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Season 2, Episode 78: Maria Montessori, a Role Model
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Episode 1
The King and General Diaz
Episode 2
The Prisoners' Odyssey
Episode 3
Trento and Trieste
Episode 4
Mutilated of Body and Soul
Episode 5
The Myth of the Combatant
Episode 6
Frederick II: Stupor Mundi or Antichrist?
Episode 7
Hoover and the FBI
Episode 8
Mario Scelba, the Police Mobile Units' Strategist
Episode 9
The Weimar Republic
Episode 10
The Night of Broken Glass
Episode 11
The Parthenopean Republic
Episode 12
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Church
Episode 13
Fenoglio and the Resistance Between the Lines
Episode 14
1952 Elections in America: Eisenhower vs Stevenson
Episode 15
Panagoulis and the Regime of the Colonels
Episode 16
Robespierre, the Incorruptible
Episode 17
The Italian Resistance and Women
Episode 18
Fidel Castro Enters Havana
Episode 19
Female Adultery Is No Longer a Crime
Episode 20
The Oath of Allegiance to Fascism
Episode 21
Aurelian and the Defense of the Empire
Episode 22
Leo Longanesi, a Nonconformist Voice
Episode 23
The Tehran Conference
Episode 24
Bourguiba, Tunisia's Father
Episode 25
The Massacre of Avola
Episode 26
Garibaldi in Sicily
Episode 27
Galeazzo Ciano, a Tragic Rise and Fall
Episode 28
The 1969 Nixon's Visit to Rome
Episode 29
Henry IV: the Abjuration and the Throne
Episode 30
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Episode 31
Ovid, the Troublesome Poet
Episode 32
The 1908 Messina Earthquake
Episode 33
1964 Elections in America: Johnson vs Goldwater
Episode 34
Paul the Apostle and the Church
Episode 35
Emperor Diocletian
Episode 36
Charles De Gaulle's France
Episode 37
The Roots of Immigration
Episode 38
Retreat From Russia
Episode 39
Enrico Mattei: the Challenge For Oil
Episode 40
Caligula, Excess in Power
Episode 41
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Episode 42
Jan Palach's Tragic Spring
Episode 43
The Birth of the Italian People's Party
Episode 44
The 1919 Paris Peace Conference
Episode 45
Hannibal, the Enemy of Rome
Episode 46
Guido Rossa, the Workman who Challenged the Red Brigades
Episode 47
The Second Vatican Council
Episode 48
The Origins of Nazi Antisemitism
Episode 49
Exodus 1947
Episode 50
The Rome of Kings
Episode 51
De Gasperi and Fascism
Episode 52
Beatles' UK
Episode 53
Hollywood Goes to War
Episode 54
Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
Episode 55
I Viceré's Sicily
Episode 56
Eugenio Colorni, a Militant for Europe
Episode 57
Vichy France
Episode 58
1968 Elections in America: Nixon vs Humphrey
Episode 59
Rijeka: Tito's Purge
Episode 60
The Lateran Treaty
Episode 61
The Paris Commune
Episode 62
François Mitterrand
Episode 63
The Soviet Retreat From Afghanistan
Episode 64
The Bombing of Monte Cassino
Episode 65
The Serfs
Episode 66
Mariano Rumor
Episode 67
Solidarność
Episode 68
Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution
Episode 69
Savonarola: Saint or Heretic?
Episode 70
Montanelli, War Correspondent
Episode 71
1933: the Reichstag Fire
Episode 72
The Fanfani Plan: a House for Italians
Episode 73
Pius XII: Doubts and Silence
Episode 74
Venice and the Jewish Ghetto
Episode 75
The Acerbo Law: Liberalism's Darkest Hour
Episode 76
The Kids of Villa Emma
Episode 77
1980 Elections in America: Reagan vs Carter
Episode 78
Maria Montessori, a Role Model
Episode 79
The Severan Dynasty
Episode 80
The Assassination Attempts on Mussolini
Episode 81
SS, the Führer's Militia
Episode 82
Aldo Moro, Christian Democracy's Secretary
Episode 83
Francesco Crispi, an Authoritarian Democrat
Episode 84
Ivan the Terrible
Episode 85
The Assassination of Mino Pecorelli
Episode 86
The Birth of the Italian Fasci of Combat
Episode 87
Journey to the Moon
Episode 88
The Martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre
Episode 89
The Reconquista's Spain
Episode 90
Carlo Rosselli: Socialism and Freedom
Episode 91
The League of Nations
Episode 92
Benedetto Croce, Civilian and Politician
Episode 93
Claretta and Mussolini
Episode 94
The Byzantine Empire
Episode 95
Mussolini and the Balillas
Episode 96
Oscar Romero, the Saint of the Campesinos
Episode 97
1992 Elections in America: Bush vs Clinton
Episode 98
1933 Nazi Book Burnings
Episode 99
Alexander the Great
Episode 100
The Endeavour of Fiume
Episode 101
Gorbachev: End of an Empire
Episode 102
The Architects of the Duce
Episode 103
Nuclear Energy in Italy
Episode 104
The Last Days of Jesus
Episode 105
The Medieval Bestiaries
Episode 106
Italy's Red Biennium
Episode 107
The Female Writers of Italian Resistance
Episode 108
The Clandestine Radios of the Italian Resistance
Episode 109
Hitler's British Friends
Episode 110
Carlo Cattaneo: Thought and Action
Episode 111
The Church and Mafia
Episode 112
Women at Work
Episode 113
Leonardo da Vinci
Episode 114
Superga: the End of the Grande Torino
Episode 115
The Magna Charta
Episode 116
OVRA, the Fascist Regime's Police
Episode 117
The Historic Compromise
Episode 118
Magic and Science During Renaissance
Episode 119
Sigmund Freud and Michelangelo's Moses
Episode 120
Constantine the Great and the Church
Episode 121
The Cambodian Genocide
Episode 122
The Battle of Solferino
Episode 123
Red Scare in Hollywood
Episode 124
Livingstone's Africa
Episode 125
The Storming of the Bastille
Episode 126
Francesco Saverio Nitti: History of a Liberal
Episode 127
General Nicola Bellomo
Episode 128
Falcone and Borsellino, Dedication and Courage
Episode 129
1944: Rome, an Occupied City
Episode 130
1944: Rome, a Freed City