15 Minute History
The University of Texas at Austin
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.
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.
Episodes
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Oct 21, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 74: The Changsha Rice Riots of 1910
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.
Oct 7, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 73: The Borderlands War, 1915-20
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.
Sep 23, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 72: Roundtable – Antiquities in Danger
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 danger around the world.
Sep 9, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 71: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
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.
Aug 26, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 70: Slavery and Abolition in Iran
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 with the human trade.
May 27, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 69: The Amateur Photography Movement in the Soviet Union
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.
May 13, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 68: The Russian Empire on the Eve of World War 1
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 first global war.
Apr 29, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why
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 that with translators of the Jewish Bible over the centuries.
Mar 25, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 66: Operation Intercept
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 the southern border.
Mar 5, 2015 • 0sec
Episode 65: Darwinism and the Scopes “Monkey Trial”
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 Dayton, Tennessee, in the 1920s.
