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by Samuel Biagetti, PhD

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Will the real "History of the United States in 100 Objects" please stand up?

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We compare the ongoing series, "History of the United States in 100 Objects," which has been running on historiansplaining podcast since 2018, to the new series of the same title, launched earlier this year by 99% Invisible and BBC Studios…
Reading -- New England poems: Lowell & Sexton

August 28, 2026 · 15 min

We read poems dealing with the religious and intellectual history of New England & grappling with the legacies of Puritanism, the Great Awakening, and Transcendentalism: Robert Lowell's "Mr. Edwards and the Spider" and "Jonathan Edwards in…
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August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

A colony built on cod: We follow how the massive seasonal fishing industry of the 1500s, with its intense competition among Spanish, English, French, Basque, & Portuguese mariners in the frigid North Atlantic waters off of Newfoundland…
Excerpt: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 2: Sometimes a Garrote is Just a Garrote

July 28, 2026 · 12 min

Post on patreon for patrons only for 6 months: We tackle the deepest mystery surrounding the ancient bog bodies: why were people ritually killed and deposited in bogs for millennia? Were they targets of murder, execution, or sacrifice? We…
Doorways in Time, pt. 11: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 1: Something Isn't Rotten in the State of Denmark

July 14, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

The most exhaustive survey that you will find of the “Bog Bodies” – the highly preserved human remains, often of ancient Iron-Age people whose lives were ended violently, that have been discovered in wetlands all across northern Europe…

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Unlocked: The Keys of Heaven & Earth: The History of the Papacy -- pt. 2

July 5, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min

Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: We follow the tribulations of the Papacy through the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, as the Pope's loyal soldiers in the Jesuit order are expelled from Catholic states and empires, the…
French Canada, pt. 2 -- Envisioning a Province, 1648-1688

June 26, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

We examine how French Canada and its indigenous allies weathered the apocalyptic disasters of the mid-1600s, giving shape in the process to a new, distinctly Canadian form of mystical and penitential piety. We trace how in the 1660s, the…
French Canada, pt. 1 -- Unlocking the Gates of the Continent, 1608-1648

June 14, 2026 · 2 hr 12 min

No other American colony projected such extensive power with so few people. We recount how the French explored the vast northern region they called “Canada” for decades in pursuit of furs and the Northwest Passage, but repeatedly failed to…
Unlocked: Italy: Nation-Building Struggles & the Entry Into World War I, 1861-1915

June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min

Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: We reconstruct the complex divisions and conflicts in Italian society as the new state sought to realize the Risorgimento’s unfulfilled promises of national unity and glory. We observe how the…
Excerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn

May 26, 2026 · 13 min

For patrons only for 1 year: We trace how the notion of the “industrial revolution” – originally a foreign, Continental idea rooted in German dialectical history – entered into British political discourse and then into sacred national…
Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 1: Conceiving a Catastrophe

May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

Dictionaries, textbooks, and encyclopedias routinely write in grave and solemn tones about the “industrial revolution” that reportedly “transformed” society, first in Britain and then in the rest of the globe, giving painful birth to the…
Virginia, pt. 2 -- A Dominion on Fire, 1646-1685

April 28, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

We consider Virginia’s tumultuous rise to wealth and prominence as the so-called “Old Dominion” and one of the largest European settler colonies in the world –from the colony’s dangerous stand in the English Civil War, through the…

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About the show

So much of what we learn in a standard history class, and in the culture around us, are just cliff-note narratives, crafted to explain how things appear, rather than how things actually came to be. Peel back the layers of time and place with this thoroughly researched, college-level history podcast with over 200 episodes that uncover the forgotten forces that shaped – and that are still shaping – our world today. There are no commercials in this long-form podcast. More information can be found at Historiansplaining.com, where you can hear Quick Samples of every episode, easily find related episodes based on topic, discover episodes by geographic location on a map of the world or on a timeline of world history, and much more. There’s so much to explore with historian Samuel Biagetti, PhD, in these conversational lectures and interviews, each one presenting hidden landscapes from the past that put the moments and movements of today’s world in a tangible, thought-provoking light. Press play for the joy of a great college-level course in history, without any of the homework! Unlock the most content by becoming a supporter through Patreon. You choose the amount you want to contribute, and your support helps keep the podcast commercial free! Visit patreon.com/user?u=5530632 Support through Patreon from listeners like you is the only source of ongoing funding for this podcast.