Reflecting History
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsReflecting 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.
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Episode 138: The Metamorphosis Part III
March 25, 2024 09:30 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBTraveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human nature, identity, change, the nature of kindness, and more. Does the mundane and day to day nature of life rob us of our spirituality and turn us all into monsters? What is the hideous bug that Gregor has turned into an allusion to? And why should we care? A classic for a reason,...
Episode 137: The Metamorphosis Part II
March 04, 2024 09:30 - 18 minutes - 17.8 MBTraveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human nature, identity, change, the nature of kindness, and more. Does the mundane and day to day nature of life rob us of our spirituality and turn us all into monsters? What is the hideous bug that Gregor has turned into an allusion to? And why should we care? A classic for a reason,...
Episode 136: The Metamorphosis Part I
February 12, 2024 09:30 - 23 minutes - 22 MBTraveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find out he's been transformed into some sort of hideous bug. The story that follows in Franz Kafka's masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" offers insight into human nature, identity, change, the nature of kindness, and more. Does the mundane and day to day nature of life rob us of our spirituality and turn us all into monsters? What is the hideous bug that Gregor has turned into an allusion to? And why should we care? A classic for a reason,...
Episode 135: Fire and Blood
January 22, 2024 09:30 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBWhile not being the book many fans wanted (and still haven’t gotten…), George R.R. Martin’s 2018 “Fire and Blood”, a fictional history prequel to "A Game of Thrones" is worthy of historical examination in its own right. Aside from being a lesson to historians in how to write entertaining, captivating history, it also offers insight into some of the bigger themes and ideas related to the study of history and the historical process. Why does history focus on war so much? Who determines which e...
BONUS: The Library of Babel
January 01, 2024 09:30 - 21 minutes - 15 MBHello everyone, here is a bonus episode from my Patreon feed. Hope you enjoy it. It's been an amazing run for a long time now, so thank you for all the support and appreciation over the years. It means a lot. Hope you have a great year. How do we find meaning in an infinite universe? Is the pursuit of meaning a meaningful pursuit? Can humanity contemplate the meaning of the infinite? How is any of this relevant to daily life? Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel" delves in...
Episode 134: Roma Part II
December 11, 2023 09:30 - 16 minutes - 12.4 MBThis is Part II in a two part series on Alfonso Cuaron's 2018 masterpiece "Roma." This episode covers the second half of the movie and discusses themes of loneliness, isolation, and belonging. It also looks at struggles over land reform in the Mexican countryside, one of the primary instigators of the Dirty War. Finally it examines the 1971 Corpus Christi Massacre, a seminal moment in Mexican history. One of my favorite movies, I recommend giving it a watch before or after listening! The s...
Episode 133: Roma Part I
November 20, 2023 09:30 - 15 minutes - 11.7 MBThe story of an indigenous housekeeper in 1970's Mexico City allows us to examine themes of Mexican history-class, race, status, violence, and more. As the Dirty War rages in the Mexican countryside, that violence starts to creep into the urban world and the personal life of the main character-Cleo. Both a personal and universal journey, the film is meant to be somewhat autobiographical account of director Alfonzo Cuaron's early life in Mexico City. History as a memory. This is Part I in ...
Episode 132: The Mexican Dirty War Part VI-Spaces of Memory
October 30, 2023 09:30 - 13 minutes - 10.3 MBFor the victims of the Mexican Dirty War and their families, all that's left of it now is spaces of memory. This episode is Part VI in a series on the Mexican Dirty War and takes a final look at the ideas of historical narrative being fluid, as well as the concept of history as a memory. -Consider Supporting the Podcast!- Leave a rating or review on apple podcasts or spotify! Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory Check out my podcast series on Pi...
Episode 131: The Mexican Dirty War Part V-Massacres and Memories
October 09, 2023 09:30 - 16 minutes - 12.4 MBDoes it make any sense to compare individual personality and memory to historical and collective memory? Much like our own memories, the past is often remembered according to the needs of the present. The Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 offers an opportunity to think about questions of nationalism, historical memory, and collective identity. This episode is Part V in a series on the Mexican Dirty War. It discusses the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 and why it is such a seminal moment in Mexican ...
