S3:E1 – BALTIC WARS! Scandinavia and Baltic 1520-1809
1648 - Revolt in the Ukraine Starts Wars Everywhere
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.
S2:E33 – Roman Christianity (Bonus Episode)
From Jesus to Paul to Constantine to Augustine: We Create a Faith and Destroy an Empire
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.
S2:E32 – Disney Princesses and American Feminism + Fight Club and American Masculinity
The Evolving Princess Feminism and the Perpetual Crisis of American Men
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" //
S2:E31 – American Conservatism - From Wilderness to Dominance
How America became Conservative and what it Meant for the World
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.
S2:E30 – China After World War II - Disaster, Death, Recovery, Success
The Trauma of Chinese People From Occupation to Wealth
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
S2:E29 – Africa, Decolonization, Apartheid, Disaster and Recovery
The Search for Dignity
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
S2:E28 – South Asia Partition, War and Recovery
The British End their Raj and the Subcontinent's Been at War Ever Since
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
S2:E27 – Cold War Kids: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
The US and USSR Divide the World and Nearly End it - and everyone Wants Soft Toilet Paper
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
S2:E26 – World Cinema After World War II
How Cinema Explains World Culture From French New Wave to Nollywood
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
S2:E25 – Disneylands and Entertaining the World's Middle Class
How Disneyland, Disney World, EPCOT, and Disney Parks Explain the World
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