The Civilizations Series is the world history course your university never offered, because they couldn’t fit it all in a single course.
The creation of an alliance between retired history teacher Dave Power and anti-imperialist writer Justin Podur, we cover everything covered in a Modern Western Civilization history class (around 1st year university level), but add in all the colonialism and imperialism that’s usually left out.
Some of the transcripts of these podcasts have been turned into books: we’ve de-activated the store temporarily but we’ll come back with a bang.
Here’s the syllabus and notes on sources, for this imagined 60-week course with lectures varying from 45-minutes to 3 hours!
As we reached the end of the 19th Century, Dave Power and I came to the conclusion that the Scramble for Africa, as the momentous event bridging the 19th and 20th centuries, deserved its own series. We’d imagined it as being 5 parts, but by the end it turned out to be about 29 episodes!
Our third historical series is on the First World War, its causes, the war itself, and its consequences. It will be followed with Civ Interwar and World War 2 Civ.