Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
In our second episode on the Italian Wars, we explore how Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's vast territ
What creates civilization, in the most basic sense? According to Professor David Frye, who joins me
The Italian Wars were the defining conflict of the sixteenth century, bridging the gap between the M
It's a concept! It's a feeling! It's... been a long time since we talked about it. We're throwing it
Friend of the show Keith Pluymers returned for a great chat about fuel, environmental history, and w
In Renaissance Italy, war was simultaneously art, science, and big business, waged for profit and gl
Renaissance Italy was a political minefield, where backstabbing dukes, ambitious republics, and disl
We're revisiting an episode of Tides of History we originally released in January 2018. Pay close at
We catch up a bit more on Jakob Fugger's personality - or lack thereof - along with some of the othe
At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthpla
The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their st
The Civil War and its decades-long aftermath continue to define American life well into the twenty-f
Let's chat about some of the other interesting things Patrick discovered in his research for this mo
Queen Isabella of Castile was one of the great state-building monarchs of the later Middle Ages, but
Queen Isabella of Castile was the greatest of the state-building rulers of the late Middle Ages. Dur
We talked to bestselling novelist Philippa Gregory about her views of history and historical fiction
1492 was a big year, and not just because a certain Genoese navigator set sail into the unknown. Eur
1492 was a truly wild year, and there is no one better to talk about it with than one of Patrick's f
States didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps, driven solely by the will of indomitable ruler
When Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, met the business end of a Swiss halberd in 1477, his 19-yea
