Extra History
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.
Seasons
Rome: The Punic Wars
4 episodes
Episodes
World War I: The Seminal Tragedy
4 episodes
Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai
6 episodes
England: South Sea Bubble
5 episodes
Zulu Empire
4 episodes
Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora
12 episodes
Europe: The First Crusade
6 episodes
Korea: Admiral Yi
5 episodes
Middle East: Odenathus
2 episodes
England: The Broad Street Pump
4 episodes
Mary Seacole
2 episodes
World War II: The Battle of Kursk
5 episodes
Suleiman the Magnificent
6 episodes
WWII: The Resource War
4 episodes
Early Christian Schisms
4 episodes
The History of Writing
2 episodes
Samuel HaNagid
1 episodes
First Opium War
4 episodes
Urbino
1 episodes
Lindisfarne
1 episodes
The Brothers Gracchi
6 episodes
Hiawatha
2 episodes
The History of Paper Money
6 episodes
Veterans Day
1 episodes
Simón Bolívar
6 episodes
Catherine the Great
6 episodes
Ned Kelly
5 episodes
Mary Anning
1 episodes
The Articles of Confederation
4 episodes
Hunting the Bismarck
4 episodes
Kamehameha the Great
2 episodes
D-Day
4 episodes
The Bronze Age Collapse
4 episodes
Saragarhi
1 episodes
Great Northern War
5 episodes
The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
1 episodes
Otto von Bismarck
6 episodes
Berlin Airlift
1 episodes
Khosrau Anushirawan
5 episodes
WW1 Christmas Truce
2 episodes
Cheng I Sao
1 episodes
Cuban Missile Crisis
3 episodes
Genghis Khan
6 episodes
The Danelaw
2 episodes
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1 episodes
The Empire of Mali
5 episodes
The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry
5 episodes
Thermopylae
2 episodes
1918 Flu Pandemic
7 episodes
Pellagra
1 episodes
Kingdom of Majapahit
5 episodes
Battle of Saipan
2 episodes
Quantum Computing
6 episodes
Julie d'Aubigny
1 episodes
Viking Expansion
6 episodes
Defense of Poland
2 episodes
Sun Yat-sen
5 episodes
Tuberculosis
2 episodes
Jane Austen
1 episodes
Irish Potato Famine
5 episodes
The Boston Massacre
1 episodes
Siege of Vienna
3 episodes
Queen Nzinga
2 episodes
U.S. Civil War
1 episodes
The Three Kingdoms
2 episodes
History of England
6 episodes
Joan of Arc
5 episodes
The Warsaw Uprising
1 episodes
Hogs in History
1 episodes
The Inca Empire
5 episodes
History of Dentistry
2 episodes
Charles Darwin
1 episodes
Building Angkor
5 episodes
History of Space Travel
6 episodes
The Berlin Wall
1 episodes
Akhenaten
1 episodes
Policing London
5 episodes
History of Vaccines
1 episodes
Allan Pinkerton
1 episodes
The Haitian Revolution
6 episodes
Ibn Battuta
6 episodes
Rasputin
1 episodes
The 1929 Stock Market Crash
1 episodes
Dividing the Middle East
5 episodes
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
2 episodes
The Sacred Band
1 episodes
Exploring the Pacific
5 episodes
The Burning of Black Wall Street
1 episodes
Marie Antoinette
1 episodes
The Trojan War
2 episodes
Rome & The Third Century Crisis
5 episodes
Syphilis
2 episodes
The Harlem Hellfighters
1 episodes
Bartolomé de las Casas
1 episodes
Cleopatra
5 episodes
Voting in America
1 episodes
The Beast of Gévaudan
1 episodes
The Harlem Renaissance
1 episodes
End of the Samurai
5 episodes
The Polio Epidemic
1 episodes
Francis Walsingham
1 episodes
Saladin & the 3rd Crusade
5 episodes
Black Boxing Heavyweights
1 episodes
Redlining
1 episodes
Crusader States Craziness
1 episodes
Interstate Displacement
1 episodes
Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster
5 episodes
Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation
1 episodes
The Assassination of Medgar Evers
1 episodes
Jewish Pirates
4 episodes
Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge
1 episodes
Climbing the Matterhorn
2 episodes
Thirty Years' War
5 episodes
Negro League Baseball
1 episodes
The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair
1 episodes
Vlad the Impaler
5 episodes
History of Coffee
2 episodes
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
1 episodes
Grigori Rasputin
4 episodes
Marcus Garvey
1 episodes
The Great Emu War
2 episodes
Conquest of India
5 episodes
The Discovery of Insulin
2 episodes
The Cotton Gin
1 episodes
Japanese Militarism
5 episodes
Götz of the Iron Hand
1 episodes
The Zimmermann Telegram
1 episodes
Empire of Brazil
5 episodes
Maya Angelou
1 episodes
Mary Toft
1 episodes
History of Beer
5 episodes
Great Disappointment
1 episodes
New England Vampire Panic
1 episodes
Tulip Mania
5 episodes
Carlisle Boarding School
1 episodes
Billie Holiday vs The US Government
1 episodes
Ethiopian Empire
6 episodes
Eleanor of Aquitaine
4 episodes
Battle of Blair Mountain
2 episodes
The Irish Easter Rising
5 episodes
The Battle of Culloden
1 episodes
The Path to Pearl Harbor
6 episodes
Christmas Chaos at West Point
1 episodes
Frederick the Great
5 episodes
The Real Red Wedding
1 episodes
Operation Avalanche
2 episodes
John Brown
5 episodes
The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime
1 episodes
Napoleon in Egypt
6 episodes
A Race to Ancient Secrets
1 episodes
The Mass-Murdering Mongoose
1 episodes
The Crimean War
5 episodes
The Buddhist Expansion
5 episodes
Henry Ford
5 episodes
Ramesses the Great
2 episodes
The Little Ice Age
4 episodes
The Draft Riots of 1863
1 episodes
Shootout at the OK Corral
2 episodes
The Dodo Bird
1 episodes
The REAL War on Christmas
1 episodes
Wu Zetian
5 episodes
The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable
1 episodes
Pigs
1 episodes
Sitting Bull
4 episodes
Jim Thorpe
1 episodes
John L. Sullivan
1 episodes
Secret Societies
5 episodes
The Great Locomotive Chase
1 episodes
Hypatia of Alexandria
4 episodes
The Dark History of the Panama Railroad
1 episodes
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.
History of the Board Game
1 episodes
Join us as we delve into the history of board games, from ancient times to the Victorian era's moral games like The Mansion of Happiness, and discover how George B. Parker's vision transformed games into the entertainment products we know today. Learn about his journey from a young innovator to the founder of Parker Brothers, a company that would shape the future of gaming.
Invasion of Quebec
4 episodes
Dive into the backstory of early American military efforts, the rivalry between Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, and the critical impact of the Seven Years' War on the American Revolution. A blend of success and chaos that defined America’s first military disaster and the near-miraculous campaign that followed in the Invasion of Quebec, the American Disaster.
The Calendar's 10,000 Year History
1 episodes
Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an intervention! Resulting in the creation of the Gregorian calendar we use today.
Benedict Arnold
2 episodes
Benedict Arnold's aggressive leadership at Saratoga nearly earns him a hero's death, but instead, it leads him to a path of pain and betrayal. As a once revered Continental Army leader, his appointment as Philadelphia's military governor exposes him to corruption, extravagant living, and the allure of Peggy Shippen, a Loyalist's daughter. Now he's accused of corruption and Arnold's dreams begin to unravel and he betrays the country he fought for by contacting British spy Major John André through his wife, Peggy.
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