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Ministry of Ideas December 10, 2023

A Medieval Anti-Racist

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6

Hosted by Zachary Davis
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism and to the racial hierarchies …

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Interviews with scholars of Native America about their new books.

American West December 10, 2023

Urban Homelands

Writing the Native City from Oklahoma

Lindsey Claire Smith

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. In Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City …
Canadian Studies December 9, 2023

The Ends of Research

Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods

Tom Özden-Schilling

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (Duke University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tom Özden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives …
Ministry of Ideas December 8, 2023

Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4

Hosted by Zachary Davis
What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer past suggest an isolated and self-sufficient nuclear family as the center of American identity and the source …
Military History November 25, 2023

American Visions

The United States, 1800-1860

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 (Norton, 2023) is a revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant …
Native American Studies November 15, 2023

Remapping Sovereignty

Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought

David Myer Temin

Hosted by Lachlan McNamee
Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies in North America and Australasia, yet Native communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought and activism. David Myer Temin's book Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization …
Native American Studies November 14, 2023

Understanding and Teaching Native American History

Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
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Understanding and Teaching Native American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), co-edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction …
Anthropology November 11, 2023

Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain

Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana

Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom

Hosted by Nathan Moore
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana (UP of Colorado, 2023) explores five sacred journeys to the …
General History November 4, 2023

The Great Defiance

How the World Took on the British Empire

David Veevers

Hosted by Michael Vann
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far …
Irish Studies October 28, 2023

Indian, Black and Irish

Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790

James V. Fenelon

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
In this interview James Fenelon discusses his new book entitled Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790, recently published with Routledge (2023). The book traces 50 …
Military History October 14, 2023

Gallop Toward the Sun

Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

Peter Stark

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
The conquest of Indigenous land in the eastern United States through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. In Gallop Toward the …
American South October 13, 2023

Talking Back

Native Women and the Making of the Early South

Alejandra Dubcovsky

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American …
Academic Life October 12, 2023

Indigenous DC

A Conversation with Elizabeth Rule

Elizabeth Rule

Hosted by Christina Gessler
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Today’s book is Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s First Capital (Georgetown UP, 2023), by Dr. Elizabeth Rule, which is the first and fullest account of the suppressed history and …
General History October 9, 2023

The Republic Shall be Kept Clean

How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

Tariq D. Khan

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023) by Dr. Tariq D. Khan examines the long relationship between America’s colonising …
Academic Life September 21, 2023

A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories

Chelsea T. Hicks

Hosted by Christina Gessler
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Today’s book is A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories (The Unnamed Press, 2022) by Chelsea T. Hicks. The heroes of A Calm and Normal Heart are modern-day adventurers—seeking out new places to …
Literary Studies September 16, 2023

Emergency

Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis

Edgar Garcia

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Edgar Garcia. Garcia’s new book Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Emergency takes nine words—“birds,” “wealth,” “caves,” “television,” …
Mobilities and Methods August 25, 2023

Space-Time Colonialism

Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements

Juliana Hu Pegues

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
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As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire …
American West August 18, 2023

Peace and Friendship

An Alternative History of the American West

Stephen Aron

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
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The history of the American West has typically been told in one of two ways: as triumph, or as tragedy. Stephen Aron, accomplished scholar of the West, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, and …
American West August 6, 2023

The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

Erika Marie Bsumek

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River provides electricity for some forty million people, and is one of the largest sources of water in the American West. It is also …
Sports July 30, 2023

The Imperial Gridiron

Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom

Hosted by Bennett Koerber
The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School …