Archive overview
The whole ledger on one page
Every series in the archive, laid out across the years it covers — so you can see how much ground there is, and where one event spills into the next.
Series
21
in the archive
Lecture hours
149
271 episodes
Event cascades
86
charted spillovers
Fact cards
68
from the archive
Key figures
51
dramatis personae
Years spanned
3,526
1500 BC — today
Chronology
Every series across its years
Each band is one series, drawn across the years it covers. Wax red is a themed collection, brass a world series; a dashed band is members-only. The dots are the cascade events inside it.
- The Redrawing1914 — 1923 · 24 lectures
- The Scramble's Aftermath1884 — 1914 · 18 lectures
- Stone & Wire1961 — 1989 · 12 lectures
- Drawing the Line: The DMZ1950 — 1953 · 8 lectures
- Bronze & Walls: The Benin Empire1180 — 1897 · 14 lectures
- Cavalry & Caliphate: Oyo and Sokoto1600 — 1903 · 16 lectures
- Clay & Crowns: Nok and Ile-Ife1500 BC — 1400 AD · 10 lectures
- Desert Crossroads: Kanem-Bornu700 — 1893 · 12 lectures
- Salt, Gold & Sand: The Songhai Empire1464 — 1591 · 14 lectures
- The Oracle's Roads: The Aro Confederacy1690 — 1902 · 12 lectures
- The Unconquered Crown: Aksum to Adwa100 — 1941 · 14 lectures
- Gold, Stool & Freedom: From Ancient Ghana to Asante300 — 1957 · 14 lectures
- Lines in the Sand: Making the Modern Middle East1916 — 1948 · 14 lectures
- The Shrinking Map: Native Nations of North America1763 — 1890 · 16 lectures
- The Long Siege: How the Hundred Years' War Ended1337 — 1453 · 12 lectures
- The Peace of Westphalia: Birth of the Sovereign State1618 — 1648 · 10 lectures
- The Social Contract: Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau1651 — 1789 · 10 lectures
- Mine and Thine: John Locke and Private Property1689 — 1887 · 8 lectures
- The Long Road to Human Rights: Europe, Africa & Asia539 BC — 1948 · 15 lectures
- Workers Unite: Marx and the Communist Manifesto1848 — 1991 · 10 lectures
- A Vindication: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman1792 — 1979 · 8 lectures
1500 BCAD 15001900Today
Collections
Two shelves, 21 series
4 series · 33 hrs · 62 lectures
World archive
Treaties, walls and the cold-war buffers that drew the modern map.
17 series · 116 hrs · 209 lectures
Themed collections
Africa, the Middle East, Native Nations, Europe's wars and peace, and the philosophers of rights.
- Bronze & Walls: The Benin Empire
- Cavalry & Caliphate: Oyo and Sokoto
- Clay & Crowns: Nok and Ile-Ife
- Desert Crossroads: Kanem-Bornu
- Salt, Gold & Sand: The Songhai Empire
- The Oracle's Roads: The Aro Confederacy
- The Unconquered Crown: Aksum to Adwa
- Gold, Stool & Freedom: From Ancient Ghana to Asante
- Lines in the Sand: Making the Modern Middle East
- The Shrinking Map: Native Nations of North America
- The Long Siege: How the Hundred Years' War Ended
- The Peace of Westphalia: Birth of the Sovereign State
- The Social Contract: Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau
- Mine and Thine: John Locke and Private Property
- The Long Road to Human Rights: Europe, Africa & Asia
- Workers Unite: Marx and the Communist Manifesto
- A Vindication: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman
Shelves by subject
Where the archive is thickest
- Africa8 series
- Philosophers & Rights5 series
- Europe at War & Peace2 series
- Cold War1 series
- Empires1 series
- Middle East1 series
- Native Nations1 series
- Treaties1 series
- Walls1 series
Access
1
open to browse without a subscription
20
held behind the members-only band