Extra History
Overview
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
World War I: The Seminal Tragedy
Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai
England: South Sea Bubble
Zulu Empire
Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora
Europe: The First Crusade
Korea: Admiral Yi
Middle East: Odenathus
England: The Broad Street Pump
Mary Seacole
World War II: The Battle of Kursk
Suleiman the Magnificent
WWII: The Resource War
Early Christian Schisms
The History of Writing
Samuel HaNagid
First Opium War
Urbino
Lindisfarne
The Brothers Gracchi
Hiawatha
The History of Paper Money
Veterans Day
Simón Bolívar
Catherine the Great
Ned Kelly
Mary Anning
The Articles of Confederation
Hunting the Bismarck
Kamehameha the Great
D-Day
The Bronze Age Collapse
Saragarhi
Great Northern War
The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
Otto von Bismarck
Berlin Airlift
Khosrau Anushirawan
WW1 Christmas Truce
Cheng I Sao
Cuban Missile Crisis
Genghis Khan
The Danelaw
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Empire of Mali
The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry
Thermopylae
1918 Flu Pandemic
Pellagra
Kingdom of Majapahit
Battle of Saipan
Quantum Computing
Julie d'Aubigny
Viking Expansion
Defense of Poland
Sun Yat-sen
Tuberculosis
Jane Austen
Irish Potato Famine
The Boston Massacre
Siege of Vienna
Queen Nzinga
U.S. Civil War
The Three Kingdoms
History of England
Joan of Arc
The Warsaw Uprising
Hogs in History
The Inca Empire
History of Dentistry
Charles Darwin
Building Angkor
History of Space Travel
The Berlin Wall
Akhenaten
Policing London
History of Vaccines
Allan Pinkerton
The Haitian Revolution
Ibn Battuta
Rasputin
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
The Trojan War
Rome & The Third Century Crisis
Syphilis
The Harlem Hellfighters
Bartolomé de las Casas
Cleopatra
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
Redlining
Crusader States Craziness
Interstate Displacement
Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster
Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation
The Assassination of Medgar Evers
Jewish Pirates
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
Marcus Garvey
The Great Emu War
Conquest of India
The Discovery of Insulin
The Cotton Gin
Japanese Militarism
Götz of the Iron Hand
The Zimmermann Telegram
Empire of Brazil
Maya Angelou
Mary Toft
History of Beer
Great Disappointment
New England Vampire Panic
Tulip Mania
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
John Brown
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
Henry Ford
Ramesses the Great
The Little Ice Age
The Draft Riots of 1863
Shootout at the OK Corral
The Dodo Bird
The REAL War on Christmas
Wu Zetian
The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable
Pigs
Sitting Bull
Jim Thorpe
John L. Sullivan
Secret Societies
The Great Locomotive Chase
Hypatia of Alexandria
The Dark History of the Panama Railroad
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
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
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
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
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.
