Host: Nicolás González Quintero, Ph.D. Candidate in History Guest: Lina del Castillo, Associate Professor of Latin American History The historian Andre Gunder Frank has theorized that former colonies cannot develop economically until they have overcome the legacy of their colonial past. The ways that the United States has overcome the legacy of its colonial past […]
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Episode 122: The History of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy in the U.S.
Host: Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies Guest: Chris Babits, Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow Sexual orientation conversion therapy, the attempt to change one’s sexual orientation through psychological or therapeutic practice, has now been banned in 17 American states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, three Canadian provinces, one state […]
Episode 121: The Case for Women’s History
Host: Christopher Rose, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, UT-Austin Guests: Ellen Hartigan O’Connor and Lisa Materson, Professors of History at the University of California, Davis In the spring of 2019, a widely circulated column assailed the field of history for being too “esoteric,” in particular calling out subfields like women’s and gender studies. […]
Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.
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 […]
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 […]
Episode 118: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean […]
Episode 117: Albert Einstein – Separating Man from Myth
The subject of endless speculation, fascination, and laudatory writings, German physicist Albert Einstein captured the imaginations of millions after his discoveries transformed the field of physics. Hailed as a god, saint, a miracle, and even a canonized angel by his biographers and contemporaries alike, Einstein seems a figure worthy of his larger than life status. […]
Episode 116: Jewish Life in 20th Century Iran
Episode 115: Violent Policing of the Texas Border
Between 1910 and 1920, an era of state-sanctioned racial violence descended upon the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas Rangers, local ranchers, and U.S. soldiers terrorized ethnic Mexican communities, under the guise of community policing. They enjoyed a culture of impunity, in which, despite state investigations, no one was ever prosecuted. This period left generations of Texans with […]
Episode 114: Slavery in Indian Territory
Many American Indian cultures, like the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, practiced a form of non-hereditary slavery for centuries before contact with Europeans. But after Europeans arrived on Native shores, and they forcibly brought African people into labor in the beginning of the 17th century, the dynamics of native slavery practices changed. Supporting the Confederacy during […]
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