Reflecting History

Reflecting History

Author: Reflecting History Language: English Episodes: 100
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Reflecting History is an educational history podcast that explores significant historical events and themes without losing track of the ordinary people involved. Covering a wide variety of topics, it explores the connection between history, psychology, and philosophy.
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Episode 137: The Metamorphosis Part II [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:32
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human natu…
Episode 136: The Metamorphosis Part I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:07
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human natu…
Episode 135: Fire and Blood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:28
While not being the book many fans wanted (and still haven't gotten…), George R.R. Martin's 2018 "Fire and Blood", a fictional history prequel to "A Game of Thrones" is worthy of historical examination in its own right.…
BONUS: The Library of Babel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:48
Hello everyone, here is a bonus episode from my Patreon feed. Hope you enjoy it. It's been an amazing run for a long time now, so thank you for all the support and appreciation over the years. It means a lot. Hope you ha…
Episode 134: Roma Part II [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:56
This is Part II in a two part series on Alfonso Cuaron's 2018 masterpiece "Roma." This episode covers the second half of the movie and discusses themes of loneliness, isolation, and belonging. It also looks at struggles…
Episode 133: Roma Part I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:52
The story of an indigenous housekeeper in 1970's Mexico City allows us to examine themes of Mexican history-class, race, status, violence, and more. As the Dirty War rages in the Mexican countryside, that violence starts…
Episode 132: The Mexican Dirty War Part VI-Spaces of Memory [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:52
For the victims of the Mexican Dirty War and their families, all that's left of it now is spaces of memory. This episode is Part VI in a series on the Mexican Dirty War and takes a final look at the ideas of historical n…
Episode 131: The Mexican Dirty War Part V-Massacres and Memories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:56
Does it make any sense to compare individual personality and memory to historical and collective memory? Much like our own memories, the past is often remembered according to the needs of the present. The Tlatelolco Mass…
Episode 130: The Mexican Dirty War Part IV-Violence and Change [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:39
Is violence necessary for change? The Mexican Dirty War provides an interesting lens through which to view this question. Leftist geurrilla movements in Mexico were made up of a diversity of disaffected and disenfranchis…
Episode 129: The Mexican Dirty War Part III-Revolution of the Mundane [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:05
What caused the Mexican Dirty War? A combination of economic, social, and political grievances built up over the course of hundreds of years to finally explode in the mid-20th century. The geurrilla warfare and the bruta…

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