follow.it gives you an easy way to subscribe to The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show's news feed! Click on Follow below and we deliver the updates you want via email, phone or you can read them here on the website on your own news page.
You can also unsubscribe anytime painlessly. You can even combine feeds from The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show with other site's feeds!
Title: The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show
Is this your feed? Claim it!
The war that nearly killed Rome wasn't fought against foreigners. It was fought against the men Rome refused to call Romans.
For 100 years, Rome took the sons of its Italian allies for its legions, sent them to fight in Roman armies, buried them when it went badly — and denied them citizenship. Rome could see the problem. Reformers proposed fixing it for de...
A counterfactual thought experiment — a departure from the usual researched history on this channel. Thanks to subscriber @history1099 for the idea.
In the real world, the Emperor Aurelian reunified a collapsing Rome, rebuilt its currency around the Unconquered Sun, and was murdered in 275 AD by his own officers over a forged kill-list — nine years before D...
You don't need a bad man to destroy a republic. You need a competent one with a practical problem and a solution that works a little too well.
Gaius Marius should never have mattered. He was a nobody from a hill town southeast of Rome. He clawed his way into the Senate through military competence because his family had no name and no network. And then he fa...
On July 17, 1918, the Romanov family was shot in a basement in Yekaterinburg — and most history files it under "murder." That's too small. The dynasty didn't die that night. It died in 1613, the moment the first Romanov built a state that was nothing but the Tsar: a throne with no machine underneath it, no institution that could outlive one man or reform itself while he was a...
You don't need a tyrant to kill a republic. You just need permission.
133 BC. The Capitol. Broken benches, snapped legs, senators pouring out of a meeting to attack an election already underway. For more than three and a half centuries — since the tribune of the plebs was created around 494 BC — no sitting tribune had been touched by his own government, let...