History Teachers' Association NSW

This episode features an interview with Dr. Louise Zarmati from the University of Tasmania about her article 'Thinking Archaeologically about Australia's Deep Time History' published in the term 1 (2022) edition of the HTANSW journal 'Teaching History'. The interview focuses on the challenges and opportunities of teaching Australia's deep time past to students in early secondary school.

This episode explores the history and historiography of witch trials and witch hunts. Our guest is Michael Street, history teacher and recipient of a 2019 Premier's Teacher Scholarship sponsored by HTANSW. Michael used his scholarship to travel to the United States and England to study the history of witch hunts and has written a chapter on this topic for the second edition of the History Extension Resource Book (HTANSW, 2020).

Dr. Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK) has written an authoritative account of Stalin's purge of the Red Army in the lead up to the Second World War. He joined us to talk about the history of state violence in Russia prior to 1917 and how terror became an important feature of the Soviet system after the October Revolution.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Michael Molkentin about his latest book 'Anzac and Aviator: The Remarkable Story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race' (Allen&Unwin, 2019). After briefly setting out the story, the interview focuses on questions of the methods used to construct the book.

Professor Roland Fletcher from the University of Sydney (Australia) is a world-leading scholar of the Khmer Empire. He generously gave his time to talk with us about the history of Angkor, the archaeology of the area and new approaches to understanding one of the most important heritage sites in the world.

In this episode, we interviewed Anne Gripton and talked about some practical ideas for teaching History Extension. The discussion mainly concentrated on the 'key questions' component of the course but it also offers some ideas for approaching Question 1 in the History Extension HSC Exam.

Professor Pierre Asselin from San Diego University recently joined us to talk about his most recent book, 'Vietnam's American War' (CUP, 2017). The episode discusses recent scholarship on the Vietnam War with a particular focus on exploring the conflict from the perspective of North Vietnam.

Dr. Rohan Howitt from the University of Sydney joins us to discuss some broad themes from Australia's 19th and early 20th centuries including migration, transnationalism, Federation and the White Australia Policy.

In this episode, we talked to Professor Mark Edele (Hansen Chair in History at the University of Melbourne). Mark's forthcoming book, Debates on Stalinism (Manchester UP, 2020), provides an up-to-date and insightful introduction to the English language historiography of Stalinism. It is a brilliant book and a very useful resource for anyone teaching this period of Soviet history.