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This is Democracy – Lebanon Wars

This is Democracy – Banking and Democracy

This is Democracy – Hubert Humphrey & Civil Rights

This is Democracy – Presidential Debates

This is Democracy – How Congress Works

This is Democracy – New School Year

This is Democracy – Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Political Conventions

This is Democracy – Venezuela Elections

15 Minutes History – US China relations in the 1970s

15 Minutes History – The Court Packing Crisis

15 Minutes History – Black Labor in Boston

This is Democracy – Supreme Court Reforms

This is Democracy – Reforming Democracy

This is Democracy – Political Violence

This is Democracy – British Elections

This is Democracy – Supreme Court

This is Democracy – Mexican Elections

This is Democracy – European Democracies

This is Democracy – D-Day and Its Legacies

This is Democracy – Free Trade and Peace

This is Democracy – China’s Domestic and Foreign Policy

This is Democracy – Campus Protests

15 Minutes History – Student Protests

15 Minutes History – Glen Canyon and Water Infrastructure

15 Minutes History – World War I and the Hapsburg Empire

15 Minutes History – Partisanship in the Revolutionary Era

This is Democracy – Political Disillusionment

This is Democracy – Indian Elections

This is Democracy – Media and Politics

This is Democracy – Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Disinformation

This is Democracy – Humanitarian Intervention

This is Democracy – Collective Trauma

This is Democracy – Evangelicals Today

This is Democracy – Bush v Gore: The Legacy.

This is Democracy – The Ukraine War

IHS Discussion: “Cosmology of Early Buddhism – A Mobile Hierarchy” by Xinru Liu, College of New Jersey

This is Democracy – Middle East in the 1970s and Today

This is Democracy – College Campuses

15 Minutes History – Sex, Race, and Labor in French Colonialism

15 Minutes History – Jean-Paul Sartre In The Arab World

This is Democracy: Race & Opportunity in America

This is Democracy: Wildfires

This Is Democracy: Impeachment in Texas

This Is Democracy: Strikes by Autoworkers

This Is Democracy: Israel and Hamas

IHS Discussion: Loosening the Grid: Ideas for Mapping Human Experience

IHS Discussion: Overallocated and Unsettled: Critical Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Colorado River

IHS Book Roundtable: The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936

IHS Discussion: They Were There: Martin Luther King’s Visit to UT Austin in 1962

This is Democracy

This Is Democracy: Auschwitz-Birkenau

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This Is Democracy: Ukraine War

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This Is Democracy: Evangelical Religion

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This Is Democracy: Birchers and Right-Wing Extremism

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This Is Democracy: Presidential Law-Breaking

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This Is Democracy: Iraq War: Lessons and Legacies

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This is Democracy: Art of Strategy

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This Is Democracy: Jimmy Carter

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This Is Democracy: Ukraine

IHS Book Roundtable: The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

IHS Workshop: Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History

IHS Workshop: Einstein in World War I: How He Loved the Wrong Woman, Suffered a Fugitive Soldier, and Helped an Assassin

IHS Book Roundtable: Enlightenment and Geopolitics of Knowledge

IHS Workshop: “Honest, Clean, Industrious”: Working Class Respectability

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IHS Workshop: Contested Customs: Reinventing Indigenous Authority in Ubaque, New Kingdom of Granada

This is Democracy

This Is Democracy: Brazil

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This Is Democracy: FBI and J. Edgar Hoover

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This Is Democracy: Infrastructure and Indigenous Communities

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This Is Democracy: Chinese Protests

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This Is Democracy: Anti-Semitism

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This Is Democracy: Ukraine War

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This Is Democracy: Civil War by Other Means

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This Is Democracy: Can History Bring Us Together?

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This Is Democracy: The Third Reconstruction

IHS Book Roundtable: Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy

IHS Book Roundtable: Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

IHS Panel: Beyond Empire and Borderlands: How to Write a Connected History of the 19th-Century Mexican and U.S. Republics?

IHS Book Roundtable: The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

IHS Workshop: “Wherever the Flag Flies”: Conquest, Sovereignty, and Vital Records in Early Colonial Algeria

This is Democracy

This is Democracy: Gorbachev

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This is Democracy: Leadership

IHS Book Roundtable: Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – Austin’s Black History

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15 Minute History – Afro-Indigenous Histories of the US

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15 Minute History –Connected Histories of Cuba and the United States

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15 Minute History – The 1844 Philadelphia Riots

This is Democracy

This is Democracy: Ukraine

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This is Democracy: NATO

Roundtable: "The Foremothers of Women of Color Feminism"

IHS Roundtable: The Foremothers of Women of Color Feminism

IHS Talleres y Debates: Sobre Talento, Objetos, y Colonias en la Exposición “Tornaviaje” del Museo del Prado

IHS Roundtable: The 1619 Project: A Continental, Afro Latiné Perspective

IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro-Latiné/Latiné/Latin-American Archives in the United States

IHS Book Roundtable: What Belongs in Mexico’s National Museum? Two Centuries of Object Collecting, Display, and Dispersal

IHS Symposium: The Curious Case of Race in the Russian Empire

IHS Roundtable: The 1619 Project: A U.S. Perspective

IHS Podcast: E Pluribus Tria: Colonial Racial Formation in the Making of American Culture

IHS Book Roundtable: The New Faces of Neoliberal Christianity in Latin America

IHS Book Roundtable: A Time To Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

IHS Podcast: A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

Talleres y Debates: Sobre la destrucción y reconstrucción de imperios, de Hispanoamérica continental a Brasil

IHS Podcast: Against the Grain: Textile Relics and the Science of Sanctity in the Global Renaissance

IHS Podcast: The New Faces of God in Latin America

IHS Roundtable: “The Eyes of Texas”: Historians’ Perspectives on the Origins of the Song

IHS Workshop: Covarrubias’ Crossings: Picturing the New Negro and the Making of Modern Mexico

This is Democracy

This is Democracy: Vietnam War Legacies

IHS Book Talk: “Tribe and State in Global History”: The Political and Cultural Work of the Category of Tribe in the Historiographies of Asia, Americas, and Africa

IHS Panel: Prop A in the Context of Race and Policing in Austin, Texas: An Urgent Forum

IHS Podcast: Mexico’s Social Science Laboratory and the Origins of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

This is Democracy

This is Democracy: NATO Alliance

IHS Podcast: The social history of 16th and 17th century Andean “ethnographic” knowledge, bottom-up or top down?

IHS Podcast: Welcomed and then Expelled: The Plight of Chinese Mexicans from 1910 to 1960

IHS Book Talk: Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile

IHS Podcast: Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s Thesis: American Freedom, American Slavery

IHS Podcast: Hungry for Revolution

IHS Podcast: Apache Diaspora in Four Hundred Years of Colonialism vs. “Toltec Antiquities” Diaspora in Early Republican Mexico”

IHS Workshop: The Mexican Empire and Indigenous Texas, 1821-1823

This is Democracy

This is Democracy: Shadow Docket and Abortion

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This is Democracy: Cuba and Democracy in the Caribbean

IHS Podcast: From Republic of Letters and Imagined Communities to Republics of Knowledge: Knowledge in the Making of 19th Century Radical Republics in Latin America

IHS and CES Roundtable: Faith in Science: From the Boxer Rebellion to Covid 19

IHS Podcast: Faith in Science? COVID, Antivaxxers, the State, and Epistemological Power

IHS Talk: Exploring Critical Environmental Justice Conflicts from the Neighborhood to the Carceral System

IHS Book Talk: Imperial Science

IHS Panel: Oil, Water, and Climate: Environmental Histories of Texas

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – History of the Second Ku Klux Klan

IHS Book Talk: Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

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This is Democracy – Afghanistan War

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This is Democracy – Black Resistance to Slavery in Early America and its Legacies

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – Climate and Environmental History in Context

IHS Panel: The Environmental Protection Agency at the Half Century Mark, 1970-2020

IHS Roundtable: Teaching Climate Change: Perspectives from History and the Humanities

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – Black Reconstruction in Indian Territory

IHS Panel: Rodney King and the LA Riots: 30 Years Later

IHS Climate in Context Panel: Oil, Water, and Climate: Environmental Histories of Texas

