I've been a fan of his since around 2013. Tbf you haven't missed much. Everything he's done since WW1 has been... not bad but imho not all that interesting. He just finished a 6 part series (which of course took him almost 3 years) on the Pacific theater in WW2. Which is fine but it's military history (Zzzzzz) and if you're an American it's already an over-saturated topic. And before that he did a 3 part series on Persia. Persia is cool and all but it's so old that we don't have a ton of good information to go off of.
I think this one will be good though. A long time ago Dan did a history of slavery and his thesis was basically that chattel slavery like in the US is nothing like slavery in the past. I learned a lot from that one. Dan seems to genuinely despise racism, so that's good.
Btw you all should really listen to his HH episode "American Peril". It's tied for my favorite ep of his with "Prophets of Doom". It's like an awesome prequel to "Blowback" season 2. Dan's not a leftist but he has a solid track record of anti-interventionism / anti-imperialism. He did a Common Sense ep back in 2014 where he said antagonizing Russia with the Maidan stuff and NATO expansion was a bad idea (episode was literally called "Poking the Bear"). And he has said before the issue that he would get worked up the most over back in the 80s when he was in college was US intervention in Latin America.
I've been a fan of his since around 2013. Tbf you haven't missed much. Everything he's done since WW1 has been... not bad but imho not all that interesting. He just finished a 6 part series (which of course took him almost 3 years) on the Pacific theater in WW2. Which is fine but it's military history (Zzzzzz) and if you're an American it's already an over-saturated topic. And before that he did a 3 part series on Persia. Persia is cool and all but it's so old that we don't have a ton of good information to go off of.
I think this one will be good though. A long time ago Dan did a history of slavery and his thesis was basically that chattel slavery like in the US is nothing like slavery in the past. I learned a lot from that one. Dan seems to genuinely despise racism, so that's good.
Btw you all should really listen to his HH episode "American Peril". It's tied for my favorite ep of his with "Prophets of Doom". It's like an awesome prequel to "Blowback" season 2. Dan's not a leftist but he has a solid track record of anti-interventionism / anti-imperialism. He did a Common Sense ep back in 2014 where he said antagonizing Russia with the Maidan stuff and NATO expansion was a bad idea (episode was literally called "Poking the Bear"). And he has said before the issue that he would get worked up the most over back in the 80s when he was in college was US intervention in Latin America.
I have listened to American Peril before, but it's been a really long time