ITT: talk about history podcasts>Ryan Stitts history of ancient greece >rest is history>empire>tides of historyAlso kinda related>philosophize thisBeen listening to these mostly, recommend something new.
>>18751578Rest is History is what I've been listening to recently. Good banter and good mix of information and commentary, and Tom and Dom seem like pretty bright, nuanced thinkers. Favorite episodes include the series on the Medici, the Abyssinian Expedition, and the Fall of the IncasAlways loved History of Rome too but it can be a slog if you're not really interested in that period.
>>18751578>rest is historywhen they cover a topic you know about they're revealed as surface level hacks
>>18751602Maybe but they are still very entertaining, i might listen to a topic i wouldnt care about otherwise, then get interested and start reading more about it
>>18751578>Ryan StittsWhat did he mean by this
Mesoanon here, The Rest is History's podcast series on the Cortes expedition and the Fall of the Aztec is the least-bad non-Mesoamericanist coverage of the topic I've seen so farI say "least-bad" though rather then "best". There were still too many errors for me to recommend it unconditionally, and I never finished it (I think I got halfway through? or maybe 2 of 6?) but you could tell they actually engaged with the literature and read recent scholarship on the topic, like Restall and Townsend (IIRC they had her on for an episode like year prior to their actual Cortes/Aztec series?), rather then just relying on Prescott from 100+ years ago like most generalists doCertainly impressed me more than The Fall of Civilizations did, though that too I only got like halfway or maybe just a quarter of the way throughAnyways, I haven't listened to it AT ALL yet, but mexicapodcast.com is probably good, I'm friends with a guy who interacts with him on twitter and afaik he should know what he's talking about, but I can't fully guarantee that. Also of course the Mesoamerican /r/Askhistorian podcast episodes are solidThere's also some podcasts actual Mesoamerican archeologists and historians have been on: As I mentioned Townsend was on The Rest is History once, I know Dodds Pennock was on a night-time or Halloween themed podcast a few years back I think I have a recording of and was brought on for another thing on youtube in the past few months I saw. Ed Barnhart has a bunch of different Youtube channels and has been a guest on a number of podcasts (though he tends to get stuff wrong about the Aztec, and the great courses stuff he was a host for was also iffy, so...? Maybe he's just REALLY overspecialized on knowing about the Maya only?), and really Academic conferences are kinda like podcasts, right? I can suggest a bunch of those if people want>>18751602I disagree, see above. if they're hacks, than everybody else doing general world history content are mega-hacks
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>>18751681Least-bad would be how I would describe their coverage of the fall of the Soviet Union as well, it was fairly decent and decently fair but it did seem to miss quite a few nuances.
>>18751729Any specific inaccuracies that come to mind? Listened to that ep a few days ago.
>>18751578I'm more of books guy although I listened to In Our Time and a few others.
>>18751735I had to go and relisten to the part just to make sure I don't misquote them but the principle nuance they miss is concerning the legacy of Stalin, the Conservative and the Moderate opposition in regards to Gorbachev and the way they frame Gorbachev's fall from power as being tied primarily to his inability to order the use of force. It's relatively inconsequential to the wider story of Gorbachev and Yeltsin but they imply Nina Andreyeva and the cultural hardliners are simply "anti-wokeists" and they make a rather ham-fisted, though momentary, comparison on the issue of statues being removed. It is little moment that simply handwaves away and entire aspect of the late era Soviet social disruption. They likewise seem to boil down the resistance by the wider Communist Party to Glasnost and Perestroika as being rooted primarily in power preservation rather then actual disagreement over policy. It is not necessarily a bad rule of thumb to engage with that era through that lens but it is a disservice when you are trying to talk about the actual history. Figures like Ligachev could have been examined to show that Gorbachev wasn't simply opposed by corrupt Conservative apparatchiks clinging to power.
I'm not usually into podcasts, but recently I've been listening to In Our Time. Obviously for 45 minutes they're not getting too deep into the topic, but for general casual info on some things it's alright.I'm currently listening to a 4-parter on Darwin's life.
