January 26, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to becom...Read more
February 2, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the largest of the ancient civilizations. John teaches...Read more
February 9, 2012 • 12m
In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent.
February 16, 2012 • 12m
In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of int...Read more
February 23, 2012 • 12m
In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawn...Read more
March 1, 2012 • 12m
In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Budd...Read more
March 8, 2012 • 12m
In which John introduces you to quite a lot of Chinese history by discussing the complicated relationship between the Confucian sc...Read more
March 15, 2012 • 12m
In which you are introduced to the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great, his empire, his horse Bucephalus, the empires ...Read more
March 22, 2012 • 12m
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: In which John Green teaches you about the so-called Silk Road, a network of trade routes where go...Read more
March 29, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green explores exactly when Rome went from being the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Here's a hint: it had somet...Read more
April 5, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, rig...Read more
April 12, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the fall of the Roman Empire, which happened considerably later than you may have been told....Read more
April 19, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you the history of Islam, including the revelation of the Qu'ran to Muhammad, the five pillars of Isla...Read more
April 26, 2012 • 12m
John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to bel...Read more
May 3, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our tradit...Read more
May 10, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade...Read more
May 17, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you, at long last, about the most exceptional bunch of empire-building nomads in the history of the wo...Read more
May 24, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you the history of the Indian Ocean Trade. John weaves a tale of swashbuckling adventure, replete with...Read more
May 31, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green discusses the strange and mutually beneficial relationship between a republic, the citystate of Venice, and an...Read more
June 7, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you how Russia evolved from a loose amalgamation of medieval principalities known as the Kievan Rus in...Read more
June 14, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the beginning of the so-called Age of Discovery. You've probably heard of Christopher Columb...Read more
June 21, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, ...Read more
June 28, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the changes wrought by contact between the Old World and the New. John does this by explorin...Read more
July 5, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slaver...Read more
July 12, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, tha...Read more
July 19, 2012 • 12m
In which John teaches you about the Seven Years War, which may have lasted nine years. Or as many as 23. It was a very confusing w...Read more
July 26, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the life and death of one of history's great explorers, Captain James Cook of the British Na...Read more
August 2, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two diff...Read more
August 10, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the...Read more
August 16, 2012 • 12m
Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolution...Read more
August 23, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin Am...Read more
August 30, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial ...Read more
September 6, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about capitalism and socialism in a way that is sure to please commenters from both sides of the d...Read more
September 13, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world ca...Read more
September 20, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about European Imperialism in the 19th century. European powers started to create colonial empires...Read more
September 27, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for ...Read more
October 4, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, Chin...Read more
October 11, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about World War II, aka The Great Patriotic War, aka The Big One. So how did this war happen? And ...Read more
October 18, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was cool. In the sense of its t...Read more
October 25, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the post-World War II breakup of most of the European empires. As you'll remember from previ...Read more
November 2, 2012 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about globalization, a subject so epic, so, um, global, it requires two videos. In this video, Joh...Read more
November 9, 2012 • 12m
In which John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth,...Read more