Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past & Professor, Department of History Guest: Dominic Lieven, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; Fellow, British Academy; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge World War I is often described as “the war to end … Continue reading →

Imagine the pressures of translating a sacred text whose language is well known and imbued with religious significance and symbolism. Leonard Greenspoon from Creighton University has done just that with translators of the Jewish Bible over the centuries.

Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Leonard Greenspoon, Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations and Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University Any student of a foreign language knows that the process of translating a text can be … Continue reading →

Guest James Martin from UT’s Department of History describes the motivations for President Nixon’s historic unilateral reaction and how it affected both Americans as well as our ally across the southern border.

Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: James Martin, Doctoral Student, Department of History At 2:30 pm on Saturday September 21 1969, US president Richard Nixon announced ‘the largest peacetime search and seizure operation in history.’ Intended to … Continue reading →

Adam Shapiro from Birkbeck University describes how evolution was first received in the United States, and the debates that led up to its most famous test–the Scopes “Monkey Trial” held in Dayton, Tennessee, in the 1920s.

Host: Joan Neuberger, editor, Not Even Past Guest: Adam Shapiro, Lecturer in Cultural and Intellectual History, Birkbeck University, London Controversies over the theory of evolution are well documented in American society: according to a Gallup poll conducted in the late … Continue reading →

Professor Julia Guernsey from UT's Department of Art and Art History combines the methodology of history, art history, and archaeology to offer a new look into this mysterious period at the beginning of recorded history in the Americas.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: Julia Guernsey, Professor, Department of Art and Art History The Preclassic period of Mesoamerican history (1500 BC – 200 AD) has left fascinating historical clues about what life was like in the form … Continue reading →

Guest Richard Bautch from St Edward's University in Austin discusses current thinking about the formation of the Pentateuch during the time of Ezra.