Episode 130: The Mexican Dirty War Part IV-Violence and Change
September 18, 2023 09:30 - 17 minutes - 12.9 MBIs violence necessary for change? The Mexican Dirty War provides an interesting lens through which to view this question. Leftist geurrilla movements in Mexico were made up of a diversity of disaffected and disenfranchised people who made several failed attempts to uproot corruption and authoritarianism. At what point should peace turn into violence? This episode is Part IV in a series on the Mexican Dirty War. It discusses the makeup of different geurrilla groups during the conflict, and ...
Episode 129: The Mexican Dirty War Part III-Revolution of the Mundane
August 28, 2023 09:30 - 25 minutes - 18 MBWhat caused the Mexican Dirty War? A combination of economic, social, and political grievances built up over the course of hundreds of years to finally explode in the mid-20th century. The geurrilla warfare and the brutal counter-insurgent response from the government during the Dirty War had their roots in historical grievances and narratives that motivated ordinary people in Mexico through decades and centuries. This episode is Part III in a series on the Mexican Dirty War. It discusses ...
Episode 128: The Mexican Dirty War Part II-Spectres of Revolution
August 07, 2023 09:30 - 20 minutes - 14.7 MBHow 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 in the context of the Mexican Dirty War by analyzing the conflict through the lens of the broader themes of Mexican history. Although history may be in the past, it's ghost lingers in the present. This episode is Part II in a series on the Mexican Dirty War. It gives a b...
Episode 127: The Mexican Dirty War Part I-The Politics of Memory
July 17, 2023 09:30 - 16 minutes - 12.1 MBThe 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 Mexico for years-thousands would lose their lives, families and communities would be destroyed, and grief would linger for generations. This episode is Part I in a series on the Mexican Dirty War. It gives an overview of the conflict, analyzes the nature of geurrilla warfare ...
Episode 126: Reconstructing Emotion in History
June 26, 2023 09:30 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB"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 interpretations on the past? How do we know that ancient peoples felt the same emotions we do? What role should emotion, feeling, and motivation play in the study of history? Archaelogist Guy Middleton's paper "I Will Follow You Into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral...
Episode 125: Burning
June 05, 2023 09:59 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB"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 actually offers insight into the banality of evil, the ambiguity of responsibility, the power of memory, the nature of disappearance, and the reality of metaphor. Much like the narrator, after reading this story "...just now and then, in the depths of the night, I'll think ab...
BONUS: Staying Behind
May 15, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBIn 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 Behind," Ken Liu explores a possible future that feels all too real. In the process the story asks big questions about the nature of humanity: what does it mean to be human? What makes life meaningful? Is progress a virtue or vice? Read the story here: https://clarkesworld...
Episode 124: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wounded World with Chad Williams
April 24, 2023 09:30 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBIn 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; World War I and it's causes; the role of black americans and black soldiers in World War I; the connection between race, capitalism, socialism, and the labor movements of the early 20th century; the Great Migration and it's impacts on American society; racial violence directed...
Episode 123: Piranesi
April 03, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MB“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 his life becomes more sinister, Piranesi must discover who he is and how this brings him closer to the “Great and Secret Knowledge” that the House contains. Touching on themes of memory, identity, mental health, knowledge, reason, experience, meaning, reflection, ideals, and m...
Episode 122: Story of Your Life
March 13, 2023 21:30 - 21 minutes - 15 MBWhat 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 person and your relationship with the people around you? All of these questions and more are discussed in this episode that takes a look at Ted Chiang's legendary short story "Story of Your Life," the inspiration for the equally awesome film "Arrival" starring Amy Adams. -Con...
Episode 121: Ikiru
February 20, 2023 21:30 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBWhat 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 1952 masterpiece "Ikiru." Life is brief... -Consider Supporting the Podcast!- Leave a rating or review on apple podcasts or spotify! Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory Check out my podcast series on Piranesi, Arcane, The Dark Kn...
