Historias Podcast

Historias Podcast

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Historias Podcast episodes

  • Elena McGrath - The Limits of the Revolution
    En este episodio de Historias Podcast conversamos con la historiadora Elena McGrath sobre su libroThe Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City. A través dela experiencia de las familias mineras de Corocoro, McGrath examina las profundas transformaciones que siguieron a la Revolución Nacional de 1952 y la construcción del “ciudadano trabajador” como figura central del proyecto revolucionario. Hablamos de la expansión de derechos sociales, del papel de COMIBOL en la vida de trabajadores, mujeres y niños, y de las luchas de las familias mineras por defender esas conquistas. La conversación aborda también las jerarquías de género, clase y raza que atravesaron el proyecto nacionalista y el progresivo debilitamiento de la ciudadanía obrera bajo los gobiernos militares, invitándonos a repensar tanto los logros como los límites y legados de la Revolución Boliviana.
    48 min
  • Rachel Newman - The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
    En The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite (Publicado por la Universidad de California, 2026), la historiadora Rachel Grace Newman reconstruye más de un siglo de políticas de educación en el extranjero para explorar la formación de una élite mexicana cosmopolita. El libro muestra cómo estudiar en Europa y Estados Unidos funcionó a la vez como mecanismo de distinción y reproducción de jerarquías sociales y como una inversión nacional asociada a las promesas de modernización, desarrollo y progreso. Newman examina así las tensiones entre privilegio, cosmopolitismo y proyecto nacional que atravesaron más de cien años de movilidad estudiantil mexicana.
    54 min
  • Los golpes de estado en América Latina, con Sebastián Carassai y Kevin Coleman
    In March 2026, we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. To reflect
    on its significance within a broader regional frame, we speak with historians Sebastián Carassai
    and Kevin Coleman, editors of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
    Their work adopts a comparative approach across cases such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina,
    and Central America, examining the forces that drove these coups, the roles of the United States
    and local actors, and the forms of social support that sustained them. In doing so, it challenges
    the idea that these coups can be treated as a single phenomenon and instead highlights the
    distinct national dynamics that shaped authoritarian rule and its legacies.
    56 min
  • Episode VI - Resolution
    In this final episode, Renata and Dustin examine the resolution and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Michelle Paranzino, Carlos Alzugaray, James Hershberg, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Peter Kornbluh, William LeoGrande, Michelle Chase, Michael Bustamante, and Aaron Coy Moulton.
    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode V - Crisis
    In this episode, Renata and Dustin examine the Cuban Missile Crisis and its moments of greatest danger. They speak with scholars including Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Michelle Chase, James Hershberg, Peter Kornbluh,Michelle Parazino, and Lars Schoultz.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode IV - The Bay of Pigs
    In this episode, Dustin and Renata discuss the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the ways that the invasion set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with scholars including Michael Bustamante, Jonathan C. Brown, Lillian Guerra, Michelle Chase, and William LeoGrande.
    46 min
  • Episode III - Cuba in the Global Cold War
    In this episode, Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher look at the global repercussions of the Cuban Revolution, analyzing Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and the Global South. They speak to scholars including Lillian Guerra, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, William M. LeoGrande, Jonathan C. Brown, Aaron Coy Moulton, James Hershberg, Eric Gettig, Michelle Chase, and Lars Schoultz.
    48 min
  • Episode II - Defining Cuba's Revolution
    In this episode, Dustin and Renata explore the many changes that the Cuban Revolution brought to the island, as well as Cubans’reactions to those changes. We speak withMichelle Chase, Lillian Guerra, Eric Getting, and Michael Bustamante.
    58 min
  • Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher - A Cuban Story (Episode 1)
    In this episode, Dustin and Renata explain their goal for the audiodocumentary: to teach listeners about the Cuban context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Lars Schoultz, Lillian Guerra, William LeoGrande, Carlos Alzugaray, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Michael Bustamante, and Michelle Chase about the deep history of Cuba’s struggles for sovereignty that formed the backdrop of theCuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
    1 hr 2 min

About Historias Podcast

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The Historias podcast is a weekly program featuring scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies. If you are looking for smart and inviting conversation on a wide variety of issues and more, this show is for you.