The History of the Twentieth Century

Slavic people occupy half the land area of Europe, and Slav nationalism is going to be a driving force in the history of the 20th century. This episode explains the history of the Slavs, with a specia...

10 Apr 201642min

The 1904 World's Fair helped define America in the 20th century.

3 Apr 201646min

Pablo Picasso begins his career in Paris, the city of the 1900 Exposition and Olympic Games. Turmoil in Morocco gives the French an opportunity to move in, but first they need to come to an understand...

20 Mar 201642min

Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley expounds on international courts, and argues that what we really need is an international police force.

17 Mar 20169min

Roosevelt tours America and runs for re-election. Ugly racial violence erupts in the South. An American citizen is kidnapped in Morocco, and somebody thought, "This would make a great movie."

13 Mar 201643min

The remarkable unification of Italy in the nineteenth century was complete, but the problem of uniting these disparate peoples of the peninsula, who over the course of centuries had grown accustomed t...

6 Mar 201641min

La nascita della Italia moderna.

28 Feb 201642min

We return to the USA to take a look at some more issues facing President Roosevelt. Possible war crimes in the Philippines. Cuban independence. The Colombia Panama Canal. A major coal strike. And, mos...

21 Feb 201645min