15 Minute History

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor, Department of History Slavery marks an important era in the history of the United States, one that is often discussed in terms of numbers and … Continue reading →

Guest Jacqueline Jones, one of the foremost experts on the history of racial history in the United States, helps us understand race and race relations by exposing some of its astonishing paradoxes from the earliest day to Obama's America.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Jacqueline Jones, Professor, Department of History There is no question that the idea of race has been a powerful driving force in American history since colonial times, but what exactly is race? … Continue reading →

Guest Seth Garfield shows how a little-known chapter of World War II history illuminates the ways outsiders’ understandings of the nature of the Amazon have evolved over the course of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Seth Garfield, Director, Institute for Historical Studies During World War II, the governments of Brazil and the United States made an unprecedented level of joint investment in the economy and infrastructure of … Continue reading →

Guest Robert Olwell describes the Royal Proclamation of 1763, its effects on the history of colonial North America, and ponders whether it is really the smoking gun that caused the American Revolution as some have claimed.

Host: Henry Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Robert Olwell, Associate Professor, Department of History Between 1754 and 1763, Great Britain, France, and a collection of French-allied Native American tribes fought a brutal war over trading rights in colonial … Continue reading →

Guest Chris Dietrich explains the origins of the oil crisis and the ways it shifted international relations in its wake.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Assistant Professor, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Fordham University Most Americans probably associate the 1973 oil crisis with long lines at their neighborhood gas stations, but those … Continue reading →

Guest Mary Neuburger walks us through current historical thinking about the five hundred year legacy of Ottoman rule in southeastern Europe, and gives us an alternate explanation for the turbulence of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Mary Neuburger, Professor, Department of History Southeastern Europe, or the Balkans, grabbed headlines in the 1990s after the collapse of communism with the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the bloody … Continue reading →

Guest Joseph Parrott helps us understand the system of "separateness" that dominated the lives of South Africans of all races for so long, and introduces us to the key organizations and players that fought against it and finally dismantled it.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: Joseph Parrott, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History With the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, attention turned once again to the conditions that brought him international acclaim as the first black … Continue reading →

Guest Sahar F. Aziz helps us understand the political earthquakes in Egypt's bumpy transition from authoritarian rule to what comes next, and sheds light on what it might take for the country to arrive at the democracy its people demanded in the streets.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Sahar F. Aziz, Associate Professor, Texas A&M School of Law, Fort Worth, TX The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 captivated the imagination of pro-democracy activists worldwide and turned the name … Continue reading →