The AskHistorians Podcast
Summary: The AskHistorians Podcast showcases the knowledge and enthusiasm of the AskHistorians community, a forum of more than 400,000 history academics, professionals, amateurs, and curious onlookers. The aim is to be a resource accessible across a wide range of listeners for historical topics which so often go overlooked. Together, we have a broad array of people capable of speaking in-depth on topics that get half a page on Wikipedia, a paragraph in a high-school textbook, and not even a minute on the History channel. The podcast aims to give a voice (literally!) to those areas of history, while not neglecting the more common covered topics. Part of the drive behind the podcast is absolutely to be a counterpoint to other forms popular media on history which only seem to cover the same couple of topics in the same couple ways over and over again.
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Podcasts:
Today on the AskHistorians podcast, we're joined by ante-bellum slavery expert, moderator and contributor extroardinaire Pat (or Freedmenspatrol), to discuss the Missouri Compromise of 1820. In this episode we look at the nature of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s, the explosive tension between pro- and anti-slavery advocates, and the enormous political battle which unfolded over slavery and the statehood of Missouri.
AskHistorians Aloud -- Sports Corsets - The Why, Where, and Who
Today we're talking with Dr. Roel Konijnendijk about the career of Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson began as a scholar of Ancient Greek warfare but in recent decades he has transformed himself into a pundit. We discuss the implications that this transformation had on his reputation and later work. You can follow Roel on twitter at @Roelkonijn or on Reddit as /u/Iphikrates.
AskHistorians Aloud: Who was the Black Hand? Who was the Mafia?
AskHistorians Podcast 130 -- The Taiping Rebellion
AskHistorians Podcast 129 -- AskHistorians Asking Historians Again At the American Historical Association
AskHistorians Aloud -- Manichaeism and its Discontents
AskHistorians Podcast 128 -- AskHistorians Asking Historians At the American Historical Association
AskHistorians Aloud -- How DID Women Begin to Wear the Pants Around Here After All?!
AskHistorians Podcast 127 -- Hockey Fights/Hockey Nights: The Original Miracle On Ice.
AskHistorians Aloud -- Medieval Middle Eastern Lesbians and their Loves
AskHistorians Aloud -- When did it become acceptable for women to smoke too?
AskHistorians Podcast 126 -- AH Is Uncovering History with Dig - A History Podcast
AskHistorians Aloud -- How were medieval maps made, measured, and used?
AskHistorians Podcast 125 -- How Rome Fell Into Tyranny w/Dr. Edward J. Watts
