- 616
- Episodes
- 212
- Transcribed
- 347
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 54K
- YouTube views
About Western Civ
A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.
- Publisher
- Adam Walsh
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 11 Aug 2014
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
212 of 616 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 561: The World at War
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12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Episode 561: The World at War
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The second thing that starts to happen in 1942 is the U-boats come to America. On the 13th of January 1942, Germany began Operation Drumbeat, sending a handful of long-range U-boats to the eastern seaboard of the United States. What they found there astonished them. American coastal cities had not imposed blackouts, so freighters and tankers were silhouetted against the neon of Miami and Atlantic City. Lighthouses and navigational buoys were lit. Merchant ships sailed independently on predictable routes, chattering on the radio. There was no convoy system at all. In the first six months of 1942, U-Boat sank something on the order of 400 ships in American coastal waters in the Caribbean. […]
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- Leah Garrett
- Gregg Owen
- James Palmer
- Ambrogio Caiani
- Hans van de Ven
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- YouTube views
- 53,641
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 111 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 236 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 67
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