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The AskHistorians Podcast showcases the knowledge and enthusiasm of the AskHistorians community, a forum of nearly 1.4 million history academics, professionals, amateurs, and curious onlookers. The aim is to be a resource accessible to a wide range of listeners for historical topics which so often go overlooked. Together, we have a broad array of people capable of speaking in-depth on topics that get half a page on Wikipedia, a paragraph in a high-school textbook, and not even a minute on th ...
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 221: Historically Informed Performance with The Australian Haydn Ensemble
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Tyler Alderson talks with members of the Australian Haydn Ensemble about historical performance in classical music. From instruments to techniques, the ensemble aims to play the music of the 18th century the way that composers like Haydn and Mozart would have heard it. 39m
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 220 - Crusades Historiography with James Currie
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Steelcan909 talks with James Currie about the recent proliferation of books about the crusades written by conservative Catholic writers and their sympathizers. Two books are examined for their ideaological dimensions and what they say about the crusades and their reception almost 1000 years after their events. Warning signs for biased history books…
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 219 – The Japanese-American Experience during and after the Second World War with Mitch Maki
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Jeremy Salkeld talks with Dr. Mitch Maki of the Go For Broke National Education Center about Japanese-American internment, the 442nd Infantry Regiment, and the Japanese-American campaign for redress and recognition in the postwar decades. Also discussed are relations between Hawaiian-born and continental-born Japanese-Americans, and the efforts of …
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 218 - Public History in the 21st Century with Claire Aubin
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Morgan Lewin Campos chats with Dr Claire Aubin (@ceaubin on Twitter) about the challenges of studying fascism and violence in the current global political climate, as well as the problems sensationalistic and revisionistic historical writing creates for public history. (68 mins)
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 217 - "Say Anarcha" with J. C. Hallman
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We're back! Jennifer Borgioli Binis (EdHistory101) talks with J. C. Hallman, author of "Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health." Heads up that the episode talks about some of the experiences enslaved women had with J. Marion Sims, who had been long credited as "the father of gynocology." They…
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 216 - YouTube, Film, and History with Atun-Shei Films
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Steelcan909 talks with Andrew Rakich from Atun-Shei Films about the role of YouTube in public historical outreach, filmaking, and the comments sections that you dread to look at. 79 minutes.
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 215 - Golems with HannahStoHelit
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Tyler Alderson talks to fellow moderator u/hannahstohelit about golems, their origins in Jewish mysticism and folklore, and the various depictions of them throughout the years. 81m.
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 214 - YouTube and History with DW Draffin
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Steelcan909 sits down to talk about YouTube, Hollywood, and Netflix with DW Draffin, operator of the YouTube Channel "Study of Antiquty and the Middle Ages". 65 mins
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 213 - The World The Plague Made with James Belich
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Tyler Alderson talks with Professor James Belich of Balliol College, Oxford about the dramatic aftereffects of the Black Death. From the immediate shocks to the lingering ripples centuries later, Belich shows the influence that this unimaginable calamity had on shaping the world as we know it, including the rise of colonialism and the Atlantic slav…
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 212 – Public Transport in North America with Jake Berman
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Jeremy Salkeld talks with Jake Berman about the development of public transport in the US and Canada, and the background to the US' modern issues with urban transport infrastructure, including the rise and fall of the streetcar and difficulties with establishing light and underground rail systems. Also discussed is the idea that there is not so muc…
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