The AskHistorians Podcast
The AskHistorians Mod Team
The AskHistorians Podcast showcases the knowledge and enthusiasm of the AskHistorians community, a forum of nearly 1.4 million history academics, professionals, amateurs, and curious onlookers. The aim is to be a resource accessible to 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 commonly covered topics. Part of the drive behind the podcast is to be a counterpoint to other forms of popular media on history which only seem to cover the same couple of topics in the same couple of ways over and over again.
Episodes
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Jun 23, 2018 • 47min
AskHistorians Podcast 114 - Tribes, Tribalism, and Nationality in Africa w/Commustar
Today we talk with Max (AKA u/Commustar on Reddit) about tribes, tribalism, and nationality in Africa. You can find the discussion thread here.
Jun 8, 2018 • 1h 5min
AskHistorians Podcast 113 - The History of Medicine, Diagnosis, and the Body with Dr. Adam Rodman of Bedside Rounds
Today on the AskHistorians Podcast we are joined by Dr Adam Rodman of the BedsideRounds Podcast! Prepare for the ultimate crossover episode as we discuss the history of the body, of medicine, and of physicians. This is a great episode and please enjoy it, love it, rate and review it! You can find Adam @AdamRodmanMD and his podcast at http://bedside-rounds.org/. Discussion thread is here. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
May 25, 2018 • 51min
AskHistorians Podcast 112 - Eye of the Tsar
Today we're talking about the ways in which 17th and 18th century Russia gathered intelligence on the Far East with Professor Gregory Afinogenov, who is currently Assistant Professor of Russian Imperial History at the University of Georgetown. He's on Twitter as @athenogenes.
May 11, 2018 • 1h 12min
AskHistorians Podcast 111 -- Speak Ill of the Dead -- Early Modern English Death Culture and the Epitaph
Today we are joined by /u/amandycat, who is flaired on AskHistorians as Early Modern English Death Culture, which has to be one of the more stark and interesting flairs we have on the subreddit. She is better known to her friends and family as Amanda Brunton, a PhD student at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Today we discuss all sorts of interesting and morbid things, like deaths, funerals, and how people liked to talk shade about the dead. An hour on the culture and history surrounding death and death culture in Early Modern England and it's not even Halloween! © 2019 Brian M. Watson
Apr 28, 2018 • 59min
AskHistorians Podcast 110 - Marxist Historiography and Contemporary Academia with w/CommieSpaceInvader
In today's episode we talk with u/CommieSpaceInvader about Marxist historiography and contemporary academia. This episode isn't a systematic analysis of the Marxist school within History so much as it is a broader reflection on the evolution of Marxist historiography and the ways it is perceived in contemporary academia and beyond.
Apr 13, 2018 • 47min
The AskHistorians Podcast 109 - Dunkirk - The Dawn of the Second World War
Today we are joined by a member from the AskHistorians Community, /u/Coinsinmyrocket, flaired as Mid-20th Century Military | Naval History . He is joining us today to talk about the Phoney War, which touches on Dunkirk but also surrounds several of the events around it. Also included: discussion about the recent *Dunkirk* movie! Discussion thread here © 2019 Brian M. Watson
Mar 31, 2018 • 47min
AskHistorians Podcast 108 - Poor Whites in the Antebellum American South
Today we chat with Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt about the topic of her new book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Dr. Merritt is on Twitter as @KeriLeighMerrit and her professional website is https://kerileighmerritt.com. You can join the discussion on the subreddit here.
Mar 16, 2018 • 41min
The AskHistorians Podcast 107 - The Bigfoot Story - Origins, Legends, and Speculation
Today we are lucky to be joined by /u/depanneur, who is flaired on AskHistorians as Pre-Norman Ireland & European Fascism until 1945. He is better known to his friends and family as Pat Reed, and he is a Masters Student at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in Medieval Studies. Today’s episode is a superb micro history of a macro topic-Bigfoot. Where does he come from? Where does he go? The world has questions but our guest today has answers. Discussion thread is here. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
Mar 2, 2018 • 56min
AskHistorians Podcast 106 - Marijuana in the USA: Between Legalization and Criminalization
Today we talk with Dr. Emily Dufton, author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America. We talk about the decades long struggle between proponents of legalizing marijuana and those who defend laws criminalizing its possession and use. (56 min) You can find our guest on Twitter as @emily_dufton.
Feb 16, 2018 • 1h 6min
The AskHistorians Podcast 105 -- Scientists, Philosophers, and the Royal Society - The History of Creationism
Today we have on /u/link0007, better known as Lukas Wolf, who is flaired on AskHistorians for 18th Century Newtonian Philosophy. This is an interesting and in depth episode because it talks about a couple of fields that do not get a lost of interest--history of philosophy and history of science. In this episode Lukas describes how the early scientists dealt with the questions of where god was in the research they were doing, and how creationism plays into early scientific arguments. We also cover Robert Boyle, David Hume, the Royal Society (the first scientific organization) and many more interesting people. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
