15 Minute History

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Shahrzad Ahmadi, Doctoral Student, Department of History Nearly every world history textbook on the market explains the origins of sectarianism in the Islamic world as a dispute over the … Continue reading →

Guest Michelle Daneri helps us understand contemporary thinking about the ways that Spanish and Native Americans exchanged ideas, knowledge, and adapted to each others' presence in the Southwest.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Michelle Daneri, Doctoral Student, Department of History In the late 17th century, Native American groups living under Spanish rule in what is now New Mexico rebelled against colonial … Continue reading →

Guest Brian Levack explains that medieval accusations of witchcraft are not supernatural at all, but based in the human need to explain the ordinary cycles of birth, death, sickness, wellness, and the constant struggle between rich and poor.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of HistoryGuest: Brian Levack, John E. Green Regents Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin Stories of witches and witch-hunting in early modern Europe have captivated us for centuries. During the early modern … Continue reading →

Daina Ramey Berry, from UT's Department of History, and Leslie Harris, from Emory University, have spent the past year collaborating on a new study aimed at re-discovering this forgotten aspect of slave experience in the United States.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guests: Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor, Department of History Leslie Harris, Department of History, Emory University When most people think about slavery in the United States, they think of … Continue reading →

Guest Francesca Consagra helps us make connections across centuries and genres and underscores our complex relationships to cats and dogs, revealing the many ways in which they say as much about us as we do about them.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Francesca Consagra, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Paintings, Blanton Museum of Art Our first episode of season 3 features the curator of the exhibition In the Company of Cats … Continue reading →

Ann Twinam from UT's Department of History discusses three of the major Mesoamerican civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec (Mexica), and their once-forgotten contributions to human civilization.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Ann Twinam, Professor, Department of History It’s become more and more widely known that, before first contact with Europe, the Americas were populated by advanced civilizations with complex systems of … Continue reading →

Fred M. Donner has spent much of his career studying the earliest history of Islam. He offers his hypothesis on what the early Islamic community may have looked like, and describes an exciting new find that may shed new light on an old puzzle.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Fred M. Donner, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago The story of Islam’s beginnings have been told and retold countless times. The traditional narrative says … Continue reading →

Guest Carla Kaplan, author of Miss Anne in Harlem: White Women of the Harlem Renaissance, joins us to talk about the ways white women crossed both racial and gender lines during this period of black affirmation and political and cultural assertion.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Carla Kaplan, Professor of American Literature, Northeastern University During the explosion of African American cultural and political activity that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance, a number of white women … Continue reading →