An Incomplete History

Jan 22 2024 25 ep. 66 mins 10

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This is a weekly podcast hosted by two early career PhDs - Hilary and Geoff. Join them as they discuss and debate contemporary and historical events and seek to provide context. The two cover history and historical memory as well as public history and the unique challenges facing history educators in the 21st century.

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Episode 58 - The Fourteenth Amendment

Jan 22 2024 58 mins

We are back! Here is our 58 episode. We promise to get new epsiodes out at least every other week. This week we're discussing the 14th Amendement. It has been in the news lately and we felt everyone could benefit from a bit of context.

Episode 57 - The Supreme Court After 1898

Jan 30 2023 59 mins

Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade, Loving v Virginia - Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century have affected the lives of Americans in a myriad of ways. There were repudiations of prior decisions and expansions of how Constitutional protections were understood. There were unanimous decisions and ones more fraught with dissension in the court. Join us for this episode as we

Episode 56 - The US Supreme Court from Taney to Plessy v Ferguson

Oct 24 2022 63 mins

Welcome to part two of our three-part series on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. In this episode we discuss the Taney court (1836-1864) through the Fuller court (1888-1910). We break down two of the most landmark decisions of these courts with a discussion of Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857) and Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896). Join us for a discussion of judicial overreach, precurs

Episode 55 - The US Supreme Court - Jay to Marshall

Oct 17 2022 64 mins

The justices that sit on the US Supreme Court may be nine of the most powerful unelected officials in the world. Join us for the first of a multi-part deep dive into the story of the US Supreme. We'll cover that origins of the court as well as critical people and cases that fundamentally shaped the contemporary legal, political, economic, and social landscape of America. This week

Episode 54 - Presentism

Oct 10 2022 74 mins

Join us as we kick off An Incomplete History season 3 with a discussion of presentism. This week, we do a deep dive into the divisive debate happening within the field of history as the result of the American Historical Association’s president who wrote an opinion piece regarding our role as historians. The piece received extreme backlash leading to the AHA having to lock their T

Episode 53 - A Brief History of NATO

Mar 19 2022 67 mins

The current conflict in Ukraine has raised a lot of questions about Post-World War II Europe, the creation of strategic alliances in the second-half of the twentieth century, and the collpase of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the effect it had on those relationships. At the center of many of these discussions sits NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Join us for this ep

Episode 52 - More about the News

Mar 08 2022 64 mins

We continue our series on the history of the news and journalism in the United States with a look at the CNN Effect and the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle. How has it changed the way American's receive and respond to the news? Join us this week to find out.

Episode 51 - The History of Newspapers and the News

Mar 01 2022 61 mins

Politicians and journalists alike often claim Americans are more divided now than at any point in the nation's past. Pundits and commentators point to the stark divisions in the news media we voraciously consume. MSNBC and Fox present strikingly different views on almost every subject. But is this really something new? Join us as we take a dive into the tawdry and titillating histo

Episode 50 - Medicine in the US Civil War

Oct 27 2021 56 mins

In this episode Hilary and Geoff discuss common misconceptions about medicine during the Civil War. They also talk about key advances that take place in medical professionalization, surgergy, the treatement of diseases, and even the expanding role of women.

Episode 49 - A History of Medicine - Part 1

Sep 27 2021 63 mins

So, this week we start an extended series about the history of medicine. We start in Ancient Egypt and move around the Mediterranean finally ending up in Colonial America. Along the way we discuss the idea of bodily humors, the principal of extractive therapy, as well as the naissance of scientific approaches to medicine. We also discuss the critical and often unwilling role margin