In the second part of this two part episode, we discuss some important areas of future scholarship for the First World War experience. Graham Cornwell talks about North Africa during the war and Graham Pitts uses the case of Ottoman Lebanon to explore iss

While World War I was once studied mainly as a military conflict between European powers, the historiography of the war has since expanded to explore its truly global context that extended beyond the battlefield. Partly drawing on the proceedings of "The

Inheritance and the transfer of property across generations connects the history of families to a broader analysis of political economy, particularly in societies where wealth and capital are deeply rooted in the earth. In this episode, Zoe Griffith provi

Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl düzenlenmiştir? Bu sorulara yanıt aradığımız bu podcastımızda

Sinemanın ilk yıllarını, kinetoscope, vitascope ya da cinématographe gibi hareketli görüntü teknolojilerinin tarihi olarak okumak yeterli olabilir mi? Bu podcastta Prof. Nezih Erdoğan ve Serkan Şavk, Osmanlı’daki sinema deneyimini seyir ve ha

Historians have come to understand the Enlightenment, a cultural movement emphasizing reason and individualism, as a phenomenon of increasingly early origins that pervaded early modern European intellectual circles. This begs the question: as one of Europ

Progress, colonialism, nationalism, and the civilizing mission are all concepts associated with the late nineteenth century that were on display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In this podcast, Alma Heckman discusses the ways in which

Historians have long been wise to disease as a factor in historical events and developments. More recently, scholars have begun to focus on how conceptions and understandings of disease intersect with issues of culture, politics, race, gender, and class.

Although comparatively little has been written on science in the Ottoman and Muslim world, the field has a long history. In part two of our two-part episode on the history of science, Nir Shafir explores the work of pioneering authors of Ottoman history o

Science is sometimes posited as a means of reaching objective truth, but it does not take place in a vacuum. In part one of our two part series on the history of science, Nir Shafir, Arianne Urus, and Sam Dolbee discuss the ways in which historians have s