When Did Things Happen in the Ancient World? Interview with Professor Sturt Manning
We can’t understand the past without understanding when things happened, because if we can’t place them in some sort of chronological order, we can’t understand the relationship between them. But how ...
23 Sep 20210s
Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete
The Late Bronze Age was a remarkable time in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. An interconnected world sprang up, tying together the lands from Greece and Crete in the west all the way to M...
16 Sep 20210s
How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the whole of human history can be divided into two parts: before the Industrial Revolution, and after. Economist Duncan Weldon joins me to talk about the Industria...
9 Sep 20210s
The Early Aegean Bronze Age and Minoan Crete
From mainland Greece to Minoan Crete and the famous city of Troy, what made the Aegean Sea one of the constituent pieces of the Bronze Age world? All of these cities are linked, not just by their prox...
2 Sep 20210s
Mike Duncan on the Marquis de Lafayette and His New Book, Hero of Two Worlds
Bestselling author and history podcaster extraordinaire Mike Duncan returns to Tides to talk about his new book, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution. It’s a wonderful...
26 Aug 20210s
Sargon of Akkad and the World's First Empire
More than 4,000 years ago, a ruler came to power in the fractious, war-torn lands of Mesopotamia. He ruled a small state north of the region's ancient heartland, a place called Akkad, but over the cou...
19 Aug 20210s
Mike Duncan and Patrick in Conversation at Powell's Books: "The Verge," Ancient Rome, and Doing History
To mark the release of Patrick's book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World, he did a virtual event with Powell's Bookstore in Portland, hosted by history podcaster...
12 Aug 20210s
Colonies and the Quest for Resources in Early Modern Europe: Interview with Dr. Keith Pluymers
Friend of the Show Dr. Keith Pluymers returns to tell us about how people thought about and fought over resources, especially wood, in early modern England. Scarcity, Keith argues, is more about perce...
5 Aug 20210s
