World History

From the thundering cavalry of Alexander the Great to the streets of New York during the Great Manure Crisis of 1894, horses have shaped the grand arc of history and our everyday lives.

Today we’ll talk with Christopher Cokinos about his book Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.

Long before Julius Caesar became one of the most powerful rulers in the world, he was a relatively unknown curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome on the Tyrrhenian Coast to the Salento Peninsula on the Adriatic Sea. Our guest John Keahey traversed the Via Appia, and he joins us to talk about it.

On this episode we discuss Darrell Hartman’s new book Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons. He joins us for the hour as we talk about North Pole Explorers, the Making of Modern Media, fake news and more.

Our guest is Naoíse Mac Sweeney, professor of classical archaeology at the University of Vienna. She joins us to talk about her new book The West, debunking the myths and origin stories that underpin the history we thought we knew.

The 2023 Bennion Teachers’ Workshop at USU will center on the theme: Athenian Democracy and its Legacy: Learning Lessons on Self Governance from the Ancients. On this episdoe we're joined by keynote speaker Professor Darryl Phillips, as well as Susan Shapiro and Julia Gossard

"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced…

"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced…