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: Samantha Rose Rubino, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Ben Weiss, Department of History, UT-Austin Part of the civilizing mission of European powers in their colonies in Asia and Africa was an interest in encouraging hygiene and health among the … Continue reading →
Guest Kristin Wintersteen has worked on the history of industry subject to the temperaments of on-again off-again current cycles in the Pacific, and how the boom and bust of one of the first superfoods has led to new discussions about global nutrition.
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Kristin Wintersteen, Department of History, University of Houston After World War II, governments and international aid agencies were looking for a way to ameliorate the widespread hunger and malnutrition that populations … Continue reading →
Guest R. Joseph Parrott takes a look at the indecisive position the United States took on decolonization after helping liberate Europe from the threat of enslavement to fascism.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: R. Joseph Parrott, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History Following World War II, a large part of the world was in the hands of European powers, established as colonies in the previous centuries. As … Continue reading →
This episode takes a new look at how the Paris Commune's radical government managed to find support from rich and poor, conservative and liberal, to try to regain dignity in the face of France’s brutal defeat.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale For four months in 1871, angry citizens of Paris seized control of the city after a humiliating defeat against the Prussian Empire and … Continue reading →
Guest Kristie Flannery found Diego's story in the Spanish colonial archives, and narrates his tale in the broader context of the powerful political and economic forces at work in Spain's global empire.
Host: Christopher Rose, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Kristie Flannery, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History At the height of the Spanish Empire, the Manila Galleon – an annual flotilla between Manila and Acapulco – was considered the lifeline of … Continue reading →
Host: Samantha Rose Rubino, Doctoral Student, Department of History Guest: Christopher Rose, Assistant Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies In the summer of 2015, an obscure Qur’ān manuscript hidden in the far reaches of the Cadbury Research Library at the … Continue reading →
Guest Christopher Rose has been following the headlines and puts the discovery of the Birmingham Qur'ān within the larger field of Islamic and Qur'ānic Studies, and explains how the text might raise as many questions as it answers.
James Joshua Hudson describes surprising finds he made conducting fieldwork in Hunan that offer a glimpse into the deeply layered social tensions on the eve of the downfall of the Qing dynasty.
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: James Joshua Hudson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Knox College In the waning days of China’s Qing Empire, a riot broke out in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. After two years … Continue reading →
In the early part of the 20th century, Texas became more integrated into the United States with the arrival of the railroad. With easier connections to the country, its population began to shift away from reflecting its origins as a breakaway part of Mexico toward a more Anglo demographic, one less inclined to adapt to existing Texican culture and more inclined to view it through a lens of white racial superiority. Between 1915 and 1920, an undeclared war broke out that featured some of the worst racial violence in American history; an outbreak that's become known as the Borderlands War. Guest John Moran Gonzales from UT's Department of English and Center for Mexican American Studies has curated an exhibition on the Borderlands War called "Life and Death on the Border, 1910-1920," and tells us about this little known episode in Mexican-American history.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: John Moran Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Department of English In the early part of the 20th century, Texas became more integrated into the United States with the arrival of the railroad. With easier … Continue reading →
