UNCP History Department Podcasts

How did the emergence of the international silver market impact trade between the Ming Dynasty and other parts of the world? Dr. Hudson discusses this and other questions with his guest of the week.

Why are there so many Protestant churches today? Dr. Hudson talks about this and other questions with his guest of the week.

Dr. Hudson and his guest talk about some of the major empires of the Americas and the impact of the colonial encounter with Spain.

Dr. Hudson talks about some of the dominant non-European empires of the early modern world, and chats with his guest of the week.

To learn more about the Aztecs: who they were, what they did, and if we even need to be speaking about this civilization in the past tense, I spoke with Dr. Chris Woolley. Dr. Woolley is an Associate…

This season we are exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our fifth episode explores the Silk Roads. To learn about the Silk Roads: where the…

Our fourth episode explores the life and death of Grigori Rasputin, the religious mystic who wormed his way into the Russian tsar’s family. To learn more about Rasputin and the historical memory of …

This season we are exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our third episode explores the Vietnam War in a Cold War context.

This season we will be exploring topics that our students said they wanted to know more about after taking our classes. Our second episode explores Reconstruction, the turbulent period of time after …

This episode explores how young people shaped the struggle for civil rights in mid-century America.

Dr. Anthony Johnson tells the story of the assassination of Sergei Kirov and the mystery around the real perpetrator of the crime.« Less