April 12, 2019
Our European history is going to start around 1500 with the Renaissance, but believe it or not, that is not the actual beginning o...Read more
April 19, 2019
The Renaissance was a cultural revitalization that spread across Europe, and had repercussions across the globe, but one smallish ...Read more
April 26, 2019
The European Renaissance may have started in Florence, but it pretty quickly moved out of Italy and spread the art, architecture, ...Read more
May 3, 2019
The thing about European History is that it tends to leak out of Europe. Europeans haven't been great at staying put in Europe. As...Read more
May 11, 2019
European exploration had a lot of side effects. When the Old World and the New World began to interact, people, wealth, food, anim...Read more
May 18, 2019
You may have noticed that the internet is terrible at religious discourse. Well, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early 16th c...Read more
May 26, 2019
The Protestant Reformation didn't exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn't end with him either. Reformers and monarchs chan...Read more
June 2, 2019
We've been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let's take a momen...Read more
June 7, 2019
When the Protestant Reformation broke out in Western Europe, the Catholic Church got the message, at least a little bit. Pope Paul...Read more
June 22, 2019
During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, an...Read more
June 29, 2019
The 17th Century in Europe was pretty rough in a lot of ways. The Thirty Years War involved a lot of countries, and a lot of battl...Read more
July 14, 2019
There was a lot of bad stuff going on in Europe in the 17th century. We've seen wars, plagues, and unrest of all types. But, there...Read more
July 27, 2019
So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it. The moment th...Read more
August 6, 2019
The English Civil War. We'll talk about England after Elizabeth, in which things didn't go that smoothly. We'll talk about James I...Read more
August 13, 2019
While the English were falling apart a little, with their civil war and their restoration and their succession problems, the Dutch...Read more
August 19, 2019
While the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at...Read more
August 27, 2019
In eastern Europe, in the 17th century a couple of "great powers" were coming into their own. The vast empire of Russia was modern...Read more
September 9, 2019
So far in this series, we've covered a lot of war, disease, climate disaster, and some more war. Well, prepare yourself for someth...Read more
September 16, 2019
Last time we learned about the Enlightenment, and the philosophers and thinkers whose ideas would shape governance for hundred of ...Read more
September 24, 2019
European powers had a lot of wars in the 18th century, and they weren't confined to Europe. Conflict raged across the globe, in wh...Read more
October 8, 2019
In 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking...Read more
October 21, 2019
We try not to get into too much great man history here at Crash Course, but we have to admit: Napoleon Bonaparte is a pretty big d...Read more
October 29, 2019
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across t...Read more
November 5, 2019
We've talked about a lot of revolutions in 19th Century Europe, and today we're moving on to a less warlike revolution, the Indust...Read more
November 12, 2019
In the aftermath of the revolutions and upheaval in 18th and early 19th century Europe, there was a hunger for reform across the c...Read more
November 19, 2019
In 1848, Europe experienced a wave of revolutions. Last week we covered some of the reform movements that presaged these uprisings...Read more
November 26, 2019
So, we haven't talked much about Italy and Germany so far in Crash Course Euro, and that's because prior to the mid-19th century, ...Read more
December 3, 2019
In 19th century Europe, with nation building well under way, thoughts turned outward, toward empire. This week, we're looking at h...Read more
December 10, 2019
Between 1840 and 1914, an estimated 40 million people left Europe. This is one of the most significant migrations in human history...Read more
December 17, 2019
So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the...Read more
January 8, 2020
Europe was in transition politically and culturally at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, we're looking at the dawn of mode...Read more
January 16, 2020
Much has been written about what exactly caused World War I. As befits a true global war, the reality is that there isn't a single...Read more
January 23, 2020
Europe's system of alliances and centuries-old tensions erupted into war in August of 1914. This week on Crash Course Euro, we're ...Read more
January 29, 2020
World War I was a total war for millions of people in Europe. Many men were enlisted in the fighting, but the war work had implica...Read more
February 13, 2020
World War I was very hard on the Russian Empire. So hard, in fact, that it led to the end of the Russian Empire. As the global con...Read more
February 25, 2020
In which John Green looks at Europe's attempts to recover from the devastation of World War I and forge a lasting peace. The peace...Read more
March 5, 2020
We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of m...Read more
March 17, 2020
Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigg...Read more
March 31, 2020
Our look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at...Read more
April 10, 2020
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of th...Read more
April 21, 2020
Sometimes, friendship isn't forever. At the conclusion of World War II, the old structures of power were a shambles. The tradition...Read more
May 5, 2020
At the end of World War II, the nations of Europe were a shambles. Today we'll learn about how the various countries and blocs app...Read more
May 19, 2020
After World War II, Europe was changing radically, and its place in the world was changing as well. European powers had colonized ...Read more
June 1, 2020
In the decades following World War II, life changed in many ways, and a fair number of those changes were for the better. Many of ...Read more
June 20, 2020
The post-World War II decades in Europe are sometimes called the Thirty Glorious Years. As those years wore on, tensions between E...Read more
June 30, 2020
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having...Read more
July 16, 2020
The aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact had a huge impact on the countries of Eastern Europe. As the...Read more
July 30, 2020
In which John looks at what it even means to live in a global age, as we've been talking about Europe's role in the gobal communit...Read more
August 14, 2020
The 21st century brought a whole new host of challenges to the world, and Europe was no exception. In this video you'll learn abou...Read more
August 28, 2020
At the end of our journey through modern European history, we're taking an episode to look back at how the practice of history dev...Read more