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15 Minute History

15 Minute History


15 Minute History

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124 episodes
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English
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Podcast

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15 Minute History is a history podcast designed for historians, enthusiasts, and newbies alike. This is a joint project of Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, and Not Even Past, a website with articles on a wide variety of historical issues, produced by the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

This podcast series is devoted to short, accessible discussions of important topics in world history, United States history, and Texas history with the award winning faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, and distinguished visitors to our campus. They are meant to be a resource for both teachers and students, and can be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in history.

For more information and to hear our complete back catalog of episodes, visit our website!

Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Episode 124: The "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic 1918-1920

In the age of COVID-19 and the coronavirus, we take a look back 100 years to the last m...

23 minutes
Mar 25, 2020

Episode 123: Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

The historian Andre Gunder Frank has theorized that former colonies cannot develop econ...

23 minutes
Oct 01, 2019

Episode 122: The History of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy in the U.S.

Sexual orientation conversion therapy, the attempt to change one's sexual orientation t...

23 minutes
Sep 17, 2019

Episode 121: The Case for Women's History

In the spring of 2019, a widely circulated column assailed the field of history for bei...

24 minutes
Aug 30, 2019

Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.

Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirect...

34 minutes
Mar 29, 2019

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

The Beatles arrived for their first concert in the United States on February 11, 1964 t...

32 minutes
Mar 09, 2019

Episode 118: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet ...

23 minutes
Feb 22, 2019

Episode 117: Albert Einstein - Separating Man from Myth

The subject of endless speculation, fascination, and laudatory writings, German physici...

26 minutes
Feb 08, 2019

Episode 116: Jewish Life in 20th Century Iran

Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. At ...

24 minutes
Jan 24, 2019

Episode 115: Violent Policing on the Texas Border

Between 1910 and 1920, an era of state-sanctioned racial violence descended upon the U....

34 minutes
Jan 11, 2019