We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew (today it's Matt, Rob, and Ali on board) on Sunday, May 26 starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 8).
It will be 1-2 hours long depending on how many questions we get (we always do our best to answer all of them!)
You can post questions at the link starting
These cards are created by series artist Ali R. Thome!
2019-05-20 20:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The combined Lies episode is finally here!
Music videos:
Recommended reading:
Three kings ruled in China. Three kings, each dreaming of ruling all under heaven. Three kings who rallied their armies for battle. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.
2019-05-16 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Researchers are beginning to learn that the makeup of the Union and Confederate armies in the US Civil War was a lot more nuanced and diverse than we had previously known. Here is an episode on the accounts of some of those surprising soldiers!
2019-05-09 22:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu--these were the men who would define the Three Kingdoms period. Even though the actual history of this period is often conflated with the events of the historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there was still a lot of compelling drama and intrigue we can explore--let's delve in to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which really did happen!
2019-05-09 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Queen Nzinga is a woman who, despite being one of the best- documented rulers in early modern Africa, still presents a puzzle. Her record, from ambitious noble, to guerrilla fighter, to consummate diplomat and religious reformer is still haunted by myths conjured up by her enemies--and a few constructed by Nzinga herself.
Catch our Lies episode next week for behind-the-scenes on our research for the Siege of Vienna and Queen Nzinga series!
2019-05-02 23:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post906QHEFPB0VB for 15% off at https://store.dftba.com/collections/extracredits
2019-05-01 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome Cassandra Khaw, who guest-wrote this mini-series! (We will be doing a combined Lies episode on this and Siege of Vienna in a few weeks)
Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, a scion of the Mbundu people, will spend forty years standing between the Portuguese and their ambitions, using everything at her command -- her cunning, her ruthless intellect, her military acumen, even the bodies of her people -- whatever it takes to succeed.
2019-04-25 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew on Sunday, April 28 starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 7).
It will be 1-2 hours long depending on how many questions we get (we always do our best to answer all of them!).
You can post questions at the link starting now (and during the act...
2019-04-24 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Battle of Vienna would mark the turning point in Ottoman expansion into Europe, paving the way for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
2019-04-18 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostA few of us from Extra Credits were in Boston a few weeks back for PAX East. Boston's certainly not a city that lacks for history. Big glass skyscrapers stand right next to preserved state buildings from the 1700s. We walked the bridge over the Boston Harbor every morning, right past the Boston Tea Party Museum. The number of plaques to read was dizzying. But this memorial, a block away from my hotel, stood out most.
Boston is one of the cities in America with the large...
2019-04-12 03:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Vienna had received an offer from Kara Mustafa—surrender and live in peace as Muslims or Christians, or resist and condemn yourself to death and slavery. The city’s commander, Starhemberg, chose resistance, and Vienna was on full alert at the start. But those days of initial panic were done, and now the siege was grueling, bloody routine.
2019-04-12 02:15:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out some of Ali R. Thome's art for episodes #2 and #3 of the Siege of Vienna!
2019-04-08 21:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Over a hundred thousand Ottoman troops are heading for the city. Only 15,000 men defend the walls. They have only six days to prepare the city. How long can they hold?
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2019-04-04 23:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostM5X9DXMJXWRH for 15% off at https://store.dftba.com/collections/extracredits
2019-04-01 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We wanted to provide some comments from Rob regarding a few questions that he was not able to answer directly himself on the Q&A due to timing issues (*cough* baby *cough*), so here they are! You can view the entire Q&A at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/47rk3dye
1. Rob - off the top of your head, what do you know about James Brooke and the Kingdom of Sarawak? (Additional - aside from...
2019-03-29 20:46:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzuygbp6toA
Say hi to Rob's newest family member!
Recommended reading:
4:43 - what exactly *was* the b...
2019-03-29 03:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Please note that the usual day (Sunday) is different this time, to accommodate GDC and PAX East travel schedules of the EC crew. We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew on Monday, February 25 starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 7).
It will be 1-2 hours long depending on how many questions we get (we always do our best to answer all of them!).
You can post questio...
2019-03-22 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Later this year we'll be getting a series on The Inca: An Empire Out of Thin Air!
At the height of Inca power, they ruled the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas, with a dominion stretching from the Amazon rainforest to the highest peaks of the Andes. Despite lacking basic technologies such as the wheel, the Inca built cities at elevations where visitors found it hard to even breathe, and maintained a road netw... 2019-03-22 08:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Boston, 1770.
A frigid winter night. A British sentry strikes a local citizen. Civilians begins to gather. Reinforcements arrive to back up the young sentry. Insults and snowballs escalate. Then out of the darkness comes a shout: “FIRE!”
2019-03-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Artist Ali R. Thome wanted to share some of her favorite screencaps from this episode she did! Boston Massacre will air on Saturday this week, with Irish Potato Famine "Lies" coming next weekend. Enjoy the art!
What 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 later in 2019.
Friendly reminder: You can vote for as many choices as you want! This style of voting helps us see what people are most interested in without having to make tough decisions between a couple of close favorites.
The poll will end at 11:59 PM PT on Tuesday, March 19.
Current Schedule: &nb...
2019-03-15 22:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We are pleased to announce a special 6-episode series of "Extra History of England"!
When? Extra History of England will start in late May, after our two mini-series on the Siege of Vienna and Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, but before we get to covering Joan of Arc. It is not an "extra-Extra History" series; it will be airing on Satu...
2019-03-15 22:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time that the first healthy harvest arrived in 1849, a million people had died due to prejudiced men writing bad policy—a stark warning of what happens when poor relief becomes a tool of political ideology.
2019-03-15 04:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Irish immigration soared in the wake of the potato blight. Despite the promise of a better life, the Irish faced a lot of financial hardships, xenophobia, and classism--even from their own community.
2019-03-07 23:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post
