Over the course of the academic year, student protests have roiled college campuses like at no other time in recent memory. Going further back though, historians see plenty of parallels — as we...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-145-student-protests/
Political partisanship is not only a hallmark of US democracy today. There is also a long history of dysfunction and division as old as America. H.W. Brands’s new book, Founding Partisans is a�...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-144-partisanship-in-the-revolutionary-era/
Climate change and population growth is creating a new appreciation — and anxiety — around water infrastructure, both in the western United States and around the world. We’re joined today ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-143-glen-canyon-and-water-infrastructure/
The Hapsburg Empire was founded in 1282 (or 1526, depending on who you ask) and lasted until 1918. Despite its increasingly antiquated and illiberal tendencies, it survived the reformation, the t...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-142-world-war-i-and-the-hapsburg-empire/
In the wake of the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era emerged as a time of radical change in the 19th century United States. Dr. Peniel Joseph brings this conversation into the 20th and 21st centu...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-141-reconstruction-from-past-to-present/
Ridley Scott’s new film, Napoleon, is a monumental historical epic that has endured mixed reviews since its release last month, due to historical inaccuracies and narrative jumps. But do such c...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-140-ridley-scotts-napoleon/
“How can a nation founded on the homelands of dispossessed Indigenous peoples be the world’s most exemplary democracy?” asks Professor Ned Blackhawk (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone), aut...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-139-new-theory-of-american-history/
In 1967, the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre traveled to Egypt and Israel on a quest to understand the region and its conflicts. The trip would challenge and change him — and lead to accusa...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-137-jean-paul-sartre-in-the-arab-world/
Traditionally, we think about European power being built with ships and swords. However, new scholarship uncovers a more nuanced and complex picture. Today, 15 Minute history is joined by Mélani...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-138-sex-race-and-labor-in-french-colonialism/
Afro-Indigenous histories are central to the history of the United States, tribal sovereignty, and civil rights. Today, Dr. Kyle Mays (Saginaw Chippewa) author of An Afro-Indigenous History of th...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-136-afro-indigenous-histories-of-the-us/
While the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War are important aspects of the United States and Cuba’s shared history, they are not the only elements the two share. According to today’s guest ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-135-connected-histories-of-cuba-and-the-united-states/
To kick off the new season of 15 Minute History, we sit down with Dr. Javier Wallace, founder and guide of Black Austin Tours. While those familiar with Austin know the George Washington Carver M...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-134-austins-black-history/
In 1844, Philadelphia, a hub for Irish immigration to the United States, witnessed a series of violent Nativist riots that targeted Irish Americans and Roman Catholic churches. In our season fina...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-133-the-1844-philadelphia-riots/
Historians argue that several versions of the group known as the Ku Klux Klan or KKK have existed since its inception after the Civil War. But, what makes the Klan of the 1920s different from the...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-132-history-of-the-second-ku-klux-klan/
How do historians teach Environmental History in an age where climate catastrophe fills the headlines? Megan Raby and Erika Bsumek, both History Professors and Environmental Historians discuss wh...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-131-climate-and-environmental-history-in-context/
Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) was home to a wide array of groups including Native American Nations, enslaved Indian Freed-people, African Americans, White settlers, an...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-130-black-reconstruction-in-indian-territory/
In the antebellum years, freedom and unfreedom often overlapped, even in states that were presumed "free states." According to a new book by Kevin Waite, this was in part because the reach of the...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-129-slavery-in-the-west/
For almost two decades, Edmund (Ted) Gordon has been leading tours of UT Austin that show how racism, patriarchy, and politics are baked into the landscape and architecture of the campus. Accor...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-128-the-racial-geography-tour-at-u-t-austin/
In recent years, conversations about the US-Mexico border have centered around the border wall. However, according to today’s guest, C.J. Alvarez, the wall is one of many construction projects ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-127-history-of-the-u-s-mexico-border-region/
Stereotypes of the 1950s family generally include a hardworking husband, a diligent housewife, their children, and a white picket fence. However, research by Lauren Gutterman and others suggests ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-126-postwar-lesbian-history/
In the Spring of 2016, protests concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline dominated national headlines. For many people, it was the first time they'd thought about the relationship between Indigenous...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-125-environmental-justice-and-indigenous-history/
In the age of COVID19 and coronavirus, lots of people are talking about the Spanish flu. What was the Spanish flu, and what can it teach us about the current crisis?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-124-the-spanish-influenza-of-1918-1920/
Today's guest, Lina del Castillo, recently published a book titled Crafting Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia, which offers a new understa...
