Episode Notes In April, The Camden County College Department of History and political Science Hosted a Community Lecture on the Situation in Ukraine in 2022. We discussed Russian and Soviet History, We discussed Ukrainian History since 1991, We discussed International Relations and International Institutions, and then I had the last topic "What Might Happen Next." This vid is that part of the lecture evening (expanded from its 18m original form). Unfortunately, the evening in its entirety was no...
Apr 11, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Episode Notes Baltic Wars: Scandinavia from 1520 - 1809 (and before and beyond) is a new season of Great Big History Podcast. In Baltic Wars we are going to talk about the Murders, the Wars, the Heroes, the Villains of North and Eastern Europe. In this episode we look at how a revolt in the South Eastern Ukraine sparked a larger war and then a Russian Invasion which set off Western intervention in the Baltic. We Look at the Time of Troubles, Poland-Lithuania's army, a genocide of Jewish settlers...
Apr 05, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Episode Notes Discussion of Christianity during the Roman Empire from the pre-Jesus conquest of Palestine by Pompey to the social commentary of Jesus to the radical Romanization of Paul to the Philosophical assimilation of Augustine's "City of God" with Platonic Philosophy. We even invent thought crimes, build a capital and destroy an Empire.
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Episode Notes The Three Stages of Disney Princesses // The Conservative Portrayal of Liberal Femininity // Race and Women and Disney Princesses // The Continual Success of American Women // Fight Club and American Men in Continual "Crisis" //
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Episode Notes The Suburbs, the Sixties, the Backlash, Religion, Re-Segregation, Economic Inequality, the End of the Welfare State, Racism, Sectionalism, Winning the Cold War, and the America you live in now.
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Episode Notes China occupied // Civil War // Mao's Great Leap Forward // Mao's Cultural Revolution // Starvation, Death, and independence from the West // Economic Modernization // The Square Incident // Wealth and political Conservatism
Sep 19, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Episode Notes Africa after World War 2 // The Trauma the Europeans leave behind // Apartheid Ends and Nelson Mandela teaches the World to Forgive // Europeans Sing Songs to "Save" Africans
Sep 19, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Episode Notes India gains Independence // Pakistan Gains Independence // Bangladesh gains Independence from Pakistan // Everyone Fights, Everyone's Traumatized, and then We Add Nukes // Hindu India leaves Islamic Pakistan Behind // There are wars in Afghanistan
Sep 19, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Episode Notes The Cold War Gets Hot // The West Grows Rich // The European East Falls Behind // Toilet paper explains the end of Soviet Communism // The US and USSR Fight Everywhere while Great Art and Music gets made under the Nuclear Threat // Genesis makes a Video // Peter Gabriel plays Games // RUSH wonders if it was worth it after the Berlin Wall Falls
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Episode Notes European Cinema Recovers After WW2 // The French Poverty // The British Bond Imperial Salvation // The Moody Scandinavian Intellectualism // Bollywood shows India can tell their Own Stories // Nollywood proves the world can make their own cinema and watch themselves on screen
Sep 19, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Episode Notes Disneyland and Entertaining Middle Class America // EPCOT brings the World to America // Disneyland Tokyo and the Success of Americanization // Disneyland Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Limits of Westernization
Sep 19, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Episode Notes What Can I say - We Murder 60 Million People this Episode, Industrialize Mass Racial Murder, and Nuke Two Cities // We Bomb Spain and Horrify Hemingway // We Show What Fascism Does to Fascists and the Poor People in the Way of Fascists // we Invent "Anti-Fascists" (like grandpa-pa) // We usher in the Nuclear Age with a Massive Collective World Trauma // China survives but the Chinese citizens are Terrorized // Japanese cities are burned to the ground // Even the Heroes do Terrible ...
Sep 19, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Episode Notes Fascism tries to Recreate the Traditional World and Bores Everyone (Even Goring) // Stalin Murders the Great Artists but Gets Lots of Graphic Design to Brag About Him // America has a Crisis of Dignity // Gangsters escape the Limits of the World and Fall to Earth // Escapism makes One Forget About Life for a While // Comic Books Save the World
Sep 19, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Episode Notes Conservatives flock to Fascism to Save them from Liberal Communism and Burn up the World with Hate // There's only Silly Hitler in this Episode // The Nazis are Hyper-Masculine, Women Hating and Surprisingly, well, Gay. // Scar from the Lion King Appears // Charlie Chaplin Dances with a Globe // Fascism tries to Control the Economy without Owning the Economy like Communists // America Inspires Europe with Eugenics, Segregation, and Conservative Violence
Sep 19, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Episode Notes The Communist Revolution in Russia // The Stalinist Destruction and Mass Murder // The Breaking of Society to Make a New World (and here's the thing - it works - it terribly, horribly, works) // The USSR Creates a Powerful State During the Great Depression
Sep 19, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Episode Notes The Great Depression Responses, Part 1: Killing Capitalism to Save it.
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Episode Notes How the Great Depression Happened // How Traditional Capitalism Died // And how it Traumatized the Anglo-American-European World and gave Birth to The Modern World
Sep 19, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Episode Notes The Conservative World tries to stop all the changes of the 1910s and 1920s - they win the Courts and pass some laws and loose the culture
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Episode Notes Women and the Right to Vote // African Americans invent the jazz age // Writers Write // The World is Terrible but its Also Awesome //
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Episode Notes Europeans murdered each other in staggering numbers and then there was a Plague
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Episode Notes Mary Poppins and Modern Major Generals show that 1910 is the Age of (sometimes old) Men // Young men are in Crisis // Women are Marching for Rights and Rioting in the Streets // Mrs. Pankhurst is Clad in Irons Again // the World is Young and Full of Promise // The World is Old, Decadent, and Dying.
Sep 18, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Episode Notes Opium Wars and Revolutions in China // Indian Empires Collapse, fight Back, and lose // Africa goes from Rich to Exploited // Japan Industrializes to Avoid the World's Fate // Europe gets Rich // Cultures Die
Sep 18, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Episode Notes Industrialization makes people rich, makes others poor, exploits workers, gives people more stuff than ever and creates a Backlash, Romantics, and Environmentalists
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Episode Notes The US has a Conservative Revolution // The French have a Conservative and then Radical Revolution and then an Imperial Dictatorship // Haiti frees the Slaves // The Enlightenment succeeds and fails
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Episode Notes Sweden invents the New Legions // Europe discovers how to raise gunpowder armies and, sometimes, pay them //
Sep 09, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Episode Notes Descartes invents the person // Hobbes thinks Hell is Other People // Locke tells us we're all great and then we have to live together // Rousseau thinks we are born free but live in chains
Sep 09, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Episode Notes Science as Reaction to the Trauma of the Reformation // Galileo proves "it Still Moves" // New Technologies disprove Aristotle // Blood is a Solid? Yeah, Kind of. // Newton ruins College with Calculus but Proves God Exists
Sep 09, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Episode Notes Martin Luther has 99 problems and the Pope is Definitely 1 // War, Torture, Secret Police, Jesuits, Sweden, Spain, and How do we all Get into Heaven now? // The Catholic Church Unleashes Michelangelo
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Episode Notes Disease, Death, Terrorism, and Market Capitalism or How Europeans Justified Slavery with Massive Amounts of Money
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Episode Notes Europeans Leave Europe, Get Rich, and Change Everything Around the World www.christophergennari.com
Sep 08, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 6
