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Episode 40: Developing the Amazon

January 28, 2014

Guest Seth Garfield shows how a little-known chapter of World War II history illuminates the ways outsiders’ understandings of the nature of the Amazon have evolved over the course of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

December 2, 2013

For more on the Amazon and its resources in the twentieth century, take a look at these selections.

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

December 1, 2013

During World War II, the governments of Brazil and the United States made an unprecedented level of joint investment in the economy and infrastructure of the Amazon region. The dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1937-45) trumpeted the colonization and development of the Amazon (christened the “March to the West”) as a nationalist imperative to defend a sparsely settled frontier covering some sixty percent of Brazilian territory.

George Orwell: A Life in Letters (2013)

October 29, 2013

Peter Davison’s careful selection and annotation of George Orwell’s personal correspondence in provides an engrossing autobiography of a man whose work continues to resonate globally in significant ways.

Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)

October 28, 2013

At the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Wehrmacht looked hopeless.

Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

September 30, 2013

Recalling his formative years as an American baby boomer and the influence the Cold War and the Soviet Union had on his worldview, Donald Raleigh asks what life was like for people his age in the Soviet Union? What were their concerns about the future? How did they spend their time and what did Cold War ideological battles mean for their daily lives?

Handbook of African American Texas

September 4, 2013

Do you love Texas history? The Texas State Historical Association, which makes Texas history readily accessible through its Digital Gateway to Texas History, now offers a huge, new, terrific series of readings in the Handbook of African American Texas.

The Hadamar Trial: Inadequacies of Postwar Justice

July 10, 2013

The Hadamar War Crimes Case, formally known as United States of America v. Alfons Klein et al., commenced in early October of 1945 and figured as the first postwar mass atrocity trial prosecuted in the American-occupied zone of Germany.

Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: How the USS Hornet CV-8 Paved the Way to Victory at Midway

July 8, 2013

When the United States entered World War II in 1942, the Japanese fleet, led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, dominated the Pacific.

Episode 24: European Imperialism in the Middle East (part 2)

May 28, 2013

In the second half of a two part podcast, guest and co-host Christopher Rose from UT’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies discusses the lingering effects of 20th century European imperialism in the region and the transition to independence.

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