AskHistorians Episode 141 - The Sexual (Mis)Education of America and Sweden
Brian M. Watson is joined by Saniya Lee Ghanoui, PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in order to examine the intersections of media and technology studies, gender and sexualit...
19 Okt 201952min
AskHistorians Episode 140 - The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
Today we're joined by Fraser Raeburn, our very own /u/Crrpit, to talk about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War with a specific emphasis on Scottish volunteers. Who joined? Why did...
6 Sep 201951min
AskHistorians Episode 139 - Bibliography of the Damned, on books and the Reformation, w/Robert M. Sarwark
Today we're joined by Robert M. Sarwark, Visiting Fellow in Publishing History at Harvard University's Houghton Library, to talk about librarianship and his research into the history of the book durin...
21 Juni 20191h
AskHistorians Episode 138 - Red Meat Republic, a commodity history of beef in America, w/Professor Joshua Specht
Today we're joined by Professor Joshua Specht of Monash University to talk about his new book Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2019)....
10 Juni 201944min
AskHistorians Podcast 137 -- 'What It Means To Be A Part Of America:' Dr. Eric Rauchway on Politics and Economics of the Depression and the New Deal
Today we have Dr. Eric Rauchway, a professor at the University of California, Davis. Professor Rauchway has expertise on U.S. policy, social, and economic history from the Civil War through the Second...
23 Maj 201952min
AskHistorians Podcast 136 - Clothing, Status, and Race in Colonial Lima
On today's episode we're talking with Professor Tamara Walker (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto), about her book Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing and Status in Colonial Lima...
12 Maj 201948min
AskHistorians Podcast 135 -- Historians and their Craft: Truth, Reconciliation and Bias
In another return visit, Doug Priest, /u/TenMinuteHistory stops by! You can last hear him on Episode 95 talking about the revolution before the revolution in Russia and Episode 86 where we talked ab...
27 Apr 20191h 11min
AskHistorians Podcast 134 - The Adjunctification of Academic Life
Today on the pod we're chatting with (tenured) Professor Daniel Bessner about the adjunctification of academic life: both its impact on academia and ways that people are fighting back. You can foll...
13 Apr 201947min
