Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Francesca Consagra, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Paintings, Blanton Museum of Art Our first episode of season 3 features the curator of the exhibition In the Company of Cats … Continue reading →

Ann Twinam from UT's Department of History discusses three of the major Mesoamerican civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec (Mexica), and their once-forgotten contributions to human civilization.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Ann Twinam, Professor, Department of History It’s become more and more widely known that, before first contact with Europe, the Americas were populated by advanced civilizations with complex systems of … Continue reading →

Fred M. Donner has spent much of his career studying the earliest history of Islam. He offers his hypothesis on what the early Islamic community may have looked like, and describes an exciting new find that may shed new light on an old puzzle.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Fred M. Donner, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago The story of Islam’s beginnings have been told and retold countless times. The traditional narrative says … Continue reading →

Guest Carla Kaplan, author of Miss Anne in Harlem: White Women of the Harlem Renaissance, joins us to talk about the ways white women crossed both racial and gender lines during this period of black affirmation and political and cultural assertion.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Carla Kaplan, Professor of American Literature, Northeastern University During the explosion of African American cultural and political activity that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance, a number of white women … Continue reading →

Guest Frank Guridy joins us to discuss the multifaceted, multilayered movement that inspired a new generation of African-Americans—and other Americans—and demonstrated the importance of Black culture and its contributions to the West.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Frank Guridy, Professor, Department of History and Director, John L. Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies. In the early 20th century, an unprecedented cultural and political movement brought African-American … Continue reading →

In the late 15th century, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and conquered the Indian Ocean, bringing the rich trade under the direct control of the crowned heads of Europe and their appointed Indian Ocean Trading Companies. Or did he? Did Europe ever really come to dominate the 90,000 year old trade, […]