The History of the Twentieth Century is a podcast dedicated to telling the story of the twentieth century. While we love talking about international politics and war as much as the next grognard, The History of the Twentieth Century takes an interdisciplinary approach, and endeavors to include art, culture, music, literature, theatre, film, television, science and religion, and their influences on one another and on good old international politics and war. We also try to include the historical perspectives of people not normally considered when talking about history, i.e., everyone who isn’t an upper-class, gray-haired, white European-American straight Christian man.

The producer and host of the podcast is Mark Painter. Mark was born in Reading and is a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania. He has degrees in engineering and law from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a gray-haired, white European-American Christian man, but not upper class, so, yay, diversity.

You can learn more about Mark Painter’s other projects here.