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History Chats with Dr. S.
Content for university level students seeking information about specific undergraduate and graduate level topics.
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- History Chats with Dr. S.
S05E01: (BUSA3340, Wk1): Before You Finish Your Coffee — The World in Your Morning (Globalization Intro)
California Baptist University BUSA3340 (Week 1) Title: Before You Finish Your Coffee — The World in Your Morning Description: Before you’ve finished your first…
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S03E11: HUM213 Wk7: The Contest of 1401: How Losing Built the Renaissance (Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, & Black Death)
Title: The Contest of 1401: How Losing Built the Renaissance Description: In 1401, plague-weary Florence held a competition for new bronze doors on its…
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S04E09: HUM223 Wk7: Lights All Askew: The Eclipse That Unsettled the Modern Mind (Dali, Newton, Einstein & More)
Title: Lights All Askew: The Eclipse That Unsettled the Modern Mind (Dali, Newton, Einstein & More) Description: On May 29, 1919, a Quaker astronomer stood on…
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S03E10: HUM213 Wk 6 The Cowherd Who Couldn't Sing: Beowulf, Caedmon, and the Song in the Dark
Title: HUM 213 Week 6 – The Cowherd Who Couldn't Sing: Beowulf, Caedmon, and the Song in the Dark Description: A shy cowherd slips out of a feast so no one…
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S04E08: HUM 223 Week 6 – Two Manifestos and a Willing Slave: 1848, Marx, Mill, and the Fight Over Who Gets to Be Free
Title HUM 223 Week 6 – Two Manifestos and a Willing Slave: 1848, Marx, Mill, and the Fight Over Who Gets to Be Free Description In 1848, two manifestos…
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S04E07: HUM223 Wk5: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee? William Blake vs. the Clockwork Universe
Episode Title HUM 223: Week 5Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee? William Blake vs. the Clockwork UniverseEpisode DescriptionAs a boy, William Blake swore he…
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S03E09: HUM213 Wk 5: Why Do We Call It July and August? Caesar, Christ, and the Rise of Rome
Title: HUM213 Week 5 – Why Do We Call It July and August? Caesar, Christ, and the Rise of Rome Description: Why do we call it July and August? The answer takes…
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S04E06: HUM 223 Wk4: The Man in the Bathtub: David, Marat, and the Revolution's Search for a Savior
EPISODE TITLE The Man in the Bathtub: David, Marat, and the Revolution's Search for a Savior DESCRIPTION July 13, 1793. A young woman with a kitchen knife…
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S03E08: HUM 213 Week 4 (Islam & Timothy): The Patriarch and the Caliph: A Two-Day Debate in Baghdad (AD 781)
Episode Title: HUM 213 Week 4 (Islam & Timothy): The Patriarch and the Caliph: A Two-Day Debate in Baghdad (AD 781) Episode Description:It’s about the year…
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S04E05: HUM 223 Wk 3: Are Kings Gods? (Louis XIV, Lex, Rex, The Enlightenment, John Locke, & More)
Title: S04E05: HUM 223 Wk 3: Are Kings Gods? (Louis XIV, Lex, Rex, The Enlightenment, John Locke, & More) Description: A French bishop tells Louis XIV he’s a…
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S03E07: HUM 213 Week 3: The Hero Who Learned to Endure
Title: HUM 213 Week 3: The Hero Who Learned to Endure Description:Achilles has to choose between a long, forgettable life and a glory that never dies. A…
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S03E05: HUM213 Wk2: Cortés, Aztecs, & the Spanish Conquest: How He Called It Greater Than Seville..Then He Destroyed It
Link to Cortes' Letters (all of them) TITLE S03E05: HUM213 Wk2: Cortés, Aztecs, & the Spanish Conquest: How He Called It Greater Than Seville..Then He…
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S04E04: HUM223 Wk2 - The Sun and the Psalm: Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104
Episode Title: The Sun and the Psalm: Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104 Description: Around 1350 BC an Egyptian pharaoh tore down a thousand years of…
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S04E03: HUM223 Wk2: Sewn Into the Coat: The Baroque and the Scientific Revolution
Episode Title: Sewn Into the Coat: The Baroque and the Scientific Revolution Description: A servant sorting a dead man's laundry finds a parchment stitched…
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S03E06: HUM213 Wk2 Water Under the Sand: Ancient Africa and the Ancient Americas
Episode Title: Water Under the Sand: Ancient Africa and the Ancient Americas Description: A thousand miles of hand-dug tunnels beneath the Sahara. A pyramid in…
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S04E02: HUM 223 (Wk1): When Beauty Becomes an Argument: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
EPISODE TITLE When Beauty Becomes an Argument: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque EPISODE DESCRIPTION In 1527, an army sacked Rome and someone scratched…
