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House of Modern History

Senta Terner und Chris Schmitt

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Taxi fahren - die Karriere nach dem Geschichtsstudium? Muss nicht sein! Wer wissen will wieso man Geschichte studieren sollte, was man damit machen kann und warum Geschichte die gegenwärtigste Wissenschaft überhaupt ist, ist hier richtig. Wir, Senta Terner und Christoph Schmitt, studieren beide Geschichte und sprechen über Erfahrungen, Fragen, Interessen und was uns sonst noch einfällt. Unsere Komfortzone ist die neuere Geschichte, doch wir schauen uns nicht nur Themen zwischen Kaiserreich u ...
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This video is a preview lasting 4:14 Minutes. TO SEE THESE SHOWS IN THEIR ENTIRETY, PLEASE VISIT http://www.celebrategreece.com/products/25-modern-greece-channel THE GREEK HOLOCAUST: 1915-1922 - Chronicles the modern day genocide of the Greeks of the Pontos and Micra Asia (Asia Minor) by the Mulsim Ottoman Turks. When it was finally over over 1.5 million Greeks were dead. THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: 1915-1923 - Chronicles the Muslim Ottoman Turks commiting the first case of modern day genocide an ...
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The History of Modern Greece covers the events of the Greek People from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Greek War of Independence in 1821-1832, to the modern day. We are a father and son team. We are not historians, but we are hardcore fans of history. We embarked on a mission to understand exactly how the Ancient Greek civilization transformed into the modern nation we see today. To prepare ourselves for the journey we purchased dozens of textbooks, watched numberless documentarie ...
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A modern U.S. history podcast about the events that spanned the Baby Boomer generation’s lifespan & that are still relevant to people today, especially to Millennials. Unlike some history podcasts, this podcast follows the national story in a chronological manner, starting in 1946. Most episodes are around a half-hour to 45 minutes in length. Each episode covers one year, possibly going all the way up to the present. You can e-mail the show here, we would love your feedback!: boomertomillenn ...
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What events shook the 21st and 20th Century to make America what it is today? In this podcast we cover current politics, music, culture, history. From the Civil Rights Movement and Woodstock to 21st century culture, we examine what makes America what it is today? This year, we are mostly discussing the influential decade of the 1960s. Podcast is usually published on Mondays.
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Modern Indian History

Swapnil Bhardwaj

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I talk about modern Indian history with my friends. Sorry for the bad audio quality, good audio episode 3 and after. Send me voice messages on anchor.fm/swapnilbhardwaj and I will add them in the next episode. swapnilbhardwaj221@gmail.com instagram : @modernindianhistory
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Explore Modern Art history including Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and other key Modernist art movements. Join artist and educator Klaire Lockheart as she examines famous artists and artwork through a 21st century intersectional feminist lens. Whether you’re an artist, student, or patron of the arts, you will hopefully learn something new about Modern Art.
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This podcast is for anyone interested in modern British political history from 1945 to 2010. The focus is generally going to be more on domestic policy and I plan to either interview someone knowledgeable each episode, or use a book, documentary etc as some fodder for discussion. My personal interest in this comes from being a longstanding modern British history enthusiast, with an interest in UK domestic affairs over the recent past. My rough aim is to put out a podcast every two months, bu ...
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Baffled by modern art and architecture? You’re not alone! This collection gives new insight into today’s shifting kaleidoscope of visual culture by placing it in the context of the developments of the 19th and 20th century. In the mid 19th century there was a growing realisation that everything had changed. Industry was booming, and the speed of life increasing. Artists, thinkers and architects strove to find new ways of encapsulating this new world … and modernism was born. The collection d ...
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How It Began: A History of the Modern World

