Talking History

<p>Every four years, Americans witness one of the defining rituals of public life: the inauguration of a president. </p><p>In that moment, the president places a hand on the Bible and swears not merely to support the...

<p>This month Djene and Patrick speak with Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections and Archives at the Miller Nichols Library, about the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.</p><p>When people think about queer...

<p>For generations rumors have swirled of lost civilizations in the Amazon. If you’re of a certain age, perhaps you grew up with Indiana Jones evading stone traps and poison darts in order to thieve away cultural riches...

<p>On a cold April morning in 1945, nearly five thousand young American airmen climbed into B-17s and B-24s on dusty airfields in southern Italy. A few hours later, they were flying through a sky turned black with flak...

<p>Djene and Patrick speak with video essayist Matt Pearson, aka the “Feral Historian,” about his essay “Sci-Fi, Satire, and the Post-WWII Mythos .”</p><p>The compelling videos made by this “rogue scholar” are about...

<p>In the autumn of 2022, Iran was rocked by a wave of national, popular unrest, some of the most severe in recent years. The immediate cause of the revolt was the suspicious death of an Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa...

<p>In this episode of Talking History, Djene speaks with Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell about conflict and cooperation over water resources.</p><p>From oil and gas to lithium and rare earth elements, the story of the...

<p>When we think of historians, we often think of educators working within the university system, teaching classes, and conducting research in dusty old archives. However, the field of history and the careers engaged in...

<p>The Ozarks and the study of its people, history, and culture are not an infrequent topic on this show. This is in part due to this show’s production near the middle of “The Queen City of the Ozarks.” It is also...

<p>Nieh Hualing (1925-2024) was a Chinese-born writer, poet, and editor whose career bridged multiple cultures and continents. Born in Wuhan, she lived through the upheavals of the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese...

<p>Long before the United States became a global superpower, it was already casting its gaze far beyond its borders. In the decades before the Civil War, American ships sailed to the farthest corners of the globe, to...

<p>In 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama published an article, The End of History, (later expanded into a book in 1992), in which he argued that, with the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism, liberal...

<p>In this episode, Djene speaks with Dr. James Ryan about the history of modernization theory and nation-building. </p><p>From Iraq and Afghanistan, over the last quarter of a century, the foreign policy of the United...

<p>Patrick and Djene speak to journalist David Griscom about his upcoming book, Cutting Fences, which examines social change in Texas in the late nineteenth century and the rise of populism. </p><p>Griscom is a writer...

<p>In this episode of Talking History, Patrick Needham and Djene Bajalan speak with Dr. Touré Reed about the history of anti-discrimination initiatives, from Affirmative Action to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...