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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Guest Frank Guridy joins us to discuss the multifaceted, multilayered movement that inspired a new generation of African-Americans—and other Americans—and demonstrated the importance of Black culture and its contributions to the West.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Frank Guridy, Professor, Department of History and Director, John L. Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies. In the early 20th century, an unprecedented cultural and political movement brought African-American … Continue reading →
In the late 15th century, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and conquered the Indian Ocean, bringing the rich trade under the direct control of the crowned heads of Europe and their appointed Indian Ocean Trading Companies. Or did he? Did Europe ever really come to dominate the 90,000 year old trade, […]
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Susan Douglass, doctoral candidate, George Mason University In the late 15th century, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and conquered the Indian Ocean, bringing the rich … Continue reading →
In the first of a two part episode guest Susan Douglass describes the murky beginnings of trade and travel in the Indian Ocean basin, and the cultural exchanges and influences that the trade had in the days before the Europeans arrived.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Susan Douglass, doctoral candidate, George Mason University Every American schoolchild knows that Columbus sailed west to reach Asia with the hope of finding precious metals, expensive fabrics, and exotic … Continue reading →
Guest Charles E. King from Georgetown University discusses the state of Ukranian-Russian relations, and historical developments in Ukraine itself to help us understand the situation in Ukraine today.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University In the first months of 2014, a popular uprising in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine led to the deposition … Continue reading →
Guest Samuel Thrope offers a fascinating look at a time when Iranian socialists looked at Israel as a possible model for what Iran could become—and how that vision soured after the 1967 Six Day War.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Samuel Thrope, Fellow, Martin Buber Society, Hebrew University Anyone following the news today could be forgiven for thinking that Iran and Israel were natural enemies and had been since … Continue reading →
Guest Sam White from Ohio State University makes the convincing argument that environmental and climactic factors are as influential in human history as economic, social, political, and cultural factors.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Sam White, Department of History, the Ohio State University What do a failed war by the Ottomans against the Hapsburg Empire, a rural rebellion in eastern Anatolia, the disappearance … Continue reading →
Guest Karl Hagstrom Miller helps us understand how popular music came to be segregated as artists negotiated the restrictions known as the "Jim Crow" laws in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Karl Hagstrom Miller, Associate Professor, Department of History Anyone who’s been to the music store lately (or shopped for digital downloads) is probably familiar with the concept of music categorized … Continue reading →
Guest Daina Ramey Berry she discusses teaching the "senses of slavery," a teaching tool that taps into the senses in order to connect to one of the most important eras in US history and bring it to the present.
