Extra History

Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora

Europe: The First Crusade

Korea: Admiral Yi

Middle East: Odenathus

England: The Broad Street Pump

Mary Seacole

World War II: The Battle of Kursk

Suleiman the Magnificent

WWII: The Resource War

Early Christian Schisms

The History of Writing

Samuel HaNagid

First Opium War

Urbino

Lindisfarne

The Brothers Gracchi

Hiawatha

The History of Paper Money

Veterans Day

Simón Bolívar

Catherine the Great

Ned Kelly

Mary Anning

The Articles of Confederation

Hunting the Bismarck

Kamehameha the Great

D-Day

The Bronze Age Collapse

Saragarhi

Great Northern War

The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire

Otto von Bismarck

Berlin Airlift

Khosrau Anushirawan

WW1 Christmas Truce

Cheng I Sao

Cuban Missile Crisis

Genghis Khan

The Danelaw

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

The Empire of Mali

The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry

Thermopylae

1918 Flu Pandemic

Pellagra

Kingdom of Majapahit

Battle of Saipan

Quantum Computing

Julie d'Aubigny

Viking Expansion

Defense of Poland

Sun Yat-sen

Tuberculosis

Jane Austen

Irish Potato Famine

The Boston Massacre

Siege of Vienna

Queen Nzinga

U.S. Civil War

The Three Kingdoms

History of England

Joan of Arc

The Warsaw Uprising

Hogs in History

The Inca Empire

History of Dentistry

Charles Darwin

Building Angkor

History of Space Travel

The Berlin Wall

Akhenaten

Policing London

History of Vaccines

Allan Pinkerton

The Haitian Revolution

Ibn Battuta

Rasputin

The 1929 Stock Market Crash

Dividing the Middle East

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

The Sacred Band

Exploring the Pacific

The Burning of Black Wall Street

Marie Antoinette

The Trojan War

Rome & The Third Century Crisis

Syphilis

The Harlem Hellfighters

Bartolomé de las Casas

Cleopatra

Voting in America

The Beast of Gévaudan

The Harlem Renaissance

End of the Samurai

The Polio Epidemic

Francis Walsingham

Saladin & the 3rd Crusade

Black Boxing Heavyweights

Redlining

Crusader States Craziness

Interstate Displacement

Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster

Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation

The Assassination of Medgar Evers

Jewish Pirates

Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge

Climbing the Matterhorn

Thirty Years' War

Negro League Baseball

The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair

Vlad the Impaler

History of Coffee

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

Grigori Rasputin

Marcus Garvey

The Great Emu War

Conquest of India

The Discovery of Insulin

The Cotton Gin

Japanese Militarism

Götz of the Iron Hand

The Zimmermann Telegram

Empire of Brazil

Maya Angelou

Mary Toft

History of Beer

Great Disappointment

New England Vampire Panic

Tulip Mania

Carlisle Boarding School

Billie Holiday vs The US Government

Ethiopian Empire

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Battle of Blair Mountain

The Irish Easter Rising

The Battle of Culloden

The Path to Pearl Harbor

Christmas Chaos at West Point

Frederick the Great

The Real Red Wedding

Operation Avalanche

John Brown

The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime

Napoleon in Egypt

A Race to Ancient Secrets

The Mass-Murdering Mongoose

The Crimean War

The Buddhist Expansion

Henry Ford

Ramesses the Great

The Little Ice Age

The Draft Riots of 1863

Shootout at the OK Corral

The Dodo Bird

The REAL War on Christmas

Wu Zetian

The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable

Pigs

Sitting Bull

Jim Thorpe

John L. Sullivan

Secret Societies

The Great Locomotive Chase

Hypatia of Alexandria

The Dark History of the Panama Railroad

Eager to join the California Gold Rush, you choose the 40-day steamship route through Panama over the grueling overland journey. But Panama's jungles, lethal diseases, and treacherous terrain await. Enter William H. Aspinwall, a visionary shipping magnate, who aims to revolutionize this journey with the Panama Railroad. Discover the harrowing tale of its construction, the immense human cost, and how it transformed travel and trade forever.

History of the Board Game

Join us as we delve into the history of board games, from ancient times to the Victorian era's moral games like The Mansion of Happiness, and discover how George B. Parker's vision transformed games into the entertainment products we know today. Learn about his journey from a young innovator to the founder of Parker Brothers, a company that would shape the future of gaming.

Invasion of Quebec

Dive into the backstory of early American military efforts, the rivalry between Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, and the critical impact of the Seven Years' War on the American Revolution. A blend of success and chaos that defined America’s first military disaster and the near-miraculous campaign that followed in the Invasion of Quebec, the American Disaster.

The Calendar's 10,000 Year History

Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an intervention! Resulting in the creation of the Gregorian calendar we use today.

Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold's aggressive leadership at Saratoga nearly earns him a hero's death, but instead, it leads him to a path of pain and betrayal. As a once revered Continental Army leader, his appointment as Philadelphia's military governor exposes him to corruption, extravagant living, and the allure of Peggy Shippen, a Loyalist's daughter. Now he's accused of corruption and Arnold's dreams begin to unravel and he betrays the country he fought for by contacting British spy Major John André through his wife, Peggy.