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S04E01: HUM 223 (Wk1): Jan van Eyck Was Here: Mirrors, Manuscripts, and the Reformation
HUM 223 - Week 1 EPISODE TITLE Jan van Eyck Was Here: Mirrors, Manuscripts, and the Reformation EPISODE DESCRIPTION A painter hides himself in a mirror. A…
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S03E04: Written in Mud: Mesopotamia, Scripture, and the Birth of Civilization
Humanities I : Week 1, Episode 4 Description History begins in mud—with a reed, a clay tablet, and a receipt for barley. In this episode, we travel through…
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S03E03: Into the Dark: The Stone Age, from the Painted Caves to the First Temple
Humanities 213: Week 1, Episode 3 Title: Into the Dark: The Stone Age, from the Painted Caves to the First Temple Description Twenty-six thousand years ago, a…
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S03E02: Welcome to Humanities I: Stored Sunlight: Surplus, Writing, and the Rise of Civilization
Humanities I (213): Week 1 EPISODE TITLE Stored Sunlight: Surplus, Writing, and the Rise of Civilization EPISODE DESCRIPTION Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows…
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S01E12: The Wall and the Desert, Part 2 (of 2) The Man in the Shadow: Bush, Berlin, and the Gulf War
Episode Title: The Wall and the Desert, Part II — The Man in the Shadow: Bush, Berlin, and the Gulf War Episode Description: For eight years, George H. W. Bush…
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S01E11: The Wall and the Desert, Part 1 (of 2)— Reagan’s Revolution: Morning in America and the Last Cold War
HIS 223 (Week 8) Episode Title: The Wall and the Desert, Part 2 — Reagan’s Revolution: Morning in America and the Last Cold War Episode Description: When…
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S01E10: The Bomb and the Bus — Ike, Kennedy, and the American 1950s
HIS 223 - Week 7 (Part II) Episode Title: The Bomb and the Bus — Ike, Kennedy, and the American 1950s Episode Description: Two presidents, two fires. From “I…
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S01E09: The War Nobody Declared — Vietnam (1964–1975)
HIS 223 (Week 7) Episode Title The War Nobody Declared — Vietnam, 1964–1975 Episode Description The United States fought its longest war to that point without…
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S01E08: The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the System
HIS 223 (Week 6) Episode Title: The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the…
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S01E08: Cold War, Warm Ink: Containment, an Airlift, an Upset Election, a War at the 38th Parallel — and the Pen Everyone Gets Wrong
HIS 223: Week 6 Episode Title: Cold War, Warm Ink: Containment, an Airlift, an Upset Election, a War at the 38th Parallel — and the Pen Everyone Gets Wrong…
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S03E01: HUM 213: Welcome & Intro
Episode Title: Opening Note — Where I Am Standing Full Description:Before the history begins, a few minutes on how this course handles dates in the hundreds of…
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S01E07: One Suitcase: The Japanese American Incarceration in California (1942–1946)
Episode Title: One Suitcase: The Japanese American Incarceration in California (1942–1946) Episode Description: How the United States forced 120,000…
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S01E06: The United States in World War II: Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (1941– 1945)
Episode Title: The United States in World War II: Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (1941–1945) Episode Description: How a broke, isolationist America was thrown into…
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S01E05: Water Pie: Stories of Provision from the Great Depression (Hoover, Dust Bowl, The New Deal)
YouTube Video Referenced (on Depression Era Recipes): https://youtu.be/RQltDt1hxwk is=6rTAnxw9Wt5RDB_4 Episode Title: (HIS 223 -Week 4) Water Pie: Stories of…
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S01E04: The Flapper Era & the Loudest Decade: Jazz, Gin, and the Backlash of the 1920s
Episode Title: The Loudest Decade — Jazz, Gin, and the Backlash of the 1920s Episode Description: A nervous cornet player steps off a train in Chicago in 1922…
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S01E03: WWI: The Wrong Turn and How a Backstreet in Sarajevo Rewrote the American Century
Episode Title: The Wrong Turn, America, Wilson, and the Making of World War One Episode Description: A wrong turn on a Sarajevo street. A president who never…
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S01E02: The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie & the Second Industrial Revolution (1877–1900)
Title: The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie & the Second Industrial Revolution (1877–1900) Description: After the Civil War, America's economy…
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S01E01: The Second Founding: The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Acts of 1866–1875
Title: The Second Founding — The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Acts of 1866–1875 Episode Description: After the Civil War, Congress didn’t…