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**The AskHistorians Podcast**

The AskHistorians Podcast showcases the knowledge and enthusiasm of the AskHistorians community, a forum of nearly 1.4 million history academics, professionals, amateurs, and curious onlookers. The aim is to be a resource accessible to a wide range of listeners for historical topics which so often go overlooked. Together, we have a broad array of people capable of speaking in-depth on topics that get half a page on Wikipedia, a paragraph in a high-school textbook, and not even a minute on the History channel. The podcast aims to give a voice (literally!) to those areas of history, while not neglecting the more commonly covered topics. Part of the drive behind the podcast is to be a counterpoint to other forms of popular media on history which only seem to cover the same couple of topics in the same couple of ways over and over again.

Latest Episodes:

AskHistorians Podcast 096A [Unedited] -- Scottish Military Orders -- A Microhistory Oct 13, 2017

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A special bonus episode: a microhistory of the military orders in Scotland!

AskHistorians Podcast 096 -- European Military Orders and their History Oct 06, 2017

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This week we have a great interview with /u/Rhodis on the military orders, like the Knights Templars, Hospitallers and others! Today he will be gong us a thorough and factual history of these military orders, which often swirl with myth and legends and provide fodder for thousands of fantasy authors. Expect a special bonus episode next week on the military orders in Scotland.

Come Join us In the Discussion Thread!

AskHistorians Podcast 95 - The Revolution before the Revolution w/Doug Priest Sep 25, 2017

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Today Doug Priest (u/TenMinuteHistory on the subreddit) will explain the 1905 Revolution. This less well known precursor to the 1917 Revolutions, illustrates how the repeated failure to resolve Russia's most pressing economic, political, and social issues would set the stage for the overthrow of the Tzar over a decade later. (61 minutes)

You can find the discussion thread in the mainsub here.

AskHistorians Podcast 94 - Dr. Andrew Mangham - Dickens, Victorians, and Sensation Fiction, oh my! Sep 08, 2017

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Today we are joined by Andrew Mangham, an Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Reading, UK. He writes about the intersections between literature and the history of medicine, with a particular interest in crime, death, and the darker sides of humanity. His most recent book is a study of Dickens and Forensic Medicine entitled Dickens's Forensic Realism. It a study of the ways Dickens's writing drew upon forensic techniques, and images of death and violence. This podcast covers some of his current research, future research, and how Victorian ideas of crime and criminality are still with us today.

Discussion thread here!

AskHistorians Podcast 093 - The Holy Roman Empire in the Age of Martin Luther Aug 28, 2017

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In light of the upcoming 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, Professor Peter Wilson talks with us about the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century.

You can find the discussion thread here.

AskHistorians Podcast 092 -- What is Fascism? Aug 11, 2017

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Today we are joined again by /u/Commiespaceinvader here to tell us about the history of fascism, what it and how it works, and really giving us context for how a fascist system is born, works, and dies. (52m)

Discussion thread here!

AskHistorians Podcast 091 – Virtual Rome Project Jul 28, 2017

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We talk with Dr. Matthew Nicholls, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, and the creator of the Virtual Rome project. We discuss the difficulties of creating a 3-D, street-level map of Ancient Rome, as well as the upcoming massive open online course based upon it. (33min)

Dr. Nicholls' previous AMA on AskHistorians.

The next session of the online course of Rome: a Virtual Tour of the Ancient City will begin October 9th. You can learn more and sign up for free here.

Join the discussion on AskHistorians!

AskHistorians Podcast 090 – La Peste! The Great Plague of Marseille Jul 16, 2017

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On today's episode we have Professor Cindy Ermus, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge, explaining the Plague of Marseille in terms of the (relatively) new field of Disaster History. (56 min)

You can find the discussion thread on the subreddit here.

AskHistorians Podcast 089 - AskHistorians at the NCPH Jun 30, 2017

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This podcast is a recording of the AskHistorians presentation at the National Council of Public History this past April. You can read the full-text of the speeches here: https://redd.it/682ta1

As usual, here is the discussion thread for the episode on the AskHistorians subreddit.

You can read our papers here: https://askhistorians.com/conferences/ncph2017.html

AskHistorians Podcast 088 - The Battle of Jutland, Part 2 Jun 17, 2017

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In this concluding episode, we discuss the aftermath and fall-out from the Battle of Jutland, including the debate over the actions of the British commanders of the Grand Fleet. Also included is discussion over whether British ship designs at the time were flawed, leading to increased casualties. We conclude by putting the role of the battleship in naval warfare, particularly after WWI, in context. (37min)

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