Sexual orientation conversion therapy, the attempt to change one's sexual orientation through psychological or therapeutic practice, has now been banned in 17 American states and the District of ...
Today's guests are the editors of the Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History. Ellen Hartigan O'Connor and Lisa Matterson, both professors of history at the University of Californi...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-121-the-case-for-womens-history/
Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these women because their behavior didn�...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-120-slave-owning-women-in-the-antebellum-u-s/
The Beatles arrived for their first concert in the United States on February 11, 1964 to rabid fanfare. Legions of screaming women greeted John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo ...
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the sou...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-118-the-caribbean-roots-of-biodiversity-science/
The subject of endless speculation, fascination, and laudatory writings, German physicist Albert Einstein captured the imaginations of millions after his discoveries transformed the field of phys...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-117-albert-einstein-separating-man-from-myth/
Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. At its peak in the 20th century, the population of Jews was over 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews still live in...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-116-jewish-life-in-20th-century-iran/
Between 1910 and 1920, an era of state-sanctioned racial violence descended upon the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas Rangers, local ranchers, and U.S. soldiers terrorized ethnic Mexican communities, un...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-115-violent-policing-of-the-texas-border/
Many American Indian cultures, like the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, practiced a form of non-hereditary slavery for centuries before contact with Europeans. But after Europeans arrived on Nativ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-114-slavery-in-indian-territory/
The year 1968 was a momentous and turbulent year throughout the world: from the Prague Spring and the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, to the assassinations of Martin Luthe...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-113-1968-the-year-the-dream-died/
On November 27, 1978, Harvey Milk and George Moscone were murdered in San Francisco’s City Hall. Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians in California, and his short political career w...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-112-harvey-milk-forty-years-later/
In this second roundtable on the legacy of The Great War, we are joined by David Crew and Charters Wynn from UT's History Department to discuss the war's impact on Germany and Russia.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-111-the-legacy-of-world-war-i-in-germany-and-russia/
On October 30, 1918, the Ottoman Empire signed a treaty of capitulation to the Allied Powers aboard the HMS Agamemnon, a British battleship docked in Mudros harbor on the Aegean island of Lemnos...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-110-the-legacy-of-wwi-in-the-balkans-and-middle-east/
The first notes of the samba and the tango instantly capture ones attention, transporting the listener to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the River Plate in Argentina. Seen as national sym...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-109-the-tango-and-samba/
The US Marine Corps may now proudly boast to be the home of the few and the proud, but this wasn’t always the case. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the poorest funded and least re...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-108-a-history-of-the-u-s-marine-corps/
A new archaeological find seems to provide the first contemporary evidence of a major figure in the early history of Islam–and even more fascinating, it appears to have been written by a loyal ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-107-the-yazid-inscription/
In Kiev, in 1911, a Jewish factory manager named Mendel Beilis was indicted for murdering a young boy. Many believed that Beilis had carried out the murder as part of a ritual known as the “blo...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-106-the-blood-libel/
Host: Brooks Winfree, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut It’s well known in American history that slavery was abo...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-105-slavery-and-abolition/
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), which pitted a left-leaning Republic, suported by the Soviet Union, against right-leaning nationalists, supported by the Nazi, more than 35,000 people fr...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-104-foreign-fighters-in-the-spanish-civil-war/
Guest Julia Gossard shares her research into the fascinating world of child ambassadors who were expected to live in two worlds and create lasting relationships between France and a global networ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-103-french-child-ambassadors-in-the-east/
Lauren Henley describes the events of 1884-85, but also discusses how these murders tell us something about the uneasy racial history of the postbellum south, and also asks what drives our fascin...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-102-the-servant-girl-annihilator/
Today's guest, Sheila Fitzpatrick, discusses some of the myriad interpretations that have been given to the 1917 revolutions, judgments about its success and importance, and offers insight into R...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-101-the-bolshevik-revolution-at-100/
In which we take the occasion to ask the important questions like: how in the world did we get to 100 episodes?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-100-extravaganza-spectacular/
As we near the 99th anniversary of Armistice Day, Ben Wright from UT’s Briscoe Center for American History, takes a look at World War One on our very own home front: the storied Forty Acres of ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-99-the-40-acres-during-world-war-i/
Guest Gustavo Cerqueira explores the cultural sterotypes that centuries of slavery left in post-emancipation Brazil, and the ways that teatro negro sought to re-position Afro-Brazilian people--li...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-98-brazils-teatro-negro-and-afro-brazilian-identity/
Guest Tatjana Lichtenstein has studied the Zionist movement in Czechoslovakia and gives us a glimpse into the interwar period when Czech Jewish leaders saw the possibility of being accepted into ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-97-the-zionist-movement-in-czechoslovakia/
Julia Gossard walks us through the connections between Louis XIV's absolutist rule and a fantastic series of events that's become known as "The Affair of the Poisons."
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-96-louis-xivs-absolutism-and-the-affair-of-the-poisons/
Returning guest Jeremi Suri (UT-Austin) takes a long historical look at what has made presidents successful in the role of chief executive, and asks whether the office has evolved to take on too ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-95-the-impossible-presidency/
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Steven Hahn of New York University helps us turn this political buzzword into a historical phenomenon from a time period in American history that has a number of p...
Guest Andrea Gutierrez introduces us to epic South Asian poems from the beginning of the first millennium that past the Bechdel test, when women's narrative critiqued, cajoled, narrated, and prov...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-93-women-and-the-tamil-epics/
First year history graduate student John Carranza, specializing in disability history, sheds some light on historical representations of disability, and how modern understanding of disability is ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-92-disability-history-in-the-united-states/
Steven Mintz has long been interested in the transformations of family life through the ages and, in this episode, talks about how nearly everything we think we know about family life would be un...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-91-the-history-of-the-family/
Preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph, discusses Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth cent...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-90-stokely-carmichael-a-life/
How does a fossil become a celebrity? Lydia Pyne shares vivid examples of how human ancestors have been remembered, received, and immortalized.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-89-seven-skeletons/
Our guest today, Heather Williams, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Help Me Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-88-the-search-for-family-lost-in-slavery/
Brian McNeil specializes in history of United States foreign relations, and is currently revising his book manuscript titled, Frontiers of Need: the Nigerian Civil War and the Origins of American...
A few years ago, scholars suggested that the Agricultural Revolution in mankind's deep past might have been nothing short of a disaster. Not so fast, says Rachel Laudan, this week's guest, while ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-86-rethinking-the-agricultural-revolution/
Philippa Levine from UT's Department of History and Program in British Studies walks us through the contemporary British politics and rocky history of Britain and the EU that contributed to this ...
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed the iconic Main Building tower on the University of Texas at Austin campus with a small arsenal of weapons and opened fire.
Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work, The Second Sex, is a dense two volume work that can be intimidating at first glance, combining philosophy and psychology, and her own observations.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-83-simone-de-beauvoir-and-the-second-sex/
Guest Ahmad al-Jallad shares his research that’s shedding new light on the writings of a complex civilization that lived in the Arabian peninsula for centuries before Islam arose.
Guest Ashley Dean just completed her doctorate in history at Emory University examining the impacts of this pre-modern trans-Pacific linkage whose far-reaching impact touched nearly every part of...
Guest Ben Weiss discusses the earliest encounters between indigenous Africans and European medical practitioners.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-80-colonial-medicine-and-stds-in-1920s-uganda/
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 supe...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-79-fishmeal-the-superfood-that-never-was/
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.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-78-the-u-s-and-decolonization-after-world-war-ii/
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’...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-77-the-paris-commune/
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 e...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-76-the-trans-pacific-slave-trade/
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 ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-75-the-birmingham-quran/
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.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-74-the-changsha-rice-riots-of-1910/
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 ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-73-the-borderlands-war-1915-20/
Our first roundtable features three experts who've taken the destruction of sites where they've worked and lived seriously, and are working to raise awareness of the importance of antiquities in ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/roundtable-antiquities-in-danger/
Guest Mike Loader gives an enthusiastic look at high drama at the peak of the cold war, which gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Soviet Union from a different perspective.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-71-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-latvian-national-communists/
Our first episode of Season 4 explores the little known history of slavery in Iran, how it came to be abolished in the 19th century, and how Iranian society has slowly forgotten its involvement w...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-70-slavery-and-abolition-in-iran/
Guest Jessica Werneke has just completed her doctorate that looks at this oft-overlooked aspect of Soviet society, and discusses the turbulent world of amateur photography in the Soviet Union.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-69-the-amateur-photography-movement-in-the-soviet-union/
Dominic Lieven of the London School of Economics has spent his career examining problems of political stability in Europe in the 19th century, and helps us understand the world on the eve of its ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-68-the-russian-empire-on-the-eve-of-world-war-1/
Imagine the pressures of translating a sacred text whose language is well known and imbued with religious significance and symbolism. Leonard Greenspoon from Creighton University has done just th...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-67-how-jews-translate-the-bible-and-why/
Guest James Martin from UT’s Department of History describes the motivations for President Nixon’s historic unilateral reaction and how it affected both Americans as well as our ally across t...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-66-operation-intercept/
Adam Shapiro from Birkbeck University describes how evolution was first received in the United States, and the debates that led up to its most famous test–the Scopes “Monkey Trial” held in ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-65-darwinism-and-the-scopes-monkey-trial/
Professor Julia Guernsey from UT's Department of Art and Art History combines the methodology of history, art history, and archaeology to offer a new look into this mysterious period at the begin...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-64-monumental-sculpture-of-preclassic-mesoamerica/
Guest Richard Bautch from St Edward's University in Austin discusses current thinking about the formation of the Pentateuch during the time of Ezra.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-63-ezra-and-the-compilation-of-the-pentateuch/
Art Historian Stephennie Mulder has spent the past decade working in Syria and shares a new look at history of Sunni and Shi'a in Syria during the medieval period; and how both histories are thre...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-62-sunni-and-shia-in-medieval-syria/
Shainool Jiwa illuminates an often overlooked chapter in the history of Islamic sectarianism, one in which religious differences were used to unify diverse populations under the rule of a minorit...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-61-the-fatimids/
Ben Wright of UT’s Briscoe Center for American History has been working with the Bexar archives to document how Spain’s–and Texas’s–efforts to divert sources of food and funding to Amer...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-60-texas-and-the-american-revolution/
Guest Henry Wiencek explores the deep contradictions and equally varied representations of John D. Rockefeller, the self-made millionaire whose name became synonymous with industry and free enter...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-59-john-d-rockefeller-and-the-standard-oil-company/
In picking up where Episode 57 left off, guest Shahrzad Ahmadi describes the tragic turn of events that sent shockwaves through the nascent Islamic community, and that continue to reverberate tod...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-58-islams-first-civil-war/
Nearly every world history textbook on the market explains the origins of sectarianism in the Islamic world as a dispute over the succession to Muhammad. It seems simple—but was it?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-57-the-succession-to-muhammad/
Guest Michelle Daneri helps us understand contemporary thinking about the ways that Spanish and Native Americans exchanged ideas, knowledge, and adapted to each others' presence in the Southwest.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-56-the-pueblo-revolt-of-1680/
Guest Brian Levack explains that medieval accusations of witchcraft are not supernatural at all, but based in the human need to explain the ordinary cycles of birth, death, sickness, wellness, an...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-55-witch-hunting-in-early-modern-europe/
Daina Ramey Berry, from UT's Department of History, and Leslie Harris, from Emory University, have spent the past year collaborating on a new study aimed at re-discovering this forgotten aspect o...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-54-urban-slavery-in-the-antebellum-united-states/
Guest Francesca Consagra helps us make connections across centuries and genres and underscores our complex relationships to cats and dogs, revealing the many ways in which they say as much about ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-53-cats-and-dogs-in-history/
Ann Twinam from UT's Department of History discusses three of the major Mesoamerican civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec (Mexica), and their once-forgotten contributions to human civilizati...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-52-the-precolumbian-civilizations-of-mesoamerica/
Fred M. Donner has spent much of his career studying the earliest history of Islam. He offers his hypothesis on what the early Islamic community may have looked like, and describes an exciting ne...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-51-islams-enigmatic-origins/
Guest Carla Kaplan, author of Miss Anne in Harlem: White Women of the Harlem Renaissance, joins us to talk about the ways white women crossed both racial and gender lines during this period of bl...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-50-white-women-of-the-harlem-renaissance/
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...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-49-the-harlem-renaissance/
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 app...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-48-indian-ocean-trade-and-european-dominance/
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 ...
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 to...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-46-ukraine-and-russia/
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...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-45-an-iranian-intellectual-visits-israel/
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 ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-44-climate-change-and-world-history/
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.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-43-segregating-pop-music/
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 ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-42-the-senses-of-slavery/
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 paradoxe...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-41-the-myth-of-race-in-america/
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 latte...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-40-developing-the-amazon/
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 Revol...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-39-the-royal-proclamation-of-1763/
Guest Chris Dietrich explains the origins of the oil crisis and the ways it shifted international relations in its wake.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-38-the-international-energy-crisis-of-1973/
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 turbulen...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-37-the-ottoman-balkans/
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 t...
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 ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-35-the-egyptian-revolution/
Guest Michelle Daneri from UT's Department of History helps us sort through the political forces that brought Andrew Jackson to office, and the long lasting impact of his presidency.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-34-the-social-legacy-of-andrew-jackson/
In this second of a two-part episode, guest James M. Vaughn walks us through the long and often painful process that took our founding fathers to the decision to split off from the world's most p...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-33-the-american-revolution-in-global-context-part-2/
Guest James M. Vaughn helps us understand the little known international context of a well-known national moment, pondering questions of politics, economics, and ideas that transcend national bou...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-32-the-american-revolution-in-global-context-part-i/
Carter Vaughn Findley has spent a career working on the Turkic peoples and helps us trace their long migration from the Gobi to the Bosphorus, adapting, absorbing, and transforming themselves and...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-31-who-are-the-turks/
Guest Denise A. Spellberg sheds light on a little known facet of American history: our earliest imaginings of the Islamic world, and comes to some surprising conclusions about the extent of relig...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-30-thomas-jeffersons-quran/
Guest Thomas Garza takes us on the trail of vampires from their eleventh century origins to the days of Stoker, Harris, and Meyer, and helps us learn a thing or two about how society copes with i...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-29-the-slavic-vampire/
In this supernatural-themed episode (just in time for Halloween!), guest Brian Levack talks about his research into the deeper social causes and meanings of alleged “demonic possessions” in e...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-28-demonic-possession-in-early-modern-europe/
Guest Barbara Petzen returns to walk us through the cobbled lanes of Istanbul, past bath houses and coffee houses, to help us look at the Ottoman Empire as a nuanced, complex, and changing entity...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-27-history-of-the-ottoman-empire-part-2/
Guest Barbara Petzen helps to shed some light on the origins and rise of the empire that rivaled Europe for centuries.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-26-history-of-the-ottoman-empire-part-i/
An overview of the history of Mexican Migration to the U.S. since 1848.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-25-mexican-migration-to-the-u-s/
In the second half of a two part podcast, guest and co-host Christopher Rose from UT’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies discusses the lingering effects of 20th century European imperialism in ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-24-european-imperialism-in-the-middle-east-part-2/
In this first of a two part podcast, guest and co-host Christopher Rose from UT’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies walks us through the beginnings of European imperialism in the Middle East.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-23-european-imperialism-in-the-middle-east-part-1/
In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. Civil War: what truly led the Union to break up and turn on itself?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-22-causes-of-the-u-s-civil-war-part-2/
In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. Civil War: what truly led the Union to break up and turn on itself?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-21-causes-of-the-u-s-civil-war-part-1/
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 settl...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-20-reconstruction/
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, event...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-19-inside-the-indian-independence-movement/
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 ...