Brad Harris, Historian of Science & Technology

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A thrilling podcast about the History of the Modern World. Humanity has been hard at work for centuries to empower itself with better tools and insights, from science and surgery to electricity and the Internet, and this series celebrates the history of those triumphs. Compared to our ancestors, we live like superheroes and sorcerers, endowed with powers they could never have imagined. But how did we achieve all this? Historian Brad Harris tackles that question head on, revealing how the mos ...
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Ever wanted to understand the key themes driving over five hundred years of European history? In this album, architecture reveals the social, religious and economic fortunes of some of the most influential people between 1400 and 1900. By the end of the 19th century Queen Victoria presided over the vast British Empire. She looked out from London, the heart of her empire, with its buildings echoing Imperial Rome. Brussels’ architecture, like London’s, was also designed to show the world the p ...
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Send us a text In this episode, we meet our first main character from Season Four. Theodore Laskaris started his career in Constantinople when he married the daughter of the Roman Emperor Alexios the 3rd. But after the city was sacked, the noble members of the Imperial fled in all directions. Theodore found himself in Nicaea, where he started a res…
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In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of Shakespeare In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Dr. Targoff carries us …
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Send us a text Discover the profound impact of one of the most tragic moments in American history—Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. We unravel the chaos of April 1968, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, and examine Dr. King's critical presence in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. Was James…
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Wir reden in dieser Folge über die Verbreitung von Missinformation, Desinformation und Fake News zum Thema Erderwärmung und Global Warming. Dabei beziehen wir uns auf die USA und schauen an, wie schon ab den 1970er bewusste Fehlinformation zum Thema verbreitet wurde und wie die als politische Strategie von den Republikanern seit spätestens den 1990…
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In this episode, producer Erin Rogers interviews FBTM's host & writer, Logan, about the past and future of the podcast. Topics discussed include: what inspired Logan to start a history podcast; book recommendations for US history fans; how the perspective brought by troubling current events should or shouldn't affect our approach to the show; why T…
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, "another world." During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated a…
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In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed account of the colony's population. Among the groups included in this report was an often-overlooked segment—Native Americans, who comprised roughly a quarter of the colony’s enslaved population. However, not long after, references to enslaved Native pe…
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October, 1650, traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle’s recent witch trials. Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who had worked to free the accused. But when Elizabeth herself becomes hunted, the only chance of esc…
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In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniles uses the transnational story of a single regiment to examine how ordinary soldiers, military women, and officers negotiated their lives within the chaos and uncertainty of the seventeenth century. Raised in Saxon…
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Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor Guido Ruggiero (University of Delaware Press, 2024) seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the text…
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An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive comparison of two of the greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Ma…
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Send us a text Could the 1960s be the most transformative decade in cinema? Join us as we promise to unravel the seismic shifts in filmmaking that defined this era, offering you fresh insights into how films like "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" challenged the norms and continue to influence storytellers today. We'll guide you …
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Send us a text Unlock the secrets behind one of America's most influential generations as we explore the profound legacy of the Baby Boomers. How did a generation born in the prosperity of post-World War II America transform the social and political landscape? From the civil rights movement to the cultural revolution of the 60s, Baby Boomers weren'…
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Send us a text After the sack of Constantinople, the ousting of the Royal Family, and the occupation of the Ancient Roman Capital, the Greek world was turned upside down. The Latin Crusaders now ruled over the Greek capital, and three offshoot empires sprung up around the Imperial City. The Greek people were all but defeated, and the Turks, Latins,…
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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the democratization of citizenship. In Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Po…
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Send us a text What if rock and roll isn't just music, but a revolutionary act? Join us as we unravel the genre’s raw roots and its seismic cultural impact. Discover how rock and roll emerged not just from the rebellious spirit of teenagers but from a complex blend of musical traditions, societal shifts, and racial dynamics. We promise to shine a l…
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The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning as an argument between two men and their vicar, the rebellion led to a siege of Exeter, savage battles with Crown forces, and the deaths of 4,000 local men and women. It represents the most determined attemp…
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Send us a text What if the very traits that propelled a leader to greatness were also the seeds of their downfall? Join us as we unravel the enigmatic life of Richard Nixon, a figure defined by ambition, discipline, and controversy. From a modest Quaker upbringing to a meteoric rise in American politics, Nixon's journey is marked by his fierce anti…
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Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but e…
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Alistaire Tallent joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France (University of Delaware Press, 2024). Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from t…
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Send us a text What if the generation that's grown up with smartphones in their hands is about to redefine everything we know about society, work, and finance? In our latest episode, we unravel the intriguing tapestry of Generation Z—an incredibly diverse group shaped by significant events like the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. From the…
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Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in loca…
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Send us a text Imagine a world where computers were not just tools but revolutionary catalysts shaping history and the future. This episode promises to take you on an enthralling exploration, tracing the lineage of computing from the primitive yet ingenious abacus to the ultra-modern marvels like the University of Michigan MicroMote—smaller than a …
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In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduction of cattle, beginning with imports by Spanish colonizers in the 1500s, shaped colonial American…
