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15 Minute HistoryA podcast for educators, students, and history buffs SearchMain menu Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Podcast Index Speaker Index Subject Guides About Us DONATE Episode 88: The Search for Family Lost in Slavery Posted on October 19, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: Heather Andrea Williams, Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

One of the most callous and tragic aspects of slavery in the United States was the slave owners practice of dividing families: children were taken from parents, husbands and wives were separated, brothers and sisters too. Why was this practice initiated? How did it impact families? Did the slaveowners feel any responsibility or remorse? And, after the Civil War, how did families scattered across the south try to reconnect?

Our guest today, Heather Andrea Williams, Presidential Professor and Professor ofAfricana Studies, has written a moving book about on the subject, Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.

Editors note: this is a much longer episode than normal, however we have decided to leave the interview in its entirety. So, for this week, we are 50 Minute History!

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Posted in 18th Century / American Revolution, 19th Century, Podcast, US History by Time Period | Tagged african-american, families, family, heather andrea williams, joan neuberger, slave, slavery, united states Episode 87: Nigerias Civil War & The Origins of American Humanitarian Interventions Posted on September 27, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Samantha Rose Rubino, UT School of Law Guest: Brian McNeil, Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, UT-Austin

Humanitarian intervention has become such an accepted part of international relations, and our news headlines are full of stories about humanitarian efforts from the Balkans in the 1990s to Syria today. But it wasnt always the case the concept of humanitarian intervention originates at a specific time and place, as todays guest explains.

Brian McNeilspecializes in history of United States foreign relations, and is currently revising his book manuscript titled, Frontiers of Need: the Nigerian Civil War and the Origins of American Humanitarian Intervention, the subject of this episode.

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Posted in 1914 AD - present, 20th Century, 21st Century, Podcast, Sub-Saharan Africa, US History by Time Period, World History by Region, World History by Time Period Episode 86: Rethinking the Agricultural Revolution Posted on September 7, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Christopher Rose, Department of History Guest: Rachel Laudan, independent scholar

Thousands of years before recorded human history, anthropologists have traced the evolution of human society from a nomadic hunter-gatherer phase to the rise of agricultural practices, which allowed people to stay settled in one place, form complex societies, and ultimately early civilizations. This transition, it is said, was so momentous that it has become known as the Agricultural Revolution. A few decades ago, however, a scholar posited that humans lost leisure time in the process, becoming virtual slaves to their new agricultural lifestyles that required hours of maintenance daily. This counterargument declared that the Agricultural Revolution was nothing less than the greatest disaster to ever befall mankind.

Not so fast, says our guest this week. Rachel Laudan, a renowned food historian and author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History, argues that this thesis, which has found a champion in Jared Diamondsbest-selling Guns, Germs & Steel, fails to take food preparation into account. Our interview offers a different perspective and raises some new questions about the social impact of the beginnings of agriculture.

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Posted in Podcast Episode 85: Brexit Posted on August 24, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Christopher Rose, Department of History Guest: Philippa Levine,Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities; Co-Director, Program in British Studies

On June 23, 2016, British voters stunned many political observers (if not themselves) by voting to leave the European Union. To many outside observers, the election result was unthinkable, provoking a major political shakeup in the UK as well as an identity crisis within the EU. The factors that led Britains electorate to reject the EU, however, are rooted in decades of uneasy alliance with former rivals and enemies in the European bloc.

Philippa Levine from UTs Department of History and Program in British Studies walks us through the contemporary British politics and rocky history of Britain and the EU that contributed to this historic decision.

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Posted in 1914 AD - present, Podcast, Western Europe, World History by Region, World History by Time Period | Tagged Boris Johnson, Charles de Gaulle, christopher rose, Conservative Party ("Tories" - UK political party), David Cameron, Eire (Republic of Ireland), england, European Common Market, European Community, European Union, great britain, Labour Party (UK political party), Margaret Thatcher, philippa levine, scotland, Theresa May, UKIP (UK political party), wales Episode 84: Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shooting Posted on August 1, 2016 by jn324 Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1966, twenty-five year old student Charles Whitman killed 16 people and wounded at least 32more at UT Austin. A former Marine sharpshooter, he wentto the 28th-floor observation deckof the UT Tower and began shootingpeople on the ground as they walked by or tried to hide. A news cameraman set up a camera under the tower so the shooting was broadcast on television. Several police officers and a recently retired Air Force officer made their way to the top of the tower not knowing what they would find and, after the rampage had lasted 96 minutes, Houston McCoy and Ramiro Martinez killed the sniper. Later it was found that Whitman had killedhis mother and wife in the early hours of the morning.

These events were seared into the memory of everyone living in Austin, but historians have neglected the story and, for decades, the university avoided and eventually suppressed it. A small plaque on a hard to locate rock was only erected in 2008. Why?

In Spring 2016, as the fiftieth anniversary neared, graduate students in the UT History Departments Public History seminar led byJoan Neubergerdecided to make the history of the tower shooting more widely available and accessible to the public. They examined documents in local archives and wrote a collection of historical essays on many important aspects of that days events, as well as on the historical context, and the aftermath. And they put these essays on a website.In this episode, Neuberger discusses the project with four of those students: Itza Carbajal, Maria Hammack, Rebecca Johnston, and John Lisle.

