Historians At The Movies
Historians At The Movies features historians from around the world talking about your favorite movies and the history behind them. This isn't rivet-counting; this is fun. Eventually, we'll steal the Declaration of Independence.
Podcasting since 2022 • 150 episodes
Historians At The Movies
Latest Episodes
Reckoning: My Beef with Indiana
This morning I talk about why Hoosiers has been banned from HATM and why as a Kentuckian I am legally required to hate Indiana.
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Episode 120: Monsters, Inc. and the Monstrous History of Humans with Dr. Surekha Davies
This week Dr. Surekha Davies joins in to talk about a different way of seeing human history--through monsters. According to her, Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. So our conversation reveals how people have defined...
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Episode 120
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Episode 119: Shakespeare in Love and the Queer World of William Shakespeare with Dr. Will Tosh
This week Dr. Will Tosh drops in to talk about the many complexities of Shakespeare's relationships, Shakespeare's role as a working writer, and the competitive landscape of playwrights of the time, along with Will's new book, Straight...
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Episode 119
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Emergency Pod: America's First Action Hero- Where Is Our George Washington Biopic? with Dr. Craig Bruce Smith
Happy birthday Mr. President! Today for George Washington's birthday we invited Washington scholar Craig Bruce Smith to talk about why we still don't have a biopic of the First American, plus Craig's top five presidents ever.About our gu...
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Episode 118: The Program and the End of College Football with Dr. Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Dr. Derek Silva
This week Dr. Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Dr. Derek Silva drop in to talk about 1993's The Program, starring James Caan, Omar Epps, and Halle Berry. This movie was way ahead of its time in its discussions of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), concussi...
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