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – Slavery in the West

IHS Talk: Environmental Justice in Indian Country and Moving Toward a Transformational Land Ethic

This is Democracy

This is Democracy – “The Eyes of Texas”

15 Minute History

15 Minute History – The Racial Geography Tour at U.T. Austin

This is Democracy

This is Democracy – Asian American History and Exclusion

15 Minute History – History of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

IHS Book Talk: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

15 Minute History–Postwar Lesbian History

15 Minute History – Environmental Justice and Indigenous History

IHS Talk: Confessions of a Failed Pandemic Planner

IHS Talk: Rethinking Borders in a Digital Age

IHS Climate in Context Talk: Thinking Historically About the Future of Energy and Climate

IHS Panel: Falsehood, Fury, and Subverting the Rule of Law: Four Perspectives on Recent Events

IHS Book Talk: Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789

IHS Workshop: Royal Power and a Piece of Bread: Sufi Discipleship and Dargah Worship in the Maratha Empire

IHS Climate in Context Workshop: “From Smog to Climate Change? The Precarious Precedents for Curbing Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. and Mexico

This is Democracy

This is Democracy – Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today

IHS Climate in Context Talk: Ancient Trees in Modern Times

IHS Book Talk: Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir

IHS Book Talk: Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage

IHS Climate in Context Talk: Climate, Migration, and Plague in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

IHS Book Talk: A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965

IHS Book Talk: The Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

IHS Climate in Context Talk: Lessons From Little Ice Ages? Resilience and Complexity in Societal Responses to Climate Change

This is Democracy – From Churchill and Roosevelt to Trump and Brexit: What Have We Learned?

This is Democracy – Supreme Court Confirmations: How Have They Changed?

This is Democracy – Young JFK: Lessons for Democracy Today

Audio Archive: Spanish Flu in the Texas Oil Fields

IHS Talk: Hope, Agency and Transformation: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic and Tackling Our Planetary Emergency

IHS Panel: Socialisms in Practice: Three Twentieth-Century Cases (Socialist and Collectivist History Series)

IHS Panel: Postcolonial Socialisms in Perspective (Socialist and Collectivist History Series)

IHS Talk: The Problem of Newness: Art Cinema in India

15 Minute History – The “Spanish” Influenza of 1918-1920

Littlefield Lectures 2020: Jack E. Davis

IHS Talk: The Civil War Undercommons: Studying Revolution on the Mississippi River

15 Minute History – Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

15 Minute History – History of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy in the U.S.

15 Minute History – The Case for Women’s History

IHS Panel: From the May Fourth Movement to the Communist Revolution

Digital Resources – “The Reddest of the Blacks”

IHS Panel: Brexit in Global and Historical Context

IHS Talk: Debt: A Natural History

IHS Panel: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: 100 Years Later

IHS Talk: Climate and Soil: An Environmental History of the Maya

15 Minute History – Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.

Episode 119 – Beatlemania and the 55th Anniversary of the First Beatles Tour to the US

Episode 118: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

Episode 117: Albert Einstein – Separating Man from Myth

Episode 116: Jewish Life in 20th Century Iran

Episode 115: Violent Policing of the Texas Border

Episode 114: Slavery in Indian Territory

Episode 113: 1968 – The Year the Dream Died

IHS Panel: 1968: A Year of Upheaval in Global Perspective

Episode 112: Harvey Milk, Forty Years Later

Episode 111: The Legacy of World War I in Germany and Russia

Episode 110: The Legacy of WWI in the Balkans and Middle East

Episode 109: The Tango and Samba

Episode 108: A History of the U.S. Marine Corps

Episode 107: The Yazid Inscription

Episode 106: The Blood Libel

The Littlefield Lectures 2018: The Van and the Rear: Abolitionist Roots of Radical Reconstruction (Day 2)

The Littlefield Lectures 2018: Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction (Day 1)

IHS Talk: 50 Years Since Prague Spring: Czechoslovak Dreams and Cold War Realities

Episode 105: Slavery and Abolition

Episode 104: Foreign Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

Episode 103: French Child Ambassadors in the East

Episode 102: The “Servant Girl Annihilator”

Episode 101: The Bolshevik Revolution at 100

Legacies of the Vietnam War

Episode 100: Extravaganza Spectacular!

