The series aims to build a perspective on the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.

This episode builds background and covers about 600-700 years from 13th-century Russian principalities to Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin in 1917, right in the middle of World War I. 

This episode concludes the podcast series on the French Revolution, focusing on the widespread and far reaching impact of the revolution within and outside France.

This episode tracks the period of the French Revolution from 1795 - 1816, covering the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the details of the Coalition War, including the Peninsular War and the invasion of Russia. 

This episode explores the precipitation of the French Revolution in 1789 and the six years of the revolution which were full of civil unrest, barbaric activities, confusion, and yet progress towards freedom from absolute monarchy. 

The episode focuses on events from 1648 to 1774, which ultimately precipitated into French Revolution. We discuss the absolute monarchy under Louis XIV and XV and the role of the French Englightenment that led to the revolution. 

In this episode, we explore the period between a 200-Yr span from 1453-1648.  

We discuss the Reformation and the resulting 150 Years of religious tumult between Catholics and Protestants. It led to a shift of landscape across the Holy Roman further strengthening the French monarchy. 

This episode explores the consequences of the events during the time from 1300-1453 AD. A tumultuous time full of environmental and political turmoil that gave birth to interesting ideas and lay the foundation, as always, for the new transition. 

Dark Ages were not as dark. 

This episode focuses on the Holy Roman Empire between AD 800 to AD 1300 and the events that set the foundations for the many sweeping changes that were to happen in Europe in the coming centuries.