History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (TRIH eps 183-184)
1861 · Resource
This episode is a crossover between The Rest Is History hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook and guest Dan Carlin (Hardcore History), the second installment of their mini-series. The three tackle a series of hypothetical and large-scale questions about historical choice and contingency — choosing historical identities, whether studying history makes us happier, and what inventions a ruler in AD 1000 would prefer. They debate the morality and political effects of collective memory, referenc...
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Around 1861
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)