Reflecting History

Reflecting History

Author: Reflecting History Language: English Episodes: 100
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Reflecting History is an educational history podcast that explores significant historical events and themes without losing track of the ordinary people involved. Covering a wide variety of topics, it explores the connection between history, psychology, and philosophy.
Episodes
BONUS: The Paper Menagerie [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:33
Ken Liu's amazing short story "The Paper Menagerie" is simple but poignant. It provides an opportunity to think about some of the most important things in life: love, culture, history, regret, memories, identity, and mor…
Episode 91: The Cambodian Genocide Part II-Endure and Survive [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:46
What was life like under the Khmer Rouge? Ordinary life for millions of Cambodians was filled with fear, torment, and despair. Yet the people of Cambodia also demonstrated resilience, resistance, and an enduring human sp…
Episode 90: The Cambodian Genocide Part I-The Dark Years Begin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:25
A potent mix of communism, nationalism, racialism, imperialism, and violence resulted in the Khmer Rouge coming to power in Cambodia in 1975. Led by a man going by the name of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge orchestrated the de…
Episode 89: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:55
"Grief burns but does not consume." A grieving merchant stumbles into the shop of an Alchemist, who shows him a device that allows the user to travel 20 years forward or backward in time. The history of the device and th…
Episode 87: They Thought They Were Free [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:20
Shortly after the end of World War II, journalist Milton Mayer visited an ordinary town in West Germany to live with and interview former civilians of Nazi Germany. His goal was to answer some deep questions: to what ext…
Episode 86: The Fate of Rome Part III-The Crisis of the Third Century [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:11
Much has been made of the great Roman crisis of the 200's AD. Civil war, political strife, economic dysfunction, and the collapse of the frontier system were just a few of the major problems that threatened to collapse t…
Episode 85: The Fate of Rome Part II-The Antonine Plague [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:33
The Roman Empire during the Pax Romana was in many ways a golden age of ancient commerce, urbanization, and connectivity. But the same things that made the empire great also made the empire vulnerable to a new type of da…

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