaceful region only a few years before melted down into war, chaos, and ge...
16 Sep 201947min
Episode 61: Chance, Randomness, and Luck in History
Historians, philosophers, and armchair historians have often pondered the role of chance in history. To what extent does randomness or luck dictate what happens to us? Are the events of history just a...
26 Aug 201927min
Episode 60: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part VI-Death by a Thousand Cuts
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon to ignite yet another Roman Civil War, nobody at the time knew that this was the end of the Republic. Caesar's victory in his clash with the forces of Pompey, hi...
5 Aug 201951min
Episode 59: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part V-The New Normal
With the Republic rebuilding after the wreckage caused by Marius and Sulla, a new cast of political characters was taking power in Rome. Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cicero, Cato, and others are al...
15 Jul 201956min
Episode 58: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part IV-You Win or You Die
As violence increasingly became a tool at the disposal of corrupt and cynical Romans, it also became a last resort for frustrated and hopeless Romans and Italian Allies. As a result of the Republic's ...
24 Jun 201942min
Episode 57: The Fall of the Roman Republic Part III-The Gracchan Revolution
Many historians have cited moral decline that began after the Punic Wars as a leading cause in the decline of the Roman Republic. While there are different interpretations of this idea, the conflict b...
3 Jun 201936min
