Get it on Google Play

Reflecting History

Reflecting History

Author: Reflecting History Language: English Episodes: 50
Official website RSS
HistoryCulturePhilosophySocietySociety & Culture
InstagramYouTubeTikTokSpotifyApple MusicPatreon
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.
Episodes
Episode 180: Heart of Darkness Part IV - The Earth Seemed Unearthly [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:47
"The earth seemed unearthly." The character of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness is one of the most enigmatic depictions of villainy in modern times. By the time Marlow reaches Kurtz' compound, his reality has completely been d…
Episode 179: Heart of Darkness Part III - Belief and Reality [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:37
As Marlow travels deeper into the heart of darkness, we get our first look at the enigmatic Kurtz. At first just a peripheral figure who is important to the ivory collection operation of the nameless "Company," Kurtz com…
Episode 178: Heart of Darkness Part II - Ideological Mimesis [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:17
As Marlow prepares for his journey to the Congo, he visits a psychiatrist who gives him his first glimpse at what he is getting himself into. His introduction into the pseudoscience of phrenology is an ideological starti…
Episode 177: Heart of Darkness Part I - The Paradox of History [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:24
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is both a scathing critique of European imperialism and a reminder that all humans have the capacity to succumb to the heart of darkness. It also is not without controversy, as pe…
Episode 176: The Young Will Remember with Eve J. Chung [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:03
In this episode I'm joined by author Eve J. Chung to discuss her latest book The Young Will Remember, a historical fiction novel set during the Korean War. We discuss her book, different historical narratives and memorie…
Episode 175: Congo's Nightmare Part VII - The Great Forgetting [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:33
The Congo Free State eventually dissolved, but what does it mean to us today? How did we collectively forget a tragedy on this scale? Why do some historical stories get buried in the sands of time while others don't? His…
Episode 173: Congo's Nightmare Part V - Shadow War [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:16
As the evidence of atrocities in the Congo Free State became impossible to ignore, direct African resistance developed in numerous places around the Congo. As this was happening, a large and sophisticated human rights ca…
Episode 172: Congo's Nightmare Part IV - The Rubber Boom [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:26
As a result of a worldwide rubber boom where rubber became a highly demanded economic resource, the agents of the Congo Free State kicked off efforts to gain as much rubber and profit as possible-leading to some of the w…
Episode 171: Congo's Nightmare Part III - Ivory Terror [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:14
With King Leopold II of Belgium now in full control of the Belgian Congo, the extraction of ivory and other resources could begin. The story of the plunder of the Congo is so brutal and unbelievable, and at times so hard…

12345»