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...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-17-the-buddha-and-his-time/
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 discusse...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-16-the-first-illegal-aliens/
Guest Patrick Olivelle from UT’s Department of Asian Studies describes the Maurya and Gupta Empires and the flourishing period of South Asian history “between the empires.”
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-15-the-era-between-the-empires-of-ancient-india/
Guest Robert Olwell takes a deeper look to get insight into Jefferson, the workings of the Congress, and the psyche of the American colonists on the eve of revolution—plus, we’ll put that who...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-14-early-drafts-of-the-declaration-of-independence/
Guest Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra from UT’s Department of History discusses the intricacies of Simón Bolívar, an enigma who is still revered and reviled two centuries after his death.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-13-simon-bolivar/
World War I ended the long-standing American policy of neutrality in foreign wars. What forces conspired to bring the United States into World War I, and what was the reaction at home and abroad?
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-12-americas-entry-in-to-world-war-i/
Guest Natalie Arsenault from UT’s Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies discusses the Haitian Revolution and its significance within the narrative of the political revolutions ...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-11-the-haitian-revolution/
Guest Miriam Bodian from UT’s Department of History separates truth from legend and reveals the intricacies of the Spanish Inquisition’s processes and inner workings.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-10-the-spanish-inquisition/
Guest Snehal Shingavi from UT’s Department of English examines the nature of British colonialism in South Asia and its lasting legacy sixty years after decolonization.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-9-the-end-of-colonialism-in-south-asia/
Historian Jeremi Suri discusses the beginnings of the Cold War, its origins in the “unfinished business” of World War II, and the ways that it changed the United States in just five short yea...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-8-america-and-the-beginnings-of-the-cold-war/
In the second episode discussing the tumultuous year 1917 in Russia, we examine the reasons for the failure of the February Revolution (discussed in Episode 1).
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-7-russias-october-1917-revolution/
Guest Natalie Arsenault from the University of Chicago explores the oft-ignored impact of the slave trade on other parts of the Americas.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-6-effects-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-on-the-americas/
Guest Chloe Ireton looks at the intriguing history of maps as propaganda and the role of two publishing houses not only in rewriting the history of the Mexican-American war, but in influencing th...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-5-mapping-perspectives-of-the-mexican-american-war/
In this episode, we’ll examine some of the lesser known Founding Fathers, and examine the ranges of opinions they held about issues from slavery to states’ rights and their opinions on the fo...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-4-perspectives-of-the-founding-fathers/
This episode provides an overview of the Scramble for Africa and how the 1885 Berlin Conference changed European colonialism on the continent.
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-3-the-scramble-for-africa/
In this episode, we tackle “that pesky standard” in the Texas World History course that requires students to understand the development of “radical Islamic fundamentalism and the subsequent...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-2-islamic-extremism-in-the-modern-world/
Guest Joan Neuberger from UT’s Department of History discusses the long-simmering causes of the revolution and discontent in Russia, and what finally lit the spark that caused the uprising that...
https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-1-the-february-revolution-of-1917/