This week, we’re starting a multi-episode series on one of Japan’s most famous organizations: the study society-turned-religion-turned-political-party known as the…
This week: how do historians learn about the lives of everyday people? Let’s take a look at how it’s done…
This week, we’re talking about one of Japan’s most famous collections of supernatural tales, the fantastic Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of…
As we gear up for one of America’s most momentous elections, we look back on the man so bad at politics that he changed the way American elections worked forever. Meet Aaron Burr, the guy who caused so much chaos that America not only had to amend its own constitution to stop his shenanigans, it had to set its legal definition of treason after he attempted to create a new country just to rule it. Hamilton fans, get ready for the wild story of what happened after the musical ended. Politics junkies, enjoy the story of the man whose misbehavior set many of the precedents we’re still fighting about in presidential elections today.
This week, we’re talking about popular literature, with a specific focus on one of Japan’s most famous pieces of detective…
This week, we wrap up our history of Christianity in Japan with a look at the Occupation and Postwar Eras…
This week, we’ll cover the striving of Japanese Christians to be accepted as genuine patriots by the government during the…
This week, we’re going to talk about the heyday of Japanese Christianity during the Imperial era: the 1870s and 1880s,…
This week, we’re talking about Christianity during the Bakumatsu Period — the era that saw the forced opening of Japan…
This week, we’re turning our attention to Christianity in Japan after the “Christian Century.” Despite its status as a minority…