The entire Historiansplaining catalogue, laid out in a chronology of the history of the world.
Click the different gray tiles below to trace how Dr. Sam takes listeners through the fossil record from when the first hominids reached the Pacific Ocean 1.5 million years ago, to the earliest discernible advances of homo sapiens out of Africa, to the first settlements and cities, culminating in the last four millennia of intense empire-building, of myth-making, of cultural flourishings and of countless conquests; The Timeline reveals this interplay of so many different human experiences as they happen contemporaneously at different points around the globe, with societies and human power-structures growing from small events and ideas into mass movements and even into imperial juggernauts, attacking, displacing or co-opting other peoples, both neighbors and inhabitants of foreign shores – all of which culminates in the complex, multilayered and very often obscured realities of the modern world of today. And throughout the expanse of world history Dr. Sam explores human achievements in survival and in perseverance, in oral story-telling and in preserving traditions, in science and in architecture, in archaeological discovery and even in the ever evolving meanings of just what is “history” and just what is “culture” throughout the ages…
With a many installments of Historiansplaining covering wide swaths of history in a single episode, most installments appear on the Timeline at multiple points in history, encompassing the key dates of events analyzed in that episode.
~ 1,500,000 BCE
~ 300,000 BCE
~ 9000 BCE
~ 4000 to 2000 BCE
~ 2000 to 250 BCE
250 BCE to Year 0
Year 0 to 250
250 to 750
750 to 1000
1000 to 1100
1100 to 1200
1200 to 1300
1300 to 1400
1400 to 1450
1450 to 1500
1500 to 1600
1600 to 1625
1625 to 1650
1650 to 1700
1700 to 1800
1800 to 1850
1850 to 1900
1900 to 1930
1930 to 1950
1950 to 2000
2000 to 2020
2020 to 2023
And Today
Things You Don’t Know
