Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor, Department of History, and editor, Not Even Past Guest: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies The relationship between European, North African, and Southwest Asian nations that border the Mediterranean stretches back to antiquity and reflects … Continue reading →

In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. Civil War: what truly led the Union to break up and turn on itself?

Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: George B Forgie, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. Civil War: … Continue reading →

In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. Civil War: what truly led the Union to break up and turn on itself?

Host: Henry A. Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: George B Forgie, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of History In the century and a half since the war’s end, historians, politicians, and laypeople have debated the causes of the U.S. … Continue reading →

After the chaos of the American Civil War, Congress and lawmakers had to figure out how to put the Union back together again–no easy feat, considering that issues of political debate were settled on the battlefield, but not in the courtroom nor in the arena of public opinion. How did the defeated South and often […]

Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor of History and Editor, Not Even Past Guest: H.W. Brands, Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History, UT-Austin After the chaos of the American Civil War, Congress and lawmakers had to figure out how to put the … Continue reading →

Aarti Bhalodia discusses the push for South Asian independence from British colonial rule which resulted in the mass migration of 100 million people, one of the most pivotal, and traumatic, events of the 20th century.

Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Aarti Bhalodia, Research Associate, South Asia Institute How did an expatriate Indian lawyer who’d been living in South Africa for two decades become the leading figure in the movement … Continue reading →

Philippa Levine explains the wide-reaching effects of the eugenics movement, which at its best inspired the eradication of harmful diseases, but at its worst led to compulsory sterilization, and the horrific experiments of the Nazi death camps.