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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Aug 18, 2018 • 1h 9min
AskHistorians Podcast 118 - Liberalism and Law in 19th Century Mexico w/Dr. Timo Schaefer
Today we talk with Dr. Timo Schaefer, author of Liberalism as Utopia The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), about how Liberal projects and ideals affected the legal system in 19th century Mexico. You can find him on Twitter as @TimoHSchaefer You can find his book here.
Aug 17, 2018 • 8min
AskHistorians Aloud -- Maternity, Corsets and the Female Form
Aug 7, 2018 • 35min
The AskHistorians Podcast 117 -- Introducing AskHistorians Aloud -- Napalm, Peglegs, Castrati, and Egyptian Marriage
Today's episode is a little bit different! Instead of your regularly scheduled episode we are coming out with a preview of a new AskHistorians Podcast feature, AskHistorians Aloud! This feature is meant to bring some of the amazing work being done on the subreddit everyday to your ears here. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
Jul 20, 2018 • 1h 9min
AskHistorians Podcast 116 - Debunking 300's Battle of Thermopylae
Today we talk with Dr. Roel Konijnendijk (@Roelkonijn on Twitter) about the myths surrounding the Battle of Thermopylae in popular culture. In particular, we compare scholarship on the battle with the mid-aughts film 300, Directed by Zack Snyder.
Jul 6, 2018 • 53min
AskHistorians Podcast 115 - The Friends They Loathed - Quaker Religion and Persecution in the American Revolution
Today we talk with /u/UncoveredHistory, better known as Jason Aglietti. He is a public librarian in Baltimore and he just finished his Master's thesis from University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he wrote and defended his thesis The Friends They Loathed: The Persecution of Maryland Quakers During the Revolutionary War. Jason will tell us all about the lives of the Quakers in the American colonies from their founding to their persecution in the revolutionary war. This is NOT the history you usually hear about the revolutionary war, and Jason gives us a lot of new things to think about! Finding The Maryland 400, the history project Jason worked on and talks about can be found here. Jason's blog is here. Discussion thread. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
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.
