Great Big History Podcast

Dr. Christopher Gennari
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Lecture style Podcast covering Ancient History to Modern world events. We Cover War and Art Philosophy and Education Great Pyramids and Great Walls and why they work (and why they dont) We cover Gender and Race, Sex and Marriage, Masculinity and Feminism, We cover David, Dante, and Disneyland And We try to relate all of it to us today and analyze what the past has to tell us about ourselves

  1. 04/11/2022

    Baltic Wars: Ukraine 2022 - Where Do We Go From Here (Special Episode)

    Episode Notes In April, The Camden County College Department of History and political Science Hosted a Community Lecture on the Situation in Ukraine in 2022. We discussed Russian and Soviet History, We discussed Ukrainian History since 1991, We discussed International Relations and International Institutions, and then I had the last topic "What Might Happen Next." This vid is that part of the lecture evening (expanded from its 18m original form). Unfortunately, the evening in its entirety was not recorded. So I made this special video just for you. I hope you like it.

    43 min

  2. 04/05/2022

    BALTIC WARS! Scandinavia and Baltic 1520-1809

    Episode Notes Baltic Wars: Scandinavia from 1520 - 1809 (and before and beyond) is a new season of Great Big History Podcast.  In Baltic Wars we are going to talk about the Murders, the Wars, the Heroes, the Villains of North and Eastern Europe.   In this episode we look at how a revolt in the South Eastern Ukraine sparked a larger war and then a Russian Invasion which set off Western intervention in the Baltic. We Look at the Time of Troubles, Poland-Lithuania's army, a genocide of Jewish settlers which was a precursor to ethnic violence for the next 400 years. We look at battles won and lost and treaties signed but never carried out. And we set up the wars to come in the 1650s and beyond. you can find my book on Sweden in the 1650s Invasions, Insurgency and Interventions: Sweden's wars in the 1650s at Amazon

    33 min

  3. 03/30/2022

    Roman Christianity (Bonus Episode)

    Episode Notes Discussion of Christianity during the Roman Empire from the pre-Jesus conquest of Palestine by Pompey to the social commentary of Jesus to the radical Romanization of Paul to the Philosophical assimilation of Augustine's "City of God" with Platonic Philosophy. We even invent thought crimes, build a capital and destroy an Empire.

    1h 11m

  4. 09/19/2021

    Disney Princesses and American Feminism + Fight Club and American Masculinity

    Episode Notes The Three Stages of Disney Princesses // The Conservative Portrayal of Liberal Femininity // Race and Women and Disney Princesses // The Continual Success of American Women // Fight Club and American Men in Continual "Crisis" //

    1h 3m

  5. 09/19/2021

    American Conservatism - From Wilderness to Dominance

    Episode Notes The Suburbs, the Sixties, the Backlash, Religion, Re-Segregation, Economic Inequality, the End of the Welfare State, Racism, Sectionalism, Winning the Cold War, and the America you live in now.

    1h 9m

  6. 09/19/2021

    China After World War II - Disaster, Death, Recovery, Success

    Episode Notes China occupied // Civil War // Mao's Great Leap Forward // Mao's Cultural Revolution // Starvation, Death, and independence from the West // Economic Modernization // The Square Incident // Wealth and political Conservatism

    52 min

  7. 09/19/2021

    Africa, Decolonization, Apartheid, Disaster and Recovery

    Episode Notes Africa after World War 2 // The Trauma the Europeans leave behind // Apartheid Ends and Nelson Mandela teaches the World to Forgive // Europeans Sing Songs to "Save" Africans

    32 min

  8. 09/19/2021

    South Asia Partition, War and Recovery

    Episode Notes India gains Independence // Pakistan Gains Independence // Bangladesh gains Independence from Pakistan // Everyone Fights, Everyone's Traumatized, and then We Add Nukes // Hindu India leaves Islamic Pakistan Behind // There are wars in Afghanistan

    31 min
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Lecture style Podcast covering Ancient History to Modern world events. We Cover War and Art Philosophy and Education Great Pyramids and Great Walls and why they work (and why they dont) We cover Gender and Race, Sex and Marriage, Masculinity and Feminism, We cover David, Dante, and Disneyland And We try to relate all of it to us today and analyze what the past has to tell us about ourselves

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  • Creator
    Dr. Christopher Gennari
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2022
  • Episodes
    134
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2017
  • Show Website
    Great Big History Podcast