History Matters Podcast

44:54 | Sep 15th, 2017

Keith and Patrick chat with economist Marshall Steinbaum of the Roosevelt Institute on ideology and history.

1:03:32 | May 4th, 2017

Keith and Patrick are finally back together after a hiatus, and the topic is narratives in history: how to write them, why they matter, and how much we should be using them to understand the past. We ...Show More

52:27 | Apr 24th, 2017

In May 2016, the Federal Reserve reported that 46% of Americans would struggle to find $400 for an emergency expense. Debt and precarity have become increasingly important political issues recently bu...Show More

59:21 | Apr 16th, 2017

During this past election many pundits claimed that Donald Trump's victory in the Republican primary meant the end of the religious right. Those predictions turned out to be wrong. In this episode, Ke...Show More

55:21 | Apr 7th, 2017

Economic inequality is an increasingly major topic of discussion. Patrick and Keith discuss an excellent book on the topic, "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Ag...Show More

54:24 | Mar 17th, 2017

Globalization is one of the defining issues of our time, and it's often presented as an unalloyed positive. That's not the case. There are serious downsides as well, and in this episode, Keith and Pat...Show More

52:12 | Mar 9th, 2017

Globalization, the ever-increasing flows of money, goods, and people on a worldwide level, is one of the defining characteristics of our modern world. Where did it come from, how do historians talk ab...Show More

1:13:09 | Feb 22nd, 2017

Patrick and Keith are joined by their friend Stefan Smith (The_SAlexander on Twitter), a historian of scandal in the early modern period, to discuss scandal in the age of Trump and why he seems so imm...Show More