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Send us a text What if the ideals of peace and love from the 1960s could shape our future? Join us for a captivating exploration into the vibrant world of the hippie movement, where we peel back the layers of a generation that dared to challenge the status quo. Journey with us as we trace the roots of this cultural revolution to the Beat Generation…
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Send us a text In our 1st episode of the 4th season of The History of Modern Greece, we discuss what stood out from the third season, and the impact of the crusades on the Greek World. We talk about our favorite male and female characters, as well as the heroes of the Crusades, such as Saladin, Bohemond, and Richard the Lion Heart. However, we also…
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A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist…
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Send us a text Unlock surprising insights about Martin Luther King Jr. that go beyond the familiar narrative. Did you know his name was changed to honor the reformer Martin Luther when he was just five, or that the iconic line from his "I Have a Dream" speech was stirred into existence by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson? Join us as we unravel these f…
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In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about the practice and politics of information management in early modern Europe. Ancient bibliographers and medieval scholastics, Kimmel reminds us, imagined the library as a mic…
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In our latest podcast episode, we sat down with historian Miles Smith, who teaches at Hillsdale College, to discuss his new book, Religion and Republic: Christian American from the Founding to the Civil War (Davenant Press, 2024). In this insightful conversation, we explored the book's themes, which examine the complex relationship between religion…
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Send us a text Discover the intricate layers and historical context of the Vietnam War, broken down in a way that challenges conventional narratives. Did you know Ho Chi Minh initially aligned with American ideals? Unravel the complex evolution of Vietnam from French Indochina to a battleground for Cold War fears. We explore pivotal moments, like t…
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News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements—sea level—may seem unremarkable, a long-familiar zero point for altitude. But as Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveals, the history of defining …
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Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson set out, their new collection, Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Delaware Press, 2024) to challenge the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent…
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Send us a text What if a festival could symbolize an entire generation's quest for peace and unity amidst chaos and conflict? Join us as we journey back to the iconic Woodstock festival, uncovering its transformation from a simple music event into a cultural phenomenon. We dig into the backstory of how Max Yasgur’s farm became the backdrop for this…
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What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature (U Michigan Press, 2024) develops a theory of how texts can u…
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Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Téré…
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Send us a text Unlock the secrets behind one of the most hotly contested elections in recent history as we navigate the high-stakes arena of the 2024 U.S. presidential and congressional races. Will Kamala Harris or Donald Trump emerge victorious in an election where voter choice seems set in stone? With the nation's future hanging in the balance, e…
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Wir sprechen in dieser Folge mit Paul Franke und Martin Göllnitz über Fake History. Im ersten Teil des Podcasts sprechen wir über die Fake History Konferenz, die Paul Franke, Martin Göllnitz, Sarah Kirst & Janina Schwarz organisiert wird und am 14. und 15. November in Marburg stattfindet. Das besondere daran: Sie gehen raus aus der Historiker:innen…
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A wordsmith, an extempore poet and a satirist, Kāḷamēkam (also known as Kāḷamēka Pulavar; fifteenth century) is widely known for his taṉippāṭals or 'self-contained verses', on a panoply of topics. These splendid but notoriously provocative verses were composed during a transitional phase of Tamil literature, by now in deep conversation with Sanskri…
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Send us a text What if the "tragedy of the commons" is nothing more than a myth? Discover how Eleanor Ostrom's groundbreaking research shatters this notion by showcasing how communities from Nepalese villages to Maine's lobster fishermen manage shared resources far better than top-down government solutions. In this thought-provoking episode, we unr…
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The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa (U California Press, 2023) reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of Moroccan pol…
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Send us a text What if the fight for women's rights was not just a historical milestone but an ongoing journey that demands your participation? Embark on an enlightening exploration of the women's liberation movement, starting from the groundbreaking Women's Rights Convention of 1848. Learn how the early pioneers wielded the language of liberty to …
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Send us a text What if the race to the moon was more about global power moves than scientific curiosity? Journey back with us to the Cold War era, where Apollo 11 wasn't just a mission to the moon, but a testament to national pride and technological prowess. Our latest episode unpacks the complex socio-political landscape of the 1960s, exploring th…
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Send us a text Discover how one woman's voice challenged an entire industry and sparked a revolution in environmental awareness. Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" is more than just a book—it's a testament to the power of informed advocacy against unseen threats. We'll take you back to the 1950s, an era of optimism where DDT was celebrated as a miracl…
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Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in th…
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Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectual through their engagement with the classical world in early modern France. Bringing together the fields of classical reception and women writers, Helena Taylor looks at various female novelists, tra…
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Send us a text What if the fight for freedom of speech was rooted in a moment of sheer defiance at a single university campus? Journey back with us to 1964, where the students of UC Berkeley stood boldly against Rule 17, a draconian policy that sought to silence their political voices. We recount the intense drama sparked by Jack Weinberg's arrest,…
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Send us a text Can government programs truly eradicate poverty and racial injustice, or do they create dependency? Join us as we unravel the ambitious and controversial vision of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. Inspired by FDR's New Deal, LBJ sought to build a nation where everyone had the chance for happiness and success. With his legendary pol…
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Send us a text Once the Venetians and the Frankish Crusaders breached the city walls, the greatest sacking of a Roman city took place in all their history. The atrocities committed against the citizens of Constantinople are one of the greatest crimes against humanity in the Western World. Artifacts over a thousand years old were stripped and melted…
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