Great History Stories: Recent Episodes

Great History Stories

Short, serialized episodes telling some of the greatest stories in human history. Season one focused on the Donner Party, season two focused on underdogs, and Season three will focus on the Bronze Age collapse.

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Unfortunately, we're back. 

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End of Season 3. Thanks for coming along for the ride!

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Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

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Speculation, theories and chaos.

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Let me tell you a tale of a king and his kingdom.

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Shades of the Donner Party

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"It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet." - Charles Kuralt

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A myth and a theory.

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Even more ancient Greeks and the impact of 40 nuclear bombs going off at once.

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An ocean of trouble.

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We meet (and then leave) the Mitanni.

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Giving a sense of scale for bronze age combat.

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I apologize for all the names butchered in this episode. Then again, if you've made it this far, you know that's par for the course by now.

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The Egyptians are to us what the Elves are to Middle Earth: crazy old.

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Getting to know the world we will be exploring.

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It's the end of the world as we know it!

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We'll be back soon. Promise.

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Less exciting than Dr. Dre's album, but covers slightly more influential events.

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The stage is set for greatness.

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This is a good time to be alive, but not an easy one.

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Florence Nightingale could have been anything she wanted to be.

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Pre-Nightingale hospitals weren't great.

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Why do we love war?

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Whoops.

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Thus, the folly of man.

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The greatest history story of our lifetime is happening right now. What are we going to do about it?

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When can their glory fade?

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Happy Memorial Day, we'll get back to the action properly next week.

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A bunch of names that I can't pronounce.

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"Walk softly and carry a big stick" - A man physically incapable of walking softly.

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Note: don't punch people in the nose.

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Reality is often disappointing

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Man vs Wild, but without the camera crews and the hotel rooms.

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If you think social distancing stinks, try breaking every bone in your body and being left for dead.

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Close encounters of the fur kind.

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This is not the end.

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I expected the apocalypse to be full of zombies and anarchy and all I got was working from home and no toilet paper.

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The man. The myth. The legend. Featuring some familiar faces.

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We're parting ways with Taffy 3, one way or another.

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A Destroyer Escort fights like a battleship.

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RIP Terry.

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In the words of John Wayne: "Fill your hands, you- (censored on the chance my mom listens to these and I don't want to disappoint her any more than I already do)"

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A real life uno reverse card is played.

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You PLAY to WIN the GAME.

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The GOAT and the second best Manning square off on the gridiron.

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Guess who's back. Back again. Mark is back. Tell a friend.

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The conclusion of a tale half a year in the making.

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Louis has some explaining to do.

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The before and after pictures would have gone viral.

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Is that Paul Bunyan? No, it's John Stark.

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Cady and Stone have bigger things to worry about.

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One in Four Hundred Trillion

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Justice or Mercy? That is the question.

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Our longest, most obnoxious title yet.

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How to move an immovable object.

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Greasy Jim travels east (along with some other dudes with way less fun names).

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Individualism takes on Collectivism

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The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

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The end of the line for the Forlorn Hope.

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Louis and Salvador are looking awfully delicious.

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A deep dive into cannibalism (aka Mark's browsing history is flagged forever as a potential threat to society)

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Nothing says Christmas like starving to death in the High Sierra Nevada Mountains and going insane.

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The dying begins in mass.

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Franklin Graves gets industrious; madmen chase mice.

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A pep talk and a hunting trip.

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Duty calls; Charles Stanton answers.

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Several cold calculations lead to several deaths.

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Tanks on hooves go where they want; the Donner Party does not.

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The party begins down The Hastings Cutoff and quickly discover that Hastings is more talk than walk.

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The immigrants celebrate the "Glorious 4th of July" and get swindled out of an important letter.

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A 70 year old woman, an ex-governor, and an American Legend hit the trail.

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The Donner party prepares to set off on the journey west, but stumble out of the gate.

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