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Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Reckoning with Jason Herbert is a long-form conversation podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.Each episode features historians, writers, scientists, and thinkers in wide-ranging conversations about wild places, forgotten pasts, cultural memory, and the forces—human and natural—that continue to shape our lives.This isn’t a news cycle show or a debate podcast. It’s a space for reflection, curiosity, and serious conversation—meant to be listened to slowly.If you’re

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77:49

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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76:03

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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78:41

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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22:27

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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73:19

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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8:18

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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90:30

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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112:26

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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29:49

Episode 138: The Comanches Are Coming!

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2025/06/25

Talking about my weekend trip with Comanche youths, along with some of my experiences with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Kiowa Tribe, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

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101:23

The Princess Bride with John Wyatt Greenlee,...

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2025/06/19

This week John Wyatt Greenlee returns as guest host and he’s looking for a six fingered man.

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67:10

Episode 136: Diggstown and How Boxing became a...

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2025/06/12

This week, our friend Dr Lou Moore drops in to talk about Diggstown and his work tracing black boxing from the end of the Civil War into the 20th century.

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67:23

Episode 135: Saving Private Ryan with Dr. Paul Thomas...

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2025/06/05

This week Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin drops in to talk about the history behind Operation Overlord and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. About our guest: Paul Chamberlin specializes in twentieth century international history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations and the Middle East. His first book, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford, 2012), is an international history of the Palestinian libera...

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55:02

Episode 134: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein...

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2025/06/04

Today neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Kieran Fox joins in to talk about the spiritual journey of Albert Einstein. About our guest: Dr. Kieran Fox is a neuroscientist (PhD 2016) and doctor (MD 2023), currently training to be a psychiatrist in the Research Resident Training Program at the University of California San Francisco. His research over the next few years will focus on the neural mechanisms and clinical potential of psychedelic medicines. During medical school, he used intracranial...

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87:21

Mission Impossible: The Reckoningest Pod Ever with...

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2025/05/28

This week Justin Rawlins and Craig Bruce Smith drop in to talk about Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and their thoughts on the MI franchise.

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72:08

Episode 132: Conversations with Women Filmmakers with...

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2025/05/22

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Episode 131: The history of axe murder with Rachel...

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2025/05/20

Today Rachel McCarthy James drops in to talk about the development of the axe and the myriad of ways it has been used to dispatch people and empires over the years. About our guest: Rachel McCarthy James was born and raised in Kansas, the daughter of baseball’s Bill James and artist Susan McCarthy. She graduated from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, where she studied writing and politics. Her first nonfiction book, The Man from the Train, was written in collaboration with her father and pub...

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Welcome to Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Reckoning with Jason Herbert ·

2025/05/19

It's a new day here at the podcast. Historians At The Movies Podcast is now Reckoning with Jason Herbert. We're opening up our focus and the things we talk about here.

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78:17

Emergency Pod: The Majesty of Andor with Dr. Alan...

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2025/05/15

Andor is the greatest Star Wars we've ever seen on any screen and it's not close. My close friend Alan Malfavon joins in to talk about the brilliance of this show, what it means to us, and what we hope to see next. About our guest: Alan Malfavon resituates Mexico’s socio-political, cultural, and economic networks with the Atlantic World and the Greater Caribbean, and it dissects and problematizes those networks by centering the Black and Afro-Mexican experience. His research interrogates and ...

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