Host: Joan Neuberger, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these women because their behavior didn’t conform to the picture we have of the patriarchal culture of […]
15 Minute History
Episode 119: Beatlemania and the 55th Anniversary of the First Beatles Tour to the US
Host: Augusta Dell’Omo, Department of History Guest: Eddie Watson, Department of History The Beatles arrived for their first concert in the United States on February 11, 1964 to rabid fanfare. Legions of screaming women greeted John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr on every stop of the U.S. tour, leading to observers dubbing […]