Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: James M. Vaughn, Assistant Professor, Department of History Every veteran of high school American history knows that the rallying cry of the American revolution was “No taxation without representation!” But … Continue reading →

Guest James M. Vaughn helps us understand the little known international context of a well-known national moment, pondering questions of politics, economics, and ideas that transcend national boundaries.

Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: James M. Vaughn, Assistant Professor, Department of History. Every year, Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, which commemorates our successful revolution against British colonial rule. It’s an important national moment—but it’s … Continue reading →

Carter Vaughn Findley has spent a career working on the Turkic peoples and helps us trace their long migration from the Gobi to the Bosphorus, adapting, absorbing, and transforming themselves and the societies they interact with along the way.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Carter Vaughn Findley, Humanities Distinguished Professor in History, The Ohio State University Over the past two thousands years, the Turkic peoples have migrated and expanded from a small group … Continue reading →

Guest Denise A. Spellberg sheds light on a little known facet of American history: our earliest imaginings of the Islamic world, and comes to some surprising conclusions about the extent of religious freedoms envisioned by one of the key founding fathers.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past & Professor, Department of History Guest: Denise A. Spellberg, Professor, Department of History In 2006, Keith Ellison, a newly elected congressman from the state of Minnesota, and the first Muslim elected to Congress, … Continue reading →

Guest Thomas Garza takes us on the trail of vampires from their eleventh century origins to the days of Stoker, Harris, and Meyer, and helps us learn a thing or two about how society copes with its deepest fears along the way.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Thomas Garza, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & Texas Language Center Long before Bill and Sookie, Bella and Edward, there was the upyr’, a mythical creature that caused … Continue reading →

In this supernatural-themed episode (just in time for Halloween!), guest Brian Levack talks about his research into the deeper social causes and meanings of alleged “demonic possessions” in early modern Europe.