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.
Episodes
Episode 128: The Mexican Dirty War Part II-Spectres of Revolution [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:10
How does the broader context of history affect our personal lives on a daily basis? How does historical memory and narrative storytelling change the way we view the past and the present? This episode asks these questions…
Episode 127: The Mexican Dirty War Part I-The Politics of Memory [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:24
The Mexican Dirty War was fought from the 1960's into the 1980's between the Mexican government and geurrilla insurgents. Geurrilla warfare and government counter-insurgency would be a reality of life in many parts of Me…
Episode 126: Reconstructing Emotion in History [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:48
"History is a dialogue between the past and the present." So how do we know anything about history? To what extent is our knowledge of history merely modern day historians projecting their own thoughts and interpretation…
Episode 125: Burning [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:08
"Sometimes I burn barns." Things aren't always what they seem in Haruki Murakami's surreal and incredible short story "Barn Burning." What could be read on the surface as the tale of a love triangle and a little arson ac…
BONUS: Staying Behind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:52
In a dystopian future, humanity is faced with a choice: upload your consciousness into a machine and live forever in paradise, or stay behind and continue being human as we've come to know it. In his short story "Staying…
Episode 124: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wounded World with Chad Williams [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:17
In this episode I spoke with historian Chad Williams about his latest book-"The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War" We discussed the legacy of Du Bois; his views on identity and double consciousness; W…
Episode 123: Piranesi [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:19
"The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; it's kindness infinite." Piranesi lives in an infinite house, with no long-term memory and only a loose sense of identity. As the secrets of the House deepen and the mystery of h…
Episode 122: Story of Your Life [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:48
What if it was possible to "remember" the future? What if our typical conceptions of cause and effect didn't tell the whole story? If the story of your life was laid out in front of you, how would that change you as a pe…
Episode 121: Ikiru [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:44
What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to really live? What is the nature of bureaucracy and how does this seep into our everyday lives and relationships? These questions and more are analyzed in Akira Kurosawa's…
Episode 120: The Memory Police [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:32
Yoko Ogawa's 1994 masterpiece "The Memory Police" is much more than a dystopian novel. It delves into the ways that memory connects with everything-from our deepest sense of self, to our friendships and relationships, to…

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