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Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Conversations about history, pop culture, and the American story with award winning historian and outdoorsman Dr. Jason Herbert.

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Episode 156: Dr. Kevin Gannon

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2025/10/20

This week my friend Kevin Gannon drops in to talk about his career in history education, how education has changed, what to do about A.I., and the role of social media as a scholar. This is a cool conversation with one of the coolest dudes I know. About our guest: Dr. Kevin Gannon is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. From 2014-22, he served as Director of the Center for Excellence in Te...

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66:36

Episode 155: 13 Days, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and...

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2025/10/16

For 13 days beginning on October 16, 1962 the world teetered on total nuclear destruction. Today, Dr. Renata Keller joins in to talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis, how it is depicted in the film 13 Days, and how the events played out in Latin America. This is a deep dive into arguably the most consequential two weeks in world history. About our guest: Dr. Renata Keller specializes in Latin American and Cold War history. Her second book, The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and ...

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70:02

Episode 154: Comanche Nation Chairman Forrest...

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2025/10/13

Comanche Chairman Forrest Tahdooahnippah joins in to talk about Comanche history, culture, and so much more. We had a chance to talk about the legal relationships between Tribal nations and the United States, the importance of language preservation, what it’s like to lead a Tribe, thoughts on how Comanche people have been portrayed on film, and how historians and others can conduct ethical scholarship in Indian Country. This was a really wonderful conversation and I’m so thankful to the Chair...

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106:12

Episode 153: Notting Hill with Kate Sheppard and...

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2025/10/08

This week Kate Sheppard and Colin Colbourn return to ask if Notting Hill is the greatest romcom of its generation. About our guests: Dr. Kathleen Sheppard earned her PhD in History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. After a post-doctoral teaching fellowship at the American University in Cairo, she arrived at Missouri S&T in the fall of 2011. She teaches mainly survey courses on modern Western Civilizations, which is arguably one of the most important courses students in 2...

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102:40

Episode 152: “That’s not a knife. Now that’s a...

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2025/08/20

This week Historians At The Movies goes Down Under to talk about 1986's Crocodile Dundee and we are doing it with the founders of Historians At The Movies: Australia: Chelsea Barnett and Joel Barnes. This movie is everything HATM was designed for: taking something fun and then pointing out everything we can take from it. This was a blast to record. About our guests: Dr Chelsea Barnett is a gender and cultural historian whose work explores the representation of masculinities in Australian pop...

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Episode 151: Gangs of New York with Tyler Anbinder

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2025/08/14

This week Tyler Anbinder joins in to talk about his experiences advising on Gangs of New York as well as his work tracing the Irish diaspora. About our guest: Tyler Anbinder is a specialist in nineteenth-century America and the history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. His latest book, published in March 2024 by Little, Brown, is entitled Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York. That project's digital history component, created with research as...

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Episode 150: The Secret Weapon to Finish Your Ph.D.

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2025/08/12

Today my friend, Dr. Eric Becklin, defended his dissertation. And around here, we celebrate the wins. I talk about the process of graduate school and how important friends are to getting you to the finish line.

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Episode 149: Confederate Monuments with Dr. Karen Cox

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2025/08/08

Dr. Karen Cox drops in to talk about the Trump Administration's plans to reinstall two former Confederate monuments, along with the Lost Cause mythology, and how we think about the Civil War. About our guest: Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is the author of four books, the editor or co-editor of two volumes on southern history and has written numerous essays and articles, including an essay for the ...

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Episode 148: Is Jeremiah Johnson just 70s Mountain...

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2025/08/06

This week Dr. Jacob Lee joins in to talk about the real Jeremiah Johnson—and why Redford’s version may be a fantasy. About our guest: Jacob Lee is a historian of early America and the American West, focusing on colonialism and borderlands. His first book, Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi (Harvard University Press, 2019), embedded intertwined Native and imperial histories in the physical landscape of Middle America, a vast region e...

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67:30

Episode 147: Jason and Thomas are dead men

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2025/08/05

Jason and Thomas recap their voyages to destinations unknown: San Diego and Minnesota's Boundary Waters, plus Thomas and Jason discuss the excitement of fall semesters on campus.

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Episode 146: Thelma and Louise with Jacki Antonovich...

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2025/07/30

This week we return to the vault to bring you Ridley Scott's unexpected western masterpiece: Thelma and Louise.

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Episode 145: The Running Man with Craig Bruce Smith...

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2025/07/24

This week Craig Bruce Smith and Robert Greene II join in to talk about our favorite dystopian films, why this film slips under the radar, and what it was like when Craign recently met Arnold himself.

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Episode 144: Superman (2025) with John Wyatt...

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2025/07/16

This week John Wyatt Greenlee, Colin Colbourn, and Alan Malfavon flyover to talk about James Gunn’s Superman, the need for heroes in everyday lives, and casting the rest of the DCU. About our guests: Alan Malfavon is Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Marcos. His first book, Men of the Leeward Port: Veracruz’s Afro-Descendants in the Making of Mexico, under contract with the University of Alabama Press, focuses on the understudied Afro-Mexican population o...

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54:47

Episode 143: A Human History of the Sahara Desert...

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2025/07/14

This week social anthropologist Dr. Judith Scheele joins in from France to talk about her decades of research into the diverse and fascinating peoples and places of the Sahara Desert. About our guest: Judith Scheele is professor of social anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS). She has spent almost two decades living in and researching Saharan societies. The author of three previous books, she now lives in M...

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Episode 142: Seven Years of Historians At The Movies

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2025/07/13

Looking back at the last seven years of HATM, along with my plans for the future.

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Episode 141: F1 with Dr. Sarah Myers and Dr. Colin...

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2025/07/10

This week, two of my favorite people in the world join in to talk about Brad Pitt’s new film, F1 while they try to convert me into a Formula One racing fan. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s start our engines.

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Episode 141: The Most Dangerous Word in the English...

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2025/07/08

If you want to move forward, get rid of it.

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Episode 140: American Mythmaking on Film: The Patriot...

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2025/07/03

We're enjoying the holiday this week so we thought we'd bring one back from the vault. This week Dr. Craig Bruce Smith and Dr. Robert Greene II and I talk about Mel Gibson's The Patriot, the role of constructed memory in national identity, and the ethics of making historical dramas.

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10:44

Parenting at 47

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2025/06/29

It’s pretty frustrating.

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Episode 139: Black Hawk Down with Dr. Jonathan Carroll

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2025/06/26

This week military historian Dr. Jonathan Carroll drops in to talk about Black Hawk Down and his new book Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995. About our guest: Jonathan Carroll is a former officer in the Irish Defence Forces who earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an associate professor of military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

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