History of Southeast Asia

With this episode the podcast returns to Southeast Asia during World War II. This time we look at what happened in Burm... Read more

Because the previous three episodes were focused on just Vietnam, it is now time to go west and catch up on the Second I... Read more

Happy New Year, and to begin 2018, the podcast will begin covering the course of World War II in Southeast Asia. We wil... Read more

This episode begins our look at the conflicts during the Cold War era, by covering Indonesia's struggle for independence... Read more

This episode begins a series on the battles fought in the Philippines during 1944 and 1945, pitting the Americans and Fi... Read more

Episode 38 continues on the topic the podcast has been covering since the year began -- World War II in Southeast Asia. ... Read more

With today's episode, the podcast finishes covering World War II in New Guinea. Although the war turned in the Allies' ... Read more

The Southeast Asians you are familiar with came originally from China, in at least five waves of migration: the Austron... Read more

This year three holidays fall on April 1: April Fool's Day, Easter and Passover. Now you have another reason to celebr... Read more

Now it is time to finish what we started in Episode 38, and cover the conclusion of the Japanese invasion of the Philipp... Read more

Now the podcast moves to the east side of the Southeast Asian mainland. This is the first in a two-part series on how t... Read more

This episode will focus on the east coast of the Southeast Asian mainland, going up to 938 A.D. This timeframe covers t... Read more

This is another special episode, prompted because a donor to the podcast asked three questions that I should have answer... Read more

In the last episode you heard about Japan invading China, occupying French Indochina, and bombing Pearl Harbor. Now thi... Read more

This is another episode that is not set in Southeast Asia, but next to it. Today we begin the long jungle war in New Gu... Read more

With this episode, we begin a narrative completely in the twentieth century, so welcome to recent history! Here we also... Read more

This episode catches up on the Philippines, a part of Southeast Asia the podcast last talked about in Episode 14. Here ... Read more

The first Southeast Asian nations larger than a city-state appeared in or near the first century A.D. In other words, r... Read more

In recent episodes we have met two European nations that explored and exploited parts of Southeast Asia, Portugal and Sp... Read more

Here is the first episode for 2019. New years mean new beginnings, and because the previous episode finished what this ... Read more