All Episodes
15 Minute History — 154 episodes · page 1 of 2
Episode 154: The Nature of Empire: Power, Ecology and Knowledge
Episode 153: Horses and Humans throughout History
Episode 152: Rethinking the Slave Trade
Episode 151: Henri Christophe: First and Last King of Haiti
Episode 150: America First: The Debate Then and Now
Episode 149: A crisis of confidence – America in 1876
Episode 148: US China relations in the 1970s
Episode 147: The Court Packing Crisis
Episode 146: Black Labor in Boston
Episode 145: Student Protests
Episode 144: Partisanship in the Revolutionary era
Episode 143: Glen Canyon and Water Infrastructure
Episode 142: World War I and the Hapsburg Empire
Episode 141: Reconstruction From Past to Present
Episode 140: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
Episode 139: New Theory of American History
Episode 138: Sex, Race, and Labor in French Colonialism
Episode 137: Jean Paul Sartre In The Arab World
Episode 136: Afro-Indigenous Histories of the US
Episode 135: Connected Histories of Cuba and the United States
Episode 134: Austin’s Black History
Episode 133: The 1844 Philadelphia Riots
Episode 132: History of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Episode 131: Climate and Environmental History in Context
Episode 130: Black Reconstruction in Indian Territory
Episode 129: Slavery in the West
Episode 128: The Racial Geography Tour at U.T. Austin
Episode 127: History of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Episode 126: Postwar Lesbian History
Episode 125: Environmental Justice and Indigenous History
Episode 124: The “Spanish” Influenza of 1918-1920
Episode 123: Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
Episode 122: The History of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy in the U.S.
Episode 121: The Case for Women’s History
Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.
Episode 119: Beatlemania and the 55th Anniversary of the First Beatles Tour to the US
Episode 118: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Episode 117: Albert Einstein – Separating Man from Myth
Episode 116: Jewish Life in 20th Century Iran
Episode 115: Violent Policing of the Texas Border
Episode 114: Slavery in Indian Territory
Episode 113: 1968 – The Year the Dream Died
Episode 112: Harvey Milk, Forty Years Later
Episode 111: The Legacy of World War I in Germany and Russia
Episode 110: The Legacy of WWI in the Balkans and Middle East
Episode 109: The Tango and Samba
Episode 108: A History of the U.S. Marine Corps
Episode 107: The Yazid Inscription
Episode 106: The Blood Libel
Episode 105: Slavery and Abolition
Episode 104: Foreign Fighters in the Spanish Civil War
Episode 103: French Child Ambassadors in the East
Episode 102: The “Servant Girl Annihilator”
Episode 101: The Bolshevik Revolution at 100
Episode 100: Extravaganza Spectacular!
Episode 99: The 40 Acres During World War I
Episode 98: Brazil’s Teatro Negro and Afro-Brazilian Identity
Episode 97: The Zionist Movement in Czechoslovakia
Episode 96: Louis XIV’s Absolutism and the “Affair of the Poisons”
Episode 95: The Impossible Presidency
Episode 94: Populism
Episode 93: Women and the Tamil Epics
Episode 92: Disability History in the United States
Episode 91: The History of the Family
Episode 90: Stokely Carmichael: A Life
Episode 89: Seven Skeletons
Episode 88: The Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Episode 87: Nigeria’s Civil War & The Origins of American Humanitarian Interventions
Episode 86: Rethinking the Agricultural “Revolution”
Episode 85: Brexit
Episode 84: Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shooting
Episode 83: Simone de Beauvoir and ‘The Second Sex’
Episode 82: What Writing Can Tell Us About the Arabs before Islam
Episode 81: The Trans-Pacific Silver Trade and Early-Modern Globalization
Episode 80: Colonial Medicine and STDs in 1920s Uganda
Episode 79: Fishmeal—The Superfood That Never Was
Episode 78: The U.S. and Decolonization after World War II
Episode 77: The Paris Commune
Episode 76: The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade
Episode 75: The Birmingham Qur’ān
Episode 74: The Changsha Rice Riots of 1910
Episode 73: The Borderlands War, 1915-20
Episode 72: Roundtable – Antiquities in Danger
Episode 71: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
Episode 70: Slavery and Abolition in Iran
Episode 69: The Amateur Photography Movement in the Soviet Union
Episode 68: The Russian Empire on the Eve of World War 1
Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why
Episode 66: Operation Intercept
Episode 65: Darwinism and the Scopes “Monkey Trial”
Episode 64: Monumental Sculpture of Preclassic Mesoamerica
Episode 63: Ezra and the Compilation of the Pentateuch
Episode 62: Sunni and Shi’a in Medieval Syria
Episode 61: The Fatimids
Episode 60: Texas and the American Revolution
Episode 59: John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company
Episode 58: Islam’s First Civil War
Episode 57: The Succession to Muhammad
Episode 56: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Episode 55: Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe