Dr. Hudson talks about some of the dominant non-European empires of the early modern world, and chats with his guest of the week.

In this first episode, Dr. Hudson introduces the podcast, covers some of the reasons why studying history is useful for students, and talks with the Chair of the History Department at UNCP, Dr. Jaime Martinez.

To learn more about the Aztecs: who they were, what they did, and if we even need to be speaking about this civilization in the past tense, I spoke with Dr. Chris Woolley. Dr. Woolley is an Associate Professor of Latin American history at UNCP.

This season we are exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our fifth episode explores the Silk Roads. To learn about the Silk Roads: where they were and who and what traveled on them, I spoke with Dr. Charles Beem. Dr. Beem is a professor of British history at UNCP.

Our fourth episode explores the life and death of Grigori Rasputin, the religious mystic who wormed his way into the Russian tsar’s family. To learn more about Rasputin and the historical memory of his death, I spoke with Dr. Anthony Johnson.

This season we are exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our third episode explores the Vietnam War in a Cold War context.

This season we will be exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our second episode explores Reconstruction, the turbulent period of time after the United States Civil War, when the federal government worked to reunify the nation and implement civil rights legislation.

This episode explores how young people shaped the struggle for civil rights in mid-century America.

Dr. Anthony Johnson tells the story of the assassination of Sergei Kirov and the mystery around the real perpetrator of the crime.« Less