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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Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: George B Forgie, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. … Continue reading →
Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: George B Forgie, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. … Continue reading →
After the chaos of the American Civil War, Congress and lawmakers had to figure out how to put the Union back together again–no easy feat, considering that issues of political debate were settled on the battlefield, but not in the courtroom nor in the arena of public opinion. How did the defeated South and often […]
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: H.W. Brands, Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History, UT-Austin After the chaos of the American Civil War, Congress and lawmakers had to figure out how to put the … Continue reading →
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: H.W. Brands, Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History, UT-Austin After the chaos of the American Civil War, Congress and lawmakers had to figure out how to put the … Continue reading →
Aarti Bhalodia discusses the push for South Asian independence from British colonial rule which resulted in the mass migration of 100 million people, one of the most pivotal, and traumatic, events of the 20th century.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Aarti Bhalodia, Research Associate, South Asia Institute How did an expatriate Indian lawyer who’d been living in South Africa for two decades become the leading figure in the movement … Continue reading →
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Aarti Bhalodia, Research Associate, South Asia Institute How did an expatriate Indian lawyer who’d been living in South Africa for two decades become the leading figure in the movement … Continue reading →
Philippa Levine explains the wide-reaching effects of the eugenics movement, which at its best inspired the eradication of harmful diseases, but at its worst led to compulsory sterilization, and the horrific experiments of the Nazi death camps.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Department of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Philippa Levine, Professor; Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professorship in the Humanities; Co-Director British Studies Program Early in the twentieth century, governments all over the world thought they had … Continue reading →
Host: Joan Neuberger, Department of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Philippa Levine, Professor; Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professorship in the Humanities; Co-Director British Studies Program Early in the twentieth century, governments all over the world thought they had … Continue reading →
Who was the historical Buddha? When and where did he live? And what were the social currents and forces in his own time that shaped his worldview and led him to renounce the world in an effort to save humanity from itself?
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Keely Sutton, doctoral student, Department of Asian Studies Buddhism is unquestionably one of the world’s major faith traditions, but its origins are somewhat shrouded in mythology and legend surrounding its founder, … Continue reading →
Madeline Y Hsu discusses the tumultuous experience of Chinese immigration to the U.S., the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and sheds light on the lingering immigration issues first discussed in the 19th century.
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Madeline Y. Hsu, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Center for Asian-American Studies Fears that the U.S. is being invaded by illegal aliens, of vast numbers waiting to … Continue reading →
