Explore the "Scramble for Africa" and the 350-year French conquest of Indochina, where state-sponsored opium addiction and forced labor funded a colonial empire. This episode examines the heavy human and cultural toll behind the massive infrastructure and industrial projects of 19th-century imperialism.

This episode explores how Victorian medicine made sense of disease before microbes, from miasmas and dietary warnings to rest cures, bleeding, and home treatments. It then follows the scientific breakthroughs of cell theory and germ theory that transformed how doctors understood illness and infection.

This episode explores how industrialization, urban poverty, and the upheaval of the French Revolution created a political pressure cooker in Europe. It then compares liberalism and conservatism as rival responses to revolution, from constitutional government and civil rights to order, tradition, and monarchy.

This episode explores how Napoleon rose as First Consul by promising stability after years of revolutionary turmoil, while centralizing power in a highly efficient but undemocratic regime. It also examines his major reforms in religion, law, the economy, and education, including the Concordat, the Code Napoléon, and the rebuilding of French society under state control.

This Grade 12 World History episode explores how John Wycliffe and Jan Hus challenged the medieval Catholic Church long before Martin Luther. Guided by host Jane Phillips, students will examine their key beliefs about Scripture, church corruption, and salvation; how their ideas spread through movements like the Lollards and the Bohemian reform; and why later Protestants saw them as "forerunners" or "morning stars" of the Reformation.

Explore the turbulent clash between Catholics and Protestants in 16th-century France, from the fiery Reformation to the fragile peace of the Edict of Nantes. Discover how power, fear, and faith shaped a nation in conflict and transformation.