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Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

How Climate Change Brought Rome to Its Knees

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08.27.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Ancient Traditions of the Middle East

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08.26.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Destruction of Ancient Sites

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08.24.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Adjunct Professor of Middle East history and politics in the School of International Service at American University, internationally recognized expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues, and co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Iraq.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Caliphates and the Empire of the Mind

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08.22.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Jonathan Lyons, author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Native Nations Before Europeans

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08.21.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

5000 Year History of Debt

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08.18.21

By Mitch Jeserich

David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The History of Time

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08.17.21

By Mitch Jeserich

David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of Bullshit Jobs

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Witches and Pagans: Women in History Part I

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08.17.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Max Dashu, author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100.  Max Dashu is also the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women’s history on a global scale.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Witches and Pagans: Women in History Part III

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08.16.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Max Dashu, author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100.  Max Dashu is also the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women’s history on a global scale.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Witches and Pagans: Women in History Part II

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08.16.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Max Dashu, author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100.  Max Dashu is also the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women’s history on a global scale.

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