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Posted in 20th Century, Podcast, Texas History, US History by Time Period | Tagged Austin, Charles Whitman, crime, gun, Houston McCoy, Itza Carbajal, joan nebuerger, John Lisle, Larry Faulkner, Maria Hammack, mass murder, murder, Paul Philippe Cret, Ramiro Martinez, Rebecca Johnston, shooting, texas, university of texas at austin, violence Episode 83: Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex Posted on May 11, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Joan Neuberger, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin Guest: Judith Coffin, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most important intellectuals, feminists, and writers of the 20th century. Her life and writings defied the expectations of her birth into a middle class French family, and her philosophies inspired others, including Betty Friedan. Her seminal work, The Second Sex, is a dense two volume work that can be intimidating at first glance, combining philosophy and psychology, and her own observations.

Fortunately, Judith Coffin from UTs Department of History, is here to help contextualize and parse out the context, influences, and impact of one of the 20th centurys greatest feminist works.

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Posted in 1914 AD - present, Podcast, Western Europe, World History by Region, World History by Time Period | Tagged albert camus, betty friedan, claude lanzmann, existentialism, feminism, france, hegel, jean-paul sartre, joan neuberger, judith coffin, levi-strauss, nelson algren, philosophy, simone de beauvoir, world war II Episode 82: What Writing Can Tell Us About the Arabs before Islam Posted on April 27, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Christopher Rose,Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Ahmad al-Jallad, University of Leiden

In most world history survey courses, Arabia is introduced for the first time only as backstory to the rise of Islam. Were told that there was a tradition of oral poetry in Arabic, a language native to central Arabia, and that the Quran was the zenith of this oral tradition. New evidence, however, suggests that Arabia was linguistically diverse, that the language weve come to know as Arabic originated in modern day Jordan, and that the looping cursive writing system thats become the languages hallmark wasnt the original system used to write it. What to make of all this?

Guest Ahmad al-Jallad co-directs archaeological/epigraphic projects inJordan and Saudi Arabia, uncovering new inscriptions thousands of years old, and shares his research thats shedding new light on the writings of a complex civilization that lived in the Arabian peninsula for centuries before Islam arose.

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Posted in 500 BC - 600 AD, North Africa / SW Asia, Podcast, World History by Region, World History by Time Period | Tagged ahmad al-jallad, alphabet, arabia, arabic, aramaic, Babylon, christopher rose, inscriptions, language, Neponitus, prehistory, saudi arabia, Sheba, syria, writing, yemen Episode 81: The Trans Pacific Silver Trade and Early-Modern Globalization Posted on April 13, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Kristie Flannery, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Ashleigh Dean, Assistant Professor of Asian History, Monmouth University

With the establishment of Manila as a Spanish trading port in 1571, one of the most important economic links in the pre-modern world was established. Spanish silver flowed from the mines of Potos (in modern Bolivia) through Manila to Ming-dynasty China. The interplay between these two empires created a global financial system that linked far flungparts of the world in a way that mirrors the 20th century phenomenon that has become known as globalization.

Guest Ashleigh Dean just completed her doctorate in history at Emory University examining the impacts of this pre-modern trans-Pacific linkage whose far-reaching impact touched nearly every part of the globe.

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Posted in 1450 AD - 1750 AD, 16th and 17th centuries, East Asia, Latin America, Podcast, US History by Time Period, Western Europe, World History by Region, World History by Time Period | Tagged acapulco, ashleigh dean, bolivia, california, china, economics, Francis Drake, globalization, kristie flannery, latin america, manila, manila galleon, ming dynasty, ming empire, Mongols, piracy, pirates, polynesia, portugal, Potosi, qing dynasty, rice, silver, Single Whip Reform, spain, spanish empire, tax, trade Episode 80: Colonial Medicine and STDs in 1920s Uganda Posted on March 30, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Samantha Rose Rubino, Department of History, UT-Austin Guest: Ben Weiss, Department of History, UT-Austin

Part of the civilizing mission of European powers in their colonies in Asia and Africa was an interest in encouraging hygiene and health among the population, according to recently established medical practices in Europe. Diseases such as cholera and plague were often targeted, but in sub-Saharan Africa, British colonial officials were especially concerned with sexually transmitted diseases (or, rather, what were assumed to be sexually transmitted diseases), which allowed colonial officials to tackle both the disease as well as what was assumed to be the licentious behavior that led to its spread.

Guest Ben Weiss has been studying the history of public health in Africa from the colonial era through to the current HIV/AIDS epidemic, and discusses these earliest encounters between indigenous Africans and European medical practitioners.

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Posted in 1914 AD - present, Podcast, Sub-Saharan Africa, World History by Region, World History by Time Period | Tagged africa, ben weiss, british empire, cholera, colonialism, imperialism, medicine, mercury, plague, public health, racism, samantha rose rubino, syphilis, uganda Episode 79: FishmealThe Superfood That Never Was Posted on March 2, 2016 by Christopher Rose Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Kristin Wintersteen, Department of History, University of Houston

After World War II, governments and international aid agencies were looking for a way to ameliorate the widespread hunger and malnutrition that populations faced in areas devastated by war, poverty, and other natural disasters. They found an unlikely suspect in fishmeal, and with it, lit up the economies of South America along the Humboldt Current. But the fish, as it turned out, had other ideas.

Guest Kristin Wintersteen has worked on the history of industry subject to the temperaments of on-again off-again current cycles in the Pacific, and how the boom and bust of one of the first superfoods has led to new discussions about global nutrition.

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