Watch: The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917 (Part II)

Watch: The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917 (Part I)

Episode 99: The 40 Acres During World War I

IHS Panel: DACA: Past, Present, and Future

Episode 98: Brazil’s Teatro Negro and Afro-Brazilian Identity

IHS Talk: Beyond “Crisis” and Headlines: The History of Humanity as a History of Migration

Episode 97: The Zionist Movement in Czechoslovakia

IHS Panel: The Confederate Statues at UT

Episode 96: Louis XIV’s Absolutism and the “Affair of the Poisons”

Episode 95: The Impossible Presidency

IHS Roundtable: Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years

Episode 94: Populism

Episode 93: Women and the Tamil Epics

Episode 92: Disability History in the United States

Episode 91: The History of the Family

Episode 90: Stokely Carmichael: A Life

Episode 89: Seven Skeletons

Episode 88: The Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Episode 87: Nigeria’s Civil War & The Origins of American Humanitarian Interventions

Episode 86: Rethinking the Agricultural “Revolution”

Episode 85: Brexit

Episode 84: Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shooting

Episode 83: Simone de Beauvoir and ‘The Second Sex’

Episode 82: What Writing Can Tell Us About the Arabs before Islam

Episode 81: The Trans-Pacific Silver Trade and Early-Modern Globalization

Episode 80: Colonial Medicine and STDs in 1920s Uganda

Episode 79: Fishmeal—The Superfood That Never Was

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Beyoncé as Historian: Black Power at the DPLA

The Public Historian: Quilombola Seeds

Episode 78: The U.S. and Decolonization after World War II

Episode 77: The Paris Commune

Episode 76: The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade

Episode 75: The Birmingham Qur’ān

Episode 74: The Changsha Rice Riots of 1910

Episode 73: The Borderlands War, 1915-20

Episode 72: Roundtable – Antiquities in Danger

Episode 71: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists

Episode 70: Slavery and Abolition in Iran

Episode 69: The Amateur Photography Movement in the Soviet Union

Episode 68: The Russian Empire on the Eve of World War 1

Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why

Episode 66: Operation Intercept

Episode 65: Darwinism and the Scopes “Monkey Trial”

Episode 64: Monumental Sculpture of Preclassic Mesoamerica

Episode 63: Ezra and the Compilation of the Pentateuch

Colón 2000: Tour Guides, Cruiseships, and Tourists in Panama

Episode 61: The Fatimids

Episode 60: Texas and the American Revolution

Episode 59: John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company

Episode 58: Islam’s First Civil War

Episode 57: The Succession to Muhammad

Episode 56: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Episode 55: Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe

15 Minute History

Episode 54: Urban Slavery in the Antebellum United States

Episode 53: Cats and Dogs in History

Episode 52: The Precolumbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica

Episode 51: Islam’s Enigmatic Origins

Episode 50: White Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Episode 49: The Harlem Renaissance

Episode 48: Indian Ocean Trade and European Dominance

Episode 47: Indian Ocean Trade from its Origins to the Eve of Imperialism

Episode 46: Ukraine and Russia

Episode 45: An Iranian Intellectual Visits Israel

Episode 44: Climate Change and World History

I am Tourism/Yo Soy Turismo

Episode 43: Segregating Pop Music

15 Minute History

Episode 42: The Senses of Slavery

Episode 41: The Myth of Race in America

Episode 40: Developing the Amazon

Episode 39: The Royal Proclamation of 1763

Episode 62: Sunni and Shi’a in Medieval Syria

Episode 37: The Ottoman Balkans

Episode 36: Apartheid

Episode 35: The Egyptian Revolution

Episode 34: The Social Legacy of Andrew Jackson

Episode 33: The American Revolution in Global Context, Part 2

Episode 32: The American Revolution in Global Context, Part I

Episode 31: Who are the Turks?

Episode 30: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

Episode 29: The Slavic Vampire

The Long History of the Texas Border Patrol

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