Best The History of the Twentieth Century episodes

42:59 | Sep 13th, 2015

We take a brief look at the world as it is on 1 January 1901--the birthday of the twentieth century.

43:08 | Aug 20th, 2017

The failure of the French counteroffensive has the Allies in retreat across the front, and it now appears there is no stopping the Germans short of Paris.

43:50 | Jan 23rd, 2017

Following Scott's acclaimed Discovery Expedition, he and Ernest Shackleton plan competing expeditions to the South Pole, along with a surprise appearance by Roald Amundsen.

47:45 | Mar 4th, 2018

The sinking of Lusitania and the deaths of 128 Americans was a shock. While there was little support in the US for war against Germany, there was a strong feeling that *some* kind of response was nece...Show More

52:09 | Jan 10th

Warren Harding was very much a hands-off kind of leader. This worked well when he appointed capable cabinet secretaries, especially Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.

53:45 | Jan 3rd

Gandhi returned to India during the Great War, but needed some time to reacquaint himself with the country after being away for so long. The British promise more self-rule, but the ruthless killing of...Show More

42:16 | Dec 27th, 2020

Mohandas Gandhi went to South Africa to represent an Indian business in a legal dispute. He stayed for 23 years, practicing law, advocating for equal rights for Indians, and developing his theory of r...Show More

47:46 | Dec 25th, 2020

By the beginning of the twentieth century, astronomers had some idea of the size and shape of our galaxy, though the consensus was that the galaxy represented the entirety of the Universe. But in the ...Show More