Episode 120: The Memory Police
January 30, 2023 21:30 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBYoko 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 our daily routines. What can memory tell us about grief, loss, and resitance to "quiet authoritarianism?" -Consider Supporting the Podcast!- Leave a rating or review on apple podcasts or spotify! Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory...
Episode 119: The Buried Giant
January 09, 2023 21:30 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBIt'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 would happen if we suddenly all forgot our shared past? Would the world be more peaceful? Are some things best forgotten? In this episode I explore Kazuo Ishiguro's incredible novel "The Buried Giant," and how memory connects to history. -Consider Supporting the Podcast!...
BONUS: Dreams and the Supersensorium
December 19, 2022 21:30 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBWhy 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 into? This episode is an examination of Erik Hoel's excellent article "Enter the Supersensorium." The connection between dreams and reality is fascinating, but this connection also has some troubling insights into where humanity is headed. Read the article here: https://th...
Episode 118: What Remains Part IV-Generational Grief
November 28, 2022 21:30 - 12 minutes - 8.29 MBBy 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 ordinary survivors of the war contrasted sharply with state sanctioned commemoration and moralistic narrative. This is the concluding episode in a series covering Tobie Meyer-Fong's excellent book "What Remains," about some of the less talked about social aspects of the T...
Episode 117: What Remains Part III-Bodies and Burials
November 07, 2022 21:30 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBAs 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 questions of power and authority. To what extent does the loss of bones lead to loss of identity? Why did civilians fear what would happen to their dead body? How did state and local officials insert themselves into the commemoration process? What does all this tell us about the n...
Episode 116: What Remains Part II-Wartime Identity
October 17, 2022 21:30 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBTo 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 formation, identity signaling, and identity assignment reveals interesting questions about the nature of identity, what it means to be physically and spiritually whole, and how we should look at these questions historically speaking. This episode is part two in a series covering T...
Episode 115: What Remains Part I-Reward and Punishment
September 26, 2022 21:30 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBHow 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 this conflict? How did people combat the horrors of war psychologically? This episode is part one in a series covering Tobie Meyer-Fong's excellent book "What Remains," about some of the less talked about social aspects of the Taiping Civil War such as memory, identity, and ...
Episode 114: The Taiping Civil War Part V-The Cost
September 05, 2022 21:30 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBThe 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 atrocities would force those who survived to face complicated questions of grief and loss. This is the fifth episode in a series on the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Rebellion in China. It deals with some of the particularly violent characteristics of the the war, as w...
Episode 113: The Taiping Civil War Part IV-The Outsiders
August 15, 2022 21:30 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThe 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 interacted and converged: the Taiping version of Christianity, the Qing appeal to Confucian tradition, and the western imperial civilizing mission. This is the fourth episode in a series on the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Rebellion in China. It focuses on the ways that t...
Episode 112: The Taiping Civil War Part III-The Rebel
July 25, 2022 21:30 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBHow 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 itself to be a nightmare in reality for millions of people in China. This is the third episode in a series on the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Rebellion in China. It focuses on the origin story of Hong Xiuquan, his interpretation of Christian scripture in the context of the...
Episode 111: The Taiping Civil War Part II-The Mixing Bowl
July 04, 2022 21:30 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBThe “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 individuals, or the larger contextual trends acting on those individuals? Ultimately a mix of these two styles of history may help us understand how mixed cultural and religiously syncretic systems of belief, combined with translated religious texts and Christian teachings wound up i...
Episode 110: The Taiping Civil War Part I-The Pressure Cooker
June 13, 2022 21:30 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBFrom 1850-1864, China was swallowed by a wave of chaos and destruction that was bizarre, unprecedented, and apocalyptic. Some historians estimate that the Taiping Civil War left more than 20 million dead in it's wake. The tale is often told as the strange story of the Taiping leader Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus and essentially started his own version of Christianity in China. But there is more to the story, and understanding the Taiping Civil War starts with u...
