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General History July 30, 2021

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Jennifer Holland (Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Susan Johnson (Harry Reid Endowed Chair, History of the Intermountain West, University of Las Vegas-Nevada) about Johnson’s recent book, Writing Kit Carson …

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American West July 21, 2021

West of Slavery

The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

Kevin Waite

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The geography of American slavery was continental, argues Dr. Kevin Waite, an assistant professor at Durham University, in West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC Press, 2021). Rather …
General History June 30, 2021

The First Reconstruction

Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

Van Gosse

Hosted by Jessica Georges
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African …
General History June 14, 2021

Religion and the American Revolution

An Imperial History

Katherine Carté

Hosted by Lane Davis
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex …
Sociology June 9, 2021

Tainted Tap

Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work June 3, 2021

Porn Work

Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Heather Berg

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what …
Latino Studies May 24, 2021

The Shadow of El Centro

A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity

Jessica Ordaz

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona, has made it …
African American Studies May 21, 2021

Jamaica Ladies

Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

Christine Walker

Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2020) is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of …
Performing Arts May 21, 2021

Staging Indigeneity

Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History

Katrina Phillips

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American …
General History May 19, 2021

Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925

David Monod

Hosted by Sam Backer
Vaudeville is one of the most famous styles of theater in American history, a font of showbiz legend and the training ground for a generation of stars. It’s also one …
Political Science May 10, 2021

Unceasing Militant

The Life of Mary Church Terrell

Alison M. Parker

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Dr. Alison M. Parker’s new book Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) explores the life of civil rights activist and feminist, Mary …
Performing Arts May 10, 2021

Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

Kate Dossett

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Kate Dossett's book Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (UNC Press, 2020) turns conventional understandings of the Federal Theatre Project on its head. This book shines a light on the …
American West May 7, 2021

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The only constant in Western history is change. Susan Lee Johnson, Harry Reid Endowed Chair in the History of the Intermountain West at UNLV, knows this better than most. Author of …
Medicine May 5, 2021

Examining Tuskegee

The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Susan M. Reverby

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Some books are new, others are newly relevant – and so worth looking at from a new, contemporary perspective. Such is the case with Susan Reverby’s book Examining Tuskegee: The …
Performing Arts April 30, 2021

Sweet Tea

A Play

E. Patrick Johnson

Hosted by Andy Boyd
E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea has been a monograph, a documentary film, a stage play, and now a published script from Northwestern University Press.  This play weaves together interviews Johnson conducted …
African American Studies April 22, 2021

At the Threshold of Liberty

Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.

Tamika Y. Nunley

Hosted by Adam McNeil
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing …
Music April 19, 2021

Chronicling Stankonia

The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

Regina N. Bradley

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed …
General History April 19, 2021

A New Christian Identity

Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture

Amy B. Voorhees

Hosted by Lane Davis
In A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), Amy B. Voorhees contextualizes this American religious movement and argues that Christian Science …
LGBTQ+ Studies April 12, 2021

Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

Julio Capó Jr.

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)highlights how transnational forces—including (im)migration, trade, and tourism—to and from the Caribbean shaped Miami’s queer past. The book …
Christian Studies March 30, 2021

Christian Citizens

Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

Elizabeth L. Jemison

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Elizabeth L. Jemison, who teaches American religious history at Clemson University, South Carolina, has written an outstanding new book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South (University …