Second Decade

Nine small islands, called the Isles of Shoals, lie off the coast just over the line between New Hampshire and Maine. On... Read more

In March 1815, in London, Elizabeth Fenning served a plate of dumplings to the family that employed her as a cook. Almos... Read more

For centuries, the historic region of Lithuania, torn between its powerful European neighbors, was one of the great cent... Read more

This brief trailer is to introduce you to Second Decade host Sean Munger's newest podcast, a fiction/alternate history s... Read more

This is a crossover episode with the Green Screen podcast.Leo Tolstoy’s epic 1869 novel War & Peace is undeniably on... Read more

After being sold out by the great European powers, especially Great Britain, as a sop to Sweden, the people of Norway fe... Read more

At the beginning of the Napoleonic era, Norway was not its own country, but rather the junior partner in the unequal com... Read more

The bodies of dead human beings can tell us a lot about the past, but most human remains from the distant past tend to b... Read more

America was growing rapidly in the 1810s, and growth meant building. Buildings of all kinds, from churches, markets and ... Read more

The mysterious weather and climate anomalies of the Year Without Summer did not end with the coming of fall or the end o... Read more