BONUS: The Bear
May 23, 2022 21:30 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBHey everyone, this is a bonus episode from my Patreon feed. Hope you enjoy it. If you want to support the podcast, you can click the link here: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory "The Bear" by William Faulkner is one of the legendary stories in American literature. Written many decades ago, I think it still has something important to tell us about Manifest Destiny, nature, unity, truth, beauty, and more. A boy's journey to find and hunt a mythical bear can also teach us something ab...
Episode 109: On Full Automatic with William V. Taylor
May 02, 2022 21:30 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this episode, I sat down with Vietnam War veteran and now best selling author William V. Taylor to talk about his memoir “On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months In Vietnam.” During the discussion we talked about his enlistment and training process, the types and nature of combat during his time there, the role of the environment and how factors like heat and terrain affected him, his relationship to civilians in Vietnam, his changing view of the nature of the enemy as the war went on, the...
Episode 108: Dear John with Susan Carruthers
April 11, 2022 21:30 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode I sat down with historian Susan Carruthers to discuss her new book "Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America." We discuss the history of the Dear John letter in times of war, how relationships and emotional life are stressed during times of war, social norms and gender roles in regards to letter writing in times of war, the sweeping changes in the technology of communication between spouses of military members, the psychology surrounding these topics, the nature of inst...
Episode 107: Freedom and Tyranny
March 21, 2022 21:30 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBWhat is freedom? Is it possible to truly make free decisions? How does this relate to the political concept of tyranny? In a world where freedom is often seen as one of the highest ethical priorities, it's worth taking a closer look at what freedom really is. Questions about freedom have been pondered since the beginnings of humanity, including the Ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato offering analysis on the topic that is still relevant today. Read Book IX of Plato's Republic he...
Episode 106: History at a Crossroads
February 28, 2022 22:30 - 22 minutes - 14.8 MB"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen." Vladimir Lenin's famous words beg the question: are some moments in history more significant than others? Are there "crossroads" time periods in history where a given path can branch into multiple different pathways? What are some examples of these crossroads moments and what creates these seismic shifts in the trajectory of history? -Consider Supporting the Podcast!- Leave a rating or review on apple ...
Episode 105: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
February 07, 2022 22:30 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIs it possible to ever be truly happy? What if your happiness rests on a backbone of degradation and exploitation? Is it right to sacrifice the few for the many? What should be done about injustice in the world? All of these questions and more are contemplated in Ursula Le Guin's amazing short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." Read the story here: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view -Consider ...
Episode 104: Education in Nazi Germany
January 17, 2022 22:30 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBFrom universities down to the Hitler Youth, the education system in 1930's Germany was co-opted by Nazi ideology. In what ways did the endorsement of Nazi ideals by prominent thinkers and intellectuals impact popular opinion? In what ways did the education system change to align itself with Nazi beliefs? How did this impact ordinary people? This is one of the episodes in my 13 part series on the development of fascism in Nazi Germany called "Nazi Germany and the Battle for the Human Heart." ...
Episode 103: The Man Who Ended History
December 27, 2021 22:30 - 33 minutes - 23 MBFor as long as there has been history, there has been a struggle to interpret and analyze that history. Different perspectives, ideologies, and approaches permeate the study of the past. So which interpretation of history is the correct one? Could we all come to a consensus? What if we had a time machine that allowed us to all go back to the same moment and take the guess work and perspective out of history, leaving behind only the facts and the evidence? What would thinking about these ques...
Episode 102: On Fantasy
December 06, 2021 22:30 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBCan something be valuable, good, or useful if it isn't real? Depending on your answer to that and your definition of real, fantasy and science fiction may not qualify. But in this episode I argue for the positive benefits of reading and watching fantasy, why it's inherently valuable, how it helps the study of history, and how it can be useful in the real world. For a different (and much better) reading of the George RR Martin quote I cite in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r...
