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Videos of an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. The team creates short-form animated video essays every week about world history.

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The Dark History of the Panama Railroad

2024

Eager to join the California Gold Rush, you choose the 40-day steamship route through Panama over the grueling overland journey. But Panama's jungles, lethal diseases, and treacherous terrain await. Enter William H. Aspinwall, a visionary shipping magnate, who aims to revolutionize this journey with the Panama Railroad. Discover the harrowing tale of its construction, the immense human cost, and how it transformed travel and trade forever.

01. The Dark History of the Panama Railroad

2024-06-22

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Rome: The Punic Wars

World War I: The Seminal Tragedy

Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai

England: South Sea Bubble

Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora

Europe: The First Crusade

Korea: Admiral Yi

Middle East: Odenathus

England: The Broad Street Pump

World War II: The Battle of Kursk

Suleiman the Magnificent

WWII: The Resource War

Early Christian Schisms

The History of Writing

First Opium War

The Brothers Gracchi

The History of Paper Money

Simón Bolívar

Catherine the Great

The Articles of Confederation

Hunting the Bismarck

Kamehameha the Great

The Bronze Age Collapse

Great Northern War

The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire

Otto von Bismarck

Khosrau Anushirawan

WW1 Christmas Truce

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

The Empire of Mali

The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry

1918 Flu Pandemic

Kingdom of Majapahit

Battle of Saipan

Quantum Computing

Julie d'Aubigny

Viking Expansion

Defense of Poland

Irish Potato Famine

The Boston Massacre

Siege of Vienna

The Three Kingdoms

History of England

The Warsaw Uprising

Hogs in History

The Inca Empire

History of Dentistry

Building Angkor

History of Space Travel

The Berlin Wall

Policing London

History of Vaccines

Allan Pinkerton

The Haitian Revolution

The 1929 Stock Market Crash

Dividing the Middle East

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

The Sacred Band

Exploring the Pacific

The Burning of Black Wall Street

Marie Antoinette

Rome & The Third Century Crisis

The Harlem Hellfighters

Bartolomé de las Casas

Voting in America

The Beast of Gévaudan

The Harlem Renaissance

End of the Samurai

The Polio Epidemic

Francis Walsingham

Saladin & the 3rd Crusade

Black Boxing Heavyweights

Crusader States Craziness

Interstate Displacement

Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster

Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation

The Assassination of Medgar Evers

Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge

Climbing the Matterhorn

Thirty Years' War

Negro League Baseball

The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair

Vlad the Impaler

History of Coffee

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

Grigori Rasputin

The Great Emu War

Conquest of India

The Discovery of Insulin

Japanese Militarism

Götz of the Iron Hand

The Zimmermann Telegram

Empire of Brazil

History of Beer

Great Disappointment

New England Vampire Panic

Carlisle Boarding School

Billie Holiday vs The US Government

Ethiopian Empire

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Battle of Blair Mountain

The Irish Easter Rising

The Battle of Culloden

The Path to Pearl Harbor

Christmas Chaos at West Point

Frederick the Great

The Real Red Wedding

Operation Avalanche

The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime

Napoleon in Egypt

A Race to Ancient Secrets

The Mass-Murdering Mongoose

The Crimean War

The Buddhist Expansion

Ramesses the Great

The Little Ice Age

The Draft Riots of 1863

Shootout at the OK Corral

The REAL War on Christmas

The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable

John L. Sullivan

Secret Societies

The Great Locomotive Chase

Hypatia of Alexandria

The Dark History of the Panama Railroad

History of the Board Game

Invasion of Quebec

The Calendar's 10,000 Year History

Benedict Arnold

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