Release Date

06 Sep, 2013

Total Episode/Season

504/174

Synopsis

Videos of an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. The team creates short-form animated video essays every week about world history.

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Rome: The Punic Wars

06 Sep, 2013

World War I: The Seminal Tragedy

30 Aug, 2014

Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai

08 Nov, 2014

England: South Sea Bubble

28 Feb, 2015

Zulu Empire

16 May, 2015

Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora

20 Jun, 2015

Europe: The First Crusade

08 Aug, 2015

Korea: Admiral Yi

26 Sep, 2015

Middle East: Odenathus

31 Oct, 2015

England: The Broad Street Pump

14 Nov, 2015

Mary Seacole

09 Jan, 2016

World War II: The Battle of Kursk

15 Feb, 2016

Suleiman the Magnificent

12 Mar, 2016

WWII: The Resource War

05 Apr, 2016

Early Christian Schisms

30 Apr, 2016

The History of Writing

04 Jun, 2016

Samuel HaNagid

11 Jun, 2016

First Opium War

18 Jun, 2016

Urbino

16 Jul, 2016

Lindisfarne

30 Jul, 2016

The Brothers Gracchi

06 Aug, 2016

Hiawatha

25 Aug, 2016

The History of Paper Money

01 Oct, 2016

Veterans Day

11 Nov, 2016

Simón Bolívar

19 Nov, 2016

Catherine the Great

28 Jan, 2017

Ned Kelly

18 Mar, 2017

Mary Anning

22 Apr, 2017

The Articles of Confederation

06 May, 2017

Hunting the Bismarck

11 May, 2017

Kamehameha the Great

03 Jun, 2017

D-Day

06 Jun, 2017

The Bronze Age Collapse

24 Jun, 2017

Saragarhi

05 Aug, 2017

Great Northern War

19 Aug, 2017

The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire

30 Sep, 2017

Otto von Bismarck

13 Oct, 2017

Berlin Airlift

07 Dec, 2017

Khosrau Anushirawan

09 Dec, 2017

WW1 Christmas Truce

17 Dec, 2017

Cheng I Sao

27 Jan, 2018

Cuban Missile Crisis

15 Feb, 2018

Genghis Khan

17 Feb, 2018

The Danelaw

05 Apr, 2018

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

07 Apr, 2018

The Empire of Mali

14 Apr, 2018

The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry

26 May, 2018

Thermopylae

07 Jun, 2018

1918 Flu Pandemic

07 Jul, 2018

Pellagra

26 Jul, 2018

Kingdom of Majapahit

25 Aug, 2018

Battle of Saipan

06 Sep, 2018

Quantum Computing

16 Sep, 2018

Julie d'Aubigny

13 Oct, 2018

Viking Expansion

27 Oct, 2018

Defense of Poland

22 Nov, 2018

Sun Yat-sen

15 Dec, 2018

Tuberculosis

31 Jan, 2019

Jane Austen

02 Feb, 2019

Irish Potato Famine

16 Feb, 2019

The Boston Massacre

23 Mar, 2019

Siege of Vienna

06 Apr, 2019

Queen Nzinga

27 Apr, 2018

U.S. Civil War

11 May, 2019

The Three Kingdoms

09 May, 2019

History of England

25 May, 2019

Joan of Arc

06 Jul, 2019

The Warsaw Uprising

01 Aug, 2019

Hogs in History

10 Aug, 2019

The Inca Empire

24 Aug, 2019

History of Dentistry

19 Sep, 2019

Charles Darwin

28 Sep, 2019

Building Angkor

12 Oct, 2019

History of Space Travel

31 Oct, 2019

The Berlin Wall

09 Nov, 2019

Akhenaten

16 Nov, 2019

Policing London

30 Nov, 2019

History of Vaccines

19 Dec, 2019

Allan Pinkerton

04 Jan, 2020

The Haitian Revolution

18 Jan, 2020

Ibn Battuta

07 Mar, 2020

Rasputin

01 Apr, 2020

The 1929 Stock Market Crash

25 Apr, 2020

Dividing the Middle East

02 May, 2020

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

28 May, 2020

The Sacred Band

06 Jun, 2020

Exploring the Pacific

20 Jun, 2020

The Burning of Black Wall Street

03 Jul, 2020

Marie Antoinette

25 Jul, 2020

The Trojan War

30 Jul, 2020

Rome & The Third Century Crisis

08 Aug, 2020

Syphilis

27 Aug, 2020

The Harlem Hellfighters

10 Sep, 2020

Bartolomé de las Casas

12 Sep, 2020

Cleopatra

26 Sep, 2020

Voting in America

27 Oct, 2020

The Beast of Gévaudan

30 Oct, 2020

The Harlem Renaissance

12 Nov, 2020

End of the Samurai

14 Nov, 2020

The Polio Epidemic

19 Nov, 2020

Francis Walsingham

19 Dec, 2020

Saladin & the 3rd Crusade

02 Jan, 2021

Black Boxing Heavyweights

28 Jan, 2021

Redlining

04 Feb, 2021

Crusader States Craziness

06 Feb, 2021

Interstate Displacement

18 Feb, 2021

Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster

20 Feb, 2021

Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation

04 Mar, 2021

The Assassination of Medgar Evers

27 Mar, 2021

Jewish Pirates

10 Apr, 2021

Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge

29 Apr, 2021

Climbing the Matterhorn

08 May, 2021

Thirty Years' War

29 May, 2021

Negro League Baseball

03 Jun, 2021

The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair

03 Jul, 2021

Vlad the Impaler

17 Jul, 2021

History of Coffee

12 Aug, 2021

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

21 Aug, 2021

Grigori Rasputin

04 Sep, 2021

Marcus Garvey

16 Sep, 2021

The Great Emu War

02 Oct, 2021

Conquest of India

23 Oct, 2021

The Discovery of Insulin

11 Nov, 2021

The Cotton Gin

27 Nov, 2021

Japanese Militarism

11 Dec, 2021

Götz of the Iron Hand

30 Dec, 2021

The Zimmermann Telegram

11 Jan, 2022

Empire of Brazil

29 Jan, 2022

Maya Angelou

Mary Toft

05 Mar, 2022

History of Beer

19 Mar, 2022

Great Disappointment

23 Apr, 2022

New England Vampire Panic

28 Apr, 2022

Tulip Mania

07 May, 2022

Carlisle Boarding School

03 Jun, 2022

Billie Holiday vs The US Government

11 Jun, 2022

Ethiopian Empire

25 Jun, 2022

Eleanor of Aquitaine

20 Aug, 2022

Battle of Blair Mountain

17 Sep, 2022

The Irish Easter Rising

09 Oct, 2022

The Battle of Culloden

12 Nov, 2022

The Path to Pearl Harbor

21 Nov, 2022

Christmas Chaos at West Point

12 Dec, 2022

Frederick the Great

14 Jan, 2023

The Real Red Wedding

18 Feb, 2023

Operation Avalanche

23 Feb, 2023

John Brown

04 Mar, 2023

The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime

08 Apr, 2023

Napoleon in Egypt

22 Apr, 2023

A Race to Ancient Secrets

27 May, 2023

The Mass-Murdering Mongoose

01 Jun, 2023

The Crimean War

10 Jun, 2023

The Buddhist Expansion

29 Jul, 2023

Henry Ford

16 Sep, 2023

Ramesses the Great

05 Oct, 2023

The Little Ice Age

04 Nov, 2023

The Draft Riots of 1863

14 Oct, 2023

Shootout at the OK Corral

02 Dec, 2023

The Dodo Bird

14 Dec, 2023

The REAL War on Christmas

23 Dec, 2023

Wu Zetian

30 Dec, 2023

The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable

03 Feb, 2024

Pigs

07 Feb, 2024

Sitting Bull

17 Feb, 2024

Jim Thorpe

16 Mar, 2024

John L. Sullivan

23 Mar, 2024

Secret Societies

06 Apr, 2024

The Great Locomotive Chase

11 May, 2024

Hypatia of Alexandria

25 May, 2024

The Dark History of the Panama Railroad

22 Jun, 2024

Eager to join the California Gold Rush, you choose the 40-day steamship route through Panama over the grueling overland journey. But Panama's jungles, lethal diseases, and treacherous terrain await. Enter William H. Aspinwall, a visionary shipping magnate, who aims to revolutionize this journey with the Panama Railroad. Discover the harrowing tale of its construction, the immense human cost, and how it transformed travel and trade forever.

History of the Board Game

29 Jun, 2024

Join us as we delve into the history of board games, from ancient times to the Victorian era's moral games like The Mansion of Happiness, and discover how George B. Parker's vision transformed games into the entertainment products we know today. Learn about his journey from a young innovator to the founder of Parker Brothers, a company that would shape the future of gaming.

Invasion of Quebec

13 Jul, 2024

Dive into the backstory of early American military efforts, the rivalry between Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, and the critical impact of the Seven Years' War on the American Revolution. A blend of success and chaos that defined America’s first military disaster and the near-miraculous campaign that followed in the Invasion of Quebec, the American Disaster.

The Calendar's 10,000 Year History

16 Jul, 2024

Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an intervention! Resulting in the creation of the Gregorian calendar we use today.

Benedict Arnold

10 Aug, 2024

Benedict Arnold's aggressive leadership at Saratoga nearly earns him a hero's death, but instead, it leads him to a path of pain and betrayal. As a once revered Continental Army leader, his appointment as Philadelphia's military governor exposes him to corruption, extravagant living, and the allure of Peggy Shippen, a Loyalist's daughter. Now he's accused of corruption and Arnold's dreams begin to unravel and he betrays the country he fought for by contacting British spy Major John André through his wife, Peggy.

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