Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Assistant Professor, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Fordham University Most Americans probably associate the 1973 oil crisis with long lines at their neighborhood gas stations, but those … Continue reading →

Guest Mary Neuburger walks us through current historical thinking about the five hundred year legacy of Ottoman rule in southeastern Europe, and gives us an alternate explanation for the turbulence of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Mary Neuburger, Professor, Department of History Southeastern Europe, or the Balkans, grabbed headlines in the 1990s after the collapse of communism with the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the bloody … Continue reading →

Guest Joseph Parrott helps us understand the system of "separateness" that dominated the lives of South Africans of all races for so long, and introduces us to the key organizations and players that fought against it and finally dismantled it.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History Guest: Joseph Parrott, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History With the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, attention turned once again to the conditions that brought him international acclaim as the first black … Continue reading →

Guest Sahar F. Aziz helps us understand the political earthquakes in Egypt's bumpy transition from authoritarian rule to what comes next, and sheds light on what it might take for the country to arrive at the democracy its people demanded in the streets.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Sahar F. Aziz, Associate Professor, Texas A&M School of Law, Fort Worth, TX The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 captivated the imagination of pro-democracy activists worldwide and turned the name … Continue reading →

Guest Michelle Daneri from UT's Department of History helps us sort through the political forces that brought Andrew Jackson to office, and the long lasting impact of his presidency.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Michelle Daneri, Doctoral Student, Department of History Andrew Jackson’s presidency marked the introduction of a real maverick to the White House: a frontiersman from Tennessee, not part of the … Continue reading →

In this second of a two-part episode, guest James M. Vaughn walks us through the long and often painful process that took our founding fathers to the decision to split off from the world's most powerful empire and go their own way.