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 119: The Buried Giant [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:10
It's been said that you are what you remember. What is the role and function of memory on a personal level and how does this connect to collective memory and history? Does collective memory fuel cycles of violence? What…
BONUS: Dreams and the Supersensorium [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:28
Why do we dream? What is the difference between dreaming and being awake? Is the modern world around us merely an "artificial dream"-with it's constant barrage of sensory input, screens to look at, and narratives to dive…
Episode 118: What Remains Part IV-Generational Grief [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:04
By the end of the Taiping Civil War, millions in China felt the grief of being caught in limbo between remembering and forgetting, personal and state, past and future. Ultimately the more intimate, personal grief felt by…
Episode 117: What Remains Part III-Bodies and Burials [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:08
As the deaths piled up during the Taiping Civil War, the grim but pressing reality of how to deal with and commemorate all of the dead bodies lends insight into historical questions of identity and ritual, but also quest…
Episode 116: What Remains Part II-Wartime Identity [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:52
To what extent do questions of who you are and how others see you relate to your personal and philosophical identity? How would this change in a time of war? During the Taiping Civil War, the process of identity formatio…
Episode 115: What Remains Part I-Reward and Punishment [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:58
How did ordinary people make sense of a devastating and apocalyptic event like the Taiping Civil War? To what extent did the logic of divine reward and punishment play a role in the ordinary lives of people impacted by t…
Episode 114: The Taiping Civil War Part V-The Cost [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:17
The Taiping Civil War was an apocalyptic event for those who lived through it. For most ordinary civilians, the realties on the ground involved violence, looting, hypocrisy, and danger at all times. The chaos, death, and…
Episode 113: The Taiping Civil War Part IV-The Outsiders [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:58
The Taiping Civil War is often seen as a product of clashing belief systems and a testament to the power of belief. This episode provides some analysis for how the belief systems of the 3 major players in the conflict in…
Episode 112: The Taiping Civil War Part III-The Rebel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:52
How did Hong Xiuquan transform from ordinary school teacher into the leader of the largest rebellion in modern history and the younger brother of Jesus? What started out as one man's fever dream would slowly reveal itsel…
Episode 111: The Taiping Civil War Part II-The Mixing Bowl [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:27
The "Great Man" style of history is often scoffed on, but does it have a part to play in the story of the Taiping Civil War? Which plays a bigger role in history-individual choices and decisions made by powerful individu…

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