July 11, 2014 • 13m
In which John Green returns to teaching World History! This week, we'll be talking about the idea of civilization, some of the tra...Read more
July 17, 2014 • 14m
In which John Green teaches about filthy, filthy lucre. Money. And Debt. So, what is money? And what is it for? And why do we use ...Read more
July 24, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about disease and the effects that disease has had in human history. Disease has been with man sin...Read more
July 31, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you about war! Specifically, John talks about whether humanity is naturally warlike, hard-wired to kil...Read more
August 9, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing ...Read more
August 21, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the...Read more
August 28, 2014 • 7m
In which Stan Muller subs for John Green and teaches you about energy and humanity. Today we discuss the ideas put forth by Alfred...Read more
September 5, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you a little bit about drought, which is a natural weather phenomenon, and famine, which is almost alw...Read more
September 12, 2014 • 9m
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but ...Read more
September 20, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign ...Read more
October 3, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the Bronze Age civilization in what we today call the middle east, and how the vast, interco...Read more
October 17, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green talks about the methods of writing history by looking at some of the ways that history has been written about ...Read more
October 24, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism, but not from the perspective of the colonizers. This week John looks at some As...Read more
November 1, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about railroads and some of the ways they changed the world, and how they were a sort of microcosm...Read more
November 7, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about population. So, how many people can reasonably live on the Earth? Thomas Malthus got it tota...Read more
November 14, 2014 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about how Islam has interacted with politics during its history, and how it continues to do so tod...Read more
November 21, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about the Mughal Empire, which ruled large swaths of the Indian Sub-Continent from 1526 to (techni...Read more
November 29, 2014 • 15m
In which John Green teaches you about the Protestant Reformation. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, pretty much everyone in Eur...Read more
December 5, 2014 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about the Holy Roman Empire by teaching you about Charles V.
December 14, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about World War II, and some of the causes behind the war. In a lot of ways, WWII was about resour...Read more
January 16, 2015 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which used to be Zaire, which used to be The Belgian C...Read more
January 21, 2015 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about water! So, we talk about resources a lot on Crash Course, and today is no exception. It turn...Read more
January 28, 2015 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going ...Read more
February 4, 2015 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash ...Read more
February 11, 2015 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about nation-building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America ge...Read more
February 26, 2015 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about Iran's Revolutions. Yes, revolutions plural. What was the the1979 Iranian Revolution about? ...Read more
March 4, 2015 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy...in Japan. The Heian ...Read more
March 13, 2015 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace mo...Read more
March 18, 2015 • 15m
In which John Green teaches you about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, doing business as the VOC, also known as the Dutch Ea...Read more
April 4, 2015 • 15m
In which John Green teaches you about the end of World History, and the end of the world as we know it, kind of. For the last hund...Read more