History

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was born around 1510 in Salamanca, Spain, into a noble but not wealthy family. As a younger son, he would...

Hernando de Soto was born around 1496 in Jerez de los Caballeros, in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain—a land of rugged hills, poor...

This episode continues the unfolding story of the original thirteen colonies, tracing how distinct communities—often separated by belief, ambition, and circumstance—took root along the...

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano was born in 1485 in Medellín, Spain, to a family of minor nobility. Though his lineage carried...

This episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story zooms in on the origins of the first English colonies, tracing how their distinct...

This episode traces the unlikely, often harrowing path that led a small band of English believers to the edge of a continent—and into the...

  The latest episode of The Empire: A 250‑Year American Story plunges listeners into the turbulent world that shaped the earliest European settlements in North...

Between 900 AD and 1492, the Catholic Church stood as the most powerful institution in Europe—spiritually, politically, and economically. Its monasteries preserved learning, its...

When we imagine Europe on the eve of Columbus’s 1492 voyage, we often picture a continent brimming with confidence—cathedrals rising, kings expanding their power,...

The next episode in our podcast series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, revisits the familiar story of Christopher Columbus—but strips away the...

Christopher Columbus was born between late August and late October of 1451 in the bustling maritime Republic of Genoa, a world where the sea...

In this episode of our podcast series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, we continue our look at the old world, before the...

Long before the skyscrapers of New York or the missions of California, long before Europeans imagined a world beyond the Atlantic, a remarkable civilization...

Long before Europeans set foot on the continent, long before the United States existed even as an idea, a powerful and sophisticated culture flourished...

Our podcast series and story The Empire: A 250 Year American Story begins here! Step into "the world before Columbus"—a world far more complex,...

The newest series from JB Shreve & the End of History podcast opens with an invitation—not to nostalgia, not to outrage, but to clarity....

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) remains one of the most provocative and influential political thinkers in Western history—a Florentine diplomat, historian, philosopher, and civil servant whose...

International relations has always been, at its core, an attempt to make sense of why nations compete, cooperate, and sometimes collide. Long before the...

Thucydides (c. 460–c. 400 BCE) stands as one of the most influential thinkers of the ancient world—an Athenian historian, general, and analyst whose work...

In our Six Years That Made the Modern Middle East podcast series, we come to our finale episode 2011. This is the year of...

In our Six Years That Made the Modern Middle East podcast series, we come to 2003, the year of the US invasion of Iraq....

  In our next episode of the Six Years that Made the Middle East, we look at 1979. In the aftermath of the Six Days...

  Episode 3 in our series Six Years That Made the Middle East, looks at 1967. This is the year of the famous Six Days War....

For the last 80 years, a popular teaching has emerged that states the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is Biblical in origin. According...

Episode 2 in our series Six Years That Made the Middle East, looks at 1948. This was the year that Israel became a state, but there...

In our first episode in this podcast series that explores the six pivotal years that made the modern Middle East, we look at 1919....

This final episode in our series looks at how the religious and Christian right lost its influence in America. Picking up with the culture...

The 1980s saw great prominence for the rise of the religious right. The beliefs and politics of this group transitioned from a subculture to...

After the tumult of the 60s and Watergate, Americans were burnt out by the mid 1970s. Jimmy Carter entered the scene as America’s first...

The idea of a Christian America began falling apart in the 1960s. For the religious right the 1960s and 70 answer the question, when did America...

There is a reason why American conservatives and Christian conservatives look back to the 1950s as the golden age of America. The 1950s were...

The origin of Christian involvement in American politics has a longer history than most people realize but it probably does not begin where you...

This weekend President Biden “forcefully” called for regime change in Russia. Speaking of Vladimir Putin, the US President said, “For God’s sake, this man...

Last week the Nobel Prize Committee began announcing its 2021 recipients. The highly esteemed Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish...

Yesterday Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQ Khan) died in Pakistan after being hospitalized for COVID19. Khan is the man responsible for facilitating turning Pakistan into...

This bonus episode in our series Never Again...Again – The Ongoing History of Genocide discusses some of our top recommended books on the history...

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a stain on world history and international relations. At a time when the western world celebrated the collapse...

The Silent Genocide is the name given to the Guatemalan genocide of an estimated 200,000 Mayan people in Guatemala. In addition to the 200,000...

This post tells the story of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. Our readers at the End of History are among the smartest in the world, and...

The United States will mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on Saturday. Most of us simply call it 9/11,...

Our list and summary of genocides and mass murders since 1900 - constantly being updated. Throughout our research for the podcast series Never Again,...

Afghanistan has long been the graveyard of empires. Throughout history, it seems every great empire and conqueror was enticed to the lands of Afghanistan. One...

In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, from the Never Again…Again – Continuous History of Genocide series, we looked at Mao and Stalin. If...

When the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, a narrative was quickly developed and sold to a generation that the Taliban were among the most...

Seventy-four years ago this week, India and Pakistan each declared their independence and partitioned the subcontinent into the newly defined nations of India and...

In 1975 a communist group known as the Khmer Rouge took control of the small nation of Cambodia. Under the leadership of Pol Pot,...

The word Holodomor translates to death by hunger or killing by starvation. It is the name given to the genocide carried out by Stalin...

In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, we examined the two worst killers of the 20th century. Many listeners were surprised that Hitler was...

This post looks at the Great Terror, sometimes called the Great Purge, that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union beginning in 1936. Learn...

Between 1967 and 1970, an estimated 2 million Igbo Nigerians were killed by the Nigerian military after seceding to form the Republic of Biafra....