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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Jul 16, 2017 • 56min
AskHistorians Podcast 090 – La Peste! The Great Plague of Marseille
On today's episode we have Professor Cindy Ermus, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge, explaining the Plague of Marseille in terms of the (relatively) new field of Disaster History. (56 min) You can find the discussion thread on the subreddit here.
Jun 30, 2017 • 1h 31min
AskHistorians Podcast 089 - AskHistorians at the NCPH
This podcast is a recording of the AskHistorians presentation at the National Council of Public History this past April. You can read the full-text of the speeches here: https://redd.it/682ta1 As usual, here is the discussion thread for the episode on the AskHistorians subreddit. You can read our papers here: https://askhistorians.com/conferences/ncph2017.html
Jun 17, 2017 • 37min
AskHistorians Podcast 088 - The Battle of Jutland, Part 2
In this concluding episode, we discuss the aftermath and fall-out from the Battle of Jutland, including the debate over the actions of the British commanders of the Grand Fleet. Also included is discussion over whether British ship designs at the time were flawed, leading to increased casualties. We conclude by putting the role of the battleship in naval warfare, particularly after WWI, in context. (37min)
Jun 2, 2017 • 51min
AskHistorians Podcast 087 - The Battle of Jutland, Part 1
In this first of two episodes we cover the lead-up and ultimately the clash between battleships at Jutland. We discuss the changing technologies and tactics of naval warfare at the time, before moving on to the battle itself. (51min)
May 22, 2017 • 35min
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 86A - [Unedited] Bonus Episode - Doug and Brian Debate Postmodernism.
Join us for a special bonus episode in conjunction with our Weekly Monday Methods threads where we discuss theory, history and the practice of historians. This is an extra little bit of our last episode where we spent some time debating postmodernism, where history is today, and where we go from here. (34m) Come join us in the discussion here! © 2019 Brian M. Watson
May 19, 2017 • 1h 17min
AskHistorians Podcast 086 - So You Wanna Be A Historian - Historical Thought, Methods, Historiography, and the Historians Toolbox
Doug Priest (/u/TenMinuteHistory) gives an absolutely fascinating and in-depth look at the 'meta' of history--that is, a conversation on historiography and historical thinking. This is an episode that will be really focused on the nuts and bolts of doing history and how historians think and the places they come from. You can consider it your own personal grad school theory crash course! This week's podcast will be followed by a special bonus episode on Monday in our weekly Monday Methods thread, so please check back and join us there! Visit our guest at www.tenminutehistory.com (77m) Join us for a discussion on AskHistorians! © 2019 Brian M. Watson
May 3, 2017 • 1h 39min
AskHistorians Podcast 085 - In Search of the Taino
Antonio Curet, archaeologist and curator at the Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, DC, talks with us about the Taíno civilization of the Greater Antilles. (99min) Please leave us your thoughts and questions in the discussion thread in the subreddit, which can be found here.
Apr 15, 2017 • 36min
AskHistorians Podcast 084 - The Salem Witch Trials and Social Network Analysis
Dan Howlett discusses the Salem Witch Trials and his approach to them using social network analysis. While the focus of the episode is on a digital humanities approach to historical research, the episode also covers the underlying social and political tensions, as well as the general atmosphere of paranoia, in the Salem area at the time. (36min)
Mar 31, 2017 • 59min
AskHistorians Podcast 083 - The European Armoring Guilds and People 1300-1600
In part two of a two-part series on the European Armoring Industry, WARitter joins us to discuss just exactly how the knights in shining armor got their shining armor. Wrapping up from a discussion of how exactly metal ore was transformed into armor, WARitter takes us onwards through a whirlwind tour of the history of the guilds, peoples and places that made up the armoring industry, and how armoring eventually declined and fell. (58m) Visit us at AskHistorians to discuss this podcast! © 2019 Brian M. Watson
Mar 17, 2017 • 35min
AskHistorians Podcast 082 - The European Armoring Industry and Techniques 1300-1600
In part one of a two-part series on the European Armoring Industry, WARitter joins us to discuss just exactly how the knights in shining armor got their shining armor. The first half of this two part series explores the techniques and the strategies from turning raw ore into beautiful armor, and how some of these techniques shifted over time. Next episode will bring an hour-plus long discussion on the entire arc of the armoring industry history—and the families, cities, and people that built it. (35m) For further discussion, come visit us at AskHistorians here. © 2019 Brian M. Watson