The Rest is History like all podcasts is entertainment. I enjoy it and they have good banter / chemistry, but that's what it is, not deep informative content. In fact Sandbrook has said this in interviews, that he gets frustrated that they reference all these books on the show but no one seems to read them, his fans just listen to an episode and think they now know about the topic. He's right that you really ought to read in order to understand history, rather than podcasts or audiobooks.That being said Apostolic Majesty on YouTube is interesting for reactionary takes on history.
>>18751681Please suggest some academic conferences
Speaking of conferences, I think this thread would also benefit from more inclusions of some recommendations of conferences and online lectures, which are much more likely to present information in a much more informative and educative way than the average casual podcast. I also wish to know of more conferences. I recently found one from the Institute of Ismaili studies that was mainly on Fatimid Sicily that was being streamed via Zoom two days ago, but I sadly missed it and I don't think they upload any recordings. The topics discussed were very intriguing and sought to address obscurity of the history.I also found a really neat small channel, from what I think is a Kuwaiti Museum, called the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah that has a lot of videos of scholarly speakers giving lectures on history and other topics. As for podcasts, I really really recommend the Near East by Midwest Podcast. The host really knows her stuff and was actually a student of one of the professors she invited to the podcast, so the discussion feels very informative and not so casual where it just feels like entertainment.
Not a podcast but thoughts on youtube channel 'esoterica'
>>18752227Hilarious considering both of them have research assistants to do the running around archives and reading for them.
If you want an ongoing history podcast as a single narrative instead of jumping from topic to topic, I'd tentatively recommend The Siecle, a podcast about 1814-1914 France. Goes into a good bit of detail on a wide variety of relevant topics in chronological order (as an example, episode 30, the last one I finished, is an hour long about the Greek Revolution with an emphasis on French involvement). Guy has kinda an annoying voice and seems to be a wannabe Mike Duncan, but on the other hand he's obviously read a lot on the topics he covers* and there's a lot of backlogged content for commutes/workouts/etc.*https://thesiecle.com/bibliography/Also if you haven't listened to The History of Rome, the good series of Revolutions, and the mainline History of Byzantium episodes you should, they're complete so no chance of having to wait for new episodes (technically Revolutions is supposed to be coming back but that's broken up into series/seasons so unless you're looking for post Bolshevik revolutions it don't matter)
>>18752227Most people have day jobs and can't spend 12 hours reading a phone book thick PHD thesis on debasement of Byzantine coinage 1235-1309.
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>>18751581Duncan's History of Rome I listened to in a "pirate edit" where several episodes were pasted together in 2h pieces. nice to fall asleep to. I tried the "follow up" by some other guy about the eastern roman empire/byzantium, but I got bored because that topic is somehow way less interesting to me.Rest is History is peak comfy. They just have good chemistry, built a good "lore" of the show (their personas, recurring gags) and by jumping so wildly in topics I get stuff I never heard of and then a deep dive on things I know a little about and then something I mostly know but get new perspective or entertaining tidbits.And I like that it is apologetically anglocentric. Despite being from Europe, I know very little about UK history between WW2 and the GWOT.>>18751681Fall of Civilizations is also great to fall asleep to.>>18753175Revolutions was interesting, but I tried to listen to Haiti again and I just hate how chopped it is. Especially the early episodes are too short for my taste. Same problem I had with the early HoRome episodes.Hardcore History is the OG. Death Throws of the Republic was so good.
>>18753175>Guy has kinda an annoying voiceis it worse than history on fire? Looked interesting topic wise, but I know Italians that find his accent too italian to bear.
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>>18751578This podcast should be called "the rest is (English) (Christian) history". Never even seen them talk about anything else.
>>18751578This is pretty good. It is not a history of England but a history of the language.It starts with the history of the proto indo European language and mixes a lot of history in with it .
>>18754128nothing else matters
