15 Minute History
Summary: 15 Minute History is a history podcast designed for historians, enthusiasts, and newbies alike. This is a joint project of Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, and Not Even Past, a website with articles on a wide variety of historical issues, produced by the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. This podcast series is devoted to short, accessible discussions of important topics in world history, United States history, and Texas history with the award winning faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, and distinguished visitors to our campus. They are meant to be a resource for both teachers and students, and can be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in history. For more information and to hear our complete back catalog of episodes, visit our website! Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
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Professor Julia Guernsey from UT's Department of Art and Art History combines the methodology of history, art history, and archaeology to offer a new look into this mysterious period at the beginning of recorded history in the Americas.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: Julia Guernsey, Professor, Department of Art and Art History The Preclassic period of Mesoamerican history (1500 BC – 200 AD) has left fascinating historical clues about what life was like in the form … Continue reading →
Guest Richard Bautch from St Edward's University in Austin discusses current thinking about the formation of the Pentateuch during the time of Ezra.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Richard Bautch, Associate Professor of Humanities, St Edward’s University, Austin The authorship of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament–known as the Torah or … Continue reading →
Art Historian Stephennie Mulder has spent the past decade working in Syria and shares a new look at history of Sunni and Shi'a in Syria during the medieval period; and how both histories are threatened by ISIS and the Syrian Civil War.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Stephennie Mulder, Assistant Professor of Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin After the decline of the Fatimids, the medieval Middle East entered a period called the Sunni Revival, … Continue reading →
Shainool Jiwa illuminates an often overlooked chapter in the history of Islamic sectarianism, one in which religious differences were used to unify diverse populations under the rule of a minority government, rather than to divide and alienate them.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shainool Jiwa, Head of Constituency Studies, Institute for Ismaili Studies, London Around the first millennium of the Christian era, a small group of Ismaili Shi’i Muslims established a dynasty that … Continue reading →
Ben Wright of UT’s Briscoe Center for American History has been working with the Bexar archives to document how Spain’s–and Texas’s–efforts to divert sources of food and funding to American colonial troops.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Ben Wright, Public Information Officer, Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin What role did Texas play in the American revolution? (What–Texas? It wasn’t even a state yet!) And … Continue reading →
Guest Henry Wiencek explores the deep contradictions and equally varied representations of John D. Rockefeller, the self-made millionaire whose name became synonymous with industry and free enterprise.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Henry Wiencek, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History Perhaps no individual in American history has achieved such meteoric heights as John D. Rockefeller, who embodies the image of the … Continue reading →
In picking up where Episode 57 left off, guest Shahrzad Ahmadi describes the tragic turn of events that sent shockwaves through the nascent Islamic community, and that continue to reverberate today.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shahrzad Ahmadi, Doctoral Student, Department of History In 7th century Arabia, the Islamic community was nearly torn apart by a civil war over the assassination of the third caliph, … Continue reading →
Nearly every world history textbook on the market explains the origins of sectarianism in the Islamic world as a dispute over the succession to Muhammad. It seems simple—but was it?