BONUS: History as a Process
November 23, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBHey everybody, here is a bonus episode I released a few months ago on my Patreon feed. Hope you enjoy and have a great Thanksgiving. The recent discovery of "Dragon Man" and it's potential relationship to early humanity has created some level of controversy in history and archaeology circles. What does this new discovery tell us about the "process" of history? Is history something that is set in stone? Or does it change as humanity changes? Questions worth pondering. Thanks for the support...
Episode 101: Is the Human Element of History Exploitative?
November 15, 2021 22:30 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBIs there a conflict between a zoomed-out historical approach that is focused on facts, events, and dates, versus a more bottom up approach that is focused on ordinary people and their experience of those facts, events, and dates? More recent popular histories and storytellers have focused on the human element (myself included) to bring more emotion and weight to the arguments that they are making. But can the use of this human element be exploitative at times? Can it go over the top into the...
Episode 100: Cast Away
October 25, 2021 21:30 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBWell, I never thought I would make it to 100 episodes. But here we are. A sincere thank you to everyone reading this right now and to everyone who has ever taken the time to listen to this podcast. In this episode I do a deep dive into the movie "Cast Away" starring Tom Hanks from the year 2000. In my view, this movie stands the test of time and is about a lot more than a guy stranded on an island with a volleyball. It's about meaning and purpose, time and resilience, letting go and remem...
Episode 99: Humanistic Psychology Part II
October 04, 2021 23:25 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MB"Don't reach for the stars, reach for the flowers." One of the appealing aspects of humanistic psychology is it's embrace of the ordinary and it's emphasis on the fundamental goodness of human beings. Is it true that human nature is fundamentally good as humanists like Abraham Maslow say? Or is there too much evidence of greed and malevolence from the historical past? Should we focus on what human beings have been? Or what they could be? This episode concludes a two part series on humanistic...
Episode 98: Humanistic Psychology Part I
September 20, 2021 21:30 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIn popular culture, there is often a morbid fascination with the psychology of evil, but what about the psychology of good? Social Psychology may get most of the headlines, but Humanistic Psychology could have just as much to say about human behavior. In his book "Transcend," psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman investigates humanistic psychology from Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Harlow's infant monkeys. He provides a reimagining of the hierarchy of needs and a new way to think about universal...
Episode 97: Mono No Aware
August 30, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBIn a massive and seemingly uncaring universe, fatalism and the resignation of inevitability is one way to look at the world. The philosophical concept of Mono No Aware and Ken Liu's powerful short story "Mono No Aware" offer an alternative point of view through concepts of inherent beauty, the transient nature of life and death, and the recognition of the impermanent nature of the moment. Read the story here: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mono-no-aware/ -Consider Supporting ...
Episode 96: Running From Bondage with Karen Cook Bell
August 09, 2021 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode I sat down with historian Karen Cook Bell to talk about her book Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. We discussed life as a female slave in the Revolutionary period, forms of overt and covert resistance to slavery, the sexual exploitation and abuse of slave women, what made slaves decide to run away, maroon communities of runaway slaves, the difficulty of researching the history of lived experience, the paradox...
Episode 95: Sprinting Through No Man's Land with Adin Dobkin
July 19, 2021 22:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBIn this episode, I spoke with writer and journalist Adin Dobkin about his book "Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France." We talked about conflict as a lens into cultural history, the 1919 Tour de France and its relationship to World War I, the emotional and psychological impact of World War I, sporting events and national identity, the role of the bicycle in history-specifically as it relates to World War I and women's history, and more. ...
Episode 94: The Cambodian Genocide Part V-Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
June 28, 2021 22:30 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBChildren often get overlooked in the study of history. But their stories can be useful tools to study the past as well as fascinating examples of human endurance in their own right. Compiled by Dith Pran, "Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields" is a series of first hand accounts from survivors of the Cambodian Genocide. These survivors were kids during the dark times of the Khmer Rouge, and now they tell their stories. This is the final part in a series on the Cambodian Genocide. Thanks f...