Despite having the least amount of impact in the long term, the Norse settlements in North America are by far the most famous product of the Viking Expansion.
2018-11-30 07:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like in the spring of 2019 we'll be getting 2 mini-series (2-3 ep each) of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba and The Siege of Vienna, followed by a ...
2018-11-30 01:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Poland, alone, faces off both Soviet Russia armies and the Germans for five long weeks. Foreign reporter Julien Bryan captures footage of the siege of Warsaw to deliver to the outside world. A resista...
2018-11-29 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
CORRECTION: The dress-up room and the museum that had the exhibit on the Beiyang Warlords was not at the Memorial Hall in Taipei, it was at the Sun Yat-Sen Museum in Hong Kong. These are pics from tw...
2018-11-26 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat series would you like us to air on Extra History? Cast your vote(s) below and let us know! This series is expected to air in spring 2019.
When it comes to the Extra History video schedule...
2018-11-24 20:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting right now through Nov. 26 (the Black Friday-Cyber Monday shopping weekend) we have some new merch on the s...
2018-11-23 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
182 Polish soldiers defend the peninsula. They're under attack from a battleship, dive bombers, field artillery and nearly a division’s worth of German soldiers. Even the local police have thrown in...
2018-11-22 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Scandinavians stumbled on Iceland, at first on accident--then, gradually exploring it--and finally intentionally migrating there because despite the clash of glaciers and volcanoes, Iceland was fu...
2018-11-22 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: we are going live in approx 90 minutes, and testing this "notify" feature as an alternative to double-posting. --Belinda
We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of ...
2018-11-21 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To our patrons of Extra History--thank you so much for being in this community and directly making this show possible. It has been a little over 4 years since the official launch of this Patreon commu...
2018-11-20 02:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In the conclusion to this epic Greek myth, Perseus demonstrates that he is not intimidated by the grey women and their eyeball, or by Hermes's complicated directions, or by Medusa, or by a winged hors...
2018-11-16 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Vikings ventured further inland beyond the coasts of Europe, at first attacking Constantinople as they had everywhere else--but eventually settling into trade agreements and settling among Slavs and s...
2018-11-16 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hearing tales of chaos in Ireland, Thorgest the Sea King arrives with 120 long ships. He builds walls and a port, declaring himself king over all foreigners in Ireland. And he names this new city afte...
2018-11-09 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In Argos, centuries and centuries ago, there lived a king, Acrisius. He had a single child, a daughter, more radiant than any of the other women of the world. This child though he valued not, for what...
2018-11-02 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostShould you wish to obtain merchandise from the Extra Credits store, you can use code R5DAQRDHHRE7 this month at 2018-11-02 04:56:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The sack of Paris marks a major turning point in the Viking expansion, a time when simple coastal raids became full-scale invasions. But it didn’t have to happen that way...
2018-11-02 03:37:21 +0000 UTC
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You can watch the music video here! We ended up having some extra time to put together a little video for the music ...
2018-10-28 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew on Sunday, October 28 starting at 7pm Pacific time (GMT - 7). It will be 1-2 hours long depending on how many ques...
2018-10-26 04:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In a house by the sea, somewhere in Norway, a baby is born. History will not remember his name, and no skald will sing of his deeds. His family are not lords or warriors, yet he—and people like himâ...
2018-10-25 21:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post
When it comes to the Extra History video schedule we are currently looking at early spring 2019, and writer/director 2018-10-23 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
You can still watch the "music video" here!
2018-10-20 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As the age of heroes faded and monsters were cast from the world, Zeus brought a task to the wisest of titans, Prometheus and his brother Epithemeus. They were to create the animals and form man to po...
2018-10-20 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
What does the quantum revolution mean today? We talk about quantum computing application possibilities in machine learning, cybersecurity, environmental science, and more.
You can see more art...
2018-10-19 14:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Our fantastic writer Rob Rath reviews the mispronunciations we made, the sources we used, and the extra stories we couldn't fit into our series on the Kingdom of Majapahit.
We previously used Google Drive to host the trading cards, but then realized it would be so much easier to just attach them directly to the posts--we've also lost a few of the links in previous posts ...
2018-10-16 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You can download the digital trading cards straight from this post now! These have been made by series artist Ali R. Thome. See you for Majapahit Lies this weekend!
2018-10-15 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
What is quantum decoherence? Let’s follow the adventures of these adorable qubits into their low-temperature, extremely sterile environments and find out…
2018-10-12 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Julie d'Aubigny lived during an unusual time in 17th-century France when political and cultural norms were shifting. She was allowed to exist openly as a bisexual woman pursuing her swordsmanship and ...
2018-10-11 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Majapahit Lies is still coming, but we decided to swap the airdates with our one-off episode before we head into the Viking Expansion series.
On October 13, we're covering the rambunctious adventure...
2018-10-10 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
