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American West May 12, 2022

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877

Ryan Hall

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assistant professor Ryan Hall in Beneath the Backbone of …

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African American Studies May 10, 2022

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

An Artist's Reckoning with the South

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the artistic life of Romare Bearden …
Medicine April 28, 2022

Medicalizing Blackness

Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Rana A. Hogarth

Hosted by Laura Stark
Medicine and slavery went hand-in-hand. But what was the nature of this vile partnership? In Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (UNC Press, 2017), Rana Hogarth …
Chinese Studies April 5, 2022

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

Hosted by Clara Iwasaki
Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (UNC Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African …
Islamic Studies April 1, 2022

Hajj to the Heart

Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean

Scott Kugle

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In his new book, Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) and is available as an open-access enhanced edition, Scott Kugle follows …
African American Studies March 25, 2022

A Nation of Descendants

Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History

Francesca Morgan

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
In A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), historian Francesca Morgan tracks Americans’ obsession with tracing family ancestry. Morgan …
American South March 17, 2022

The Ballad of Robert Charles

Searching for the New Orleans Riot Of 1900

K. Stephen Prince

Hosted by Brandon Jett
For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New …
Intellectual History February 22, 2022

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous …
Catholic Studies February 1, 2022

The Laywoman Project

Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era

Mary J. Henold

Hosted by Allison Isidore
In The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era (UNC Press, 2020), Mary J. Henold considers how these committed parishioners experienced their religion in the wake of Vatican …
African American Studies January 28, 2022

Jumping the Broom

The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual

Tyler D. Parry

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual (UNC Press, 2020), Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding." Popularly associated with …
American South January 26, 2022

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

Hosted by Brandon Jett
When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists January 3, 2022

Spectacle of Grief

Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Sarah J. Purcell

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (UNC Press, 2022) examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories …
General History December 27, 2021

The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson

Hosted by Catriona Gold
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state …
Political Science December 20, 2021

Beyond Slavery's Shadow

Free People of Color in the South

Warren E. Milteer, Jr.

Hosted by Susan Liebell
We often focus on enslaved people of color but Dr. Warren E. Milteer Jr.’s Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021) directs our attention …
General History December 16, 2021

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

Hosted by Derek Litvak
Samantha Seeley is the author of Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, published by the University of North Carolina Press in …
Sociology December 10, 2021

Public Confessions

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Rebecca L. Davis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Rebecca L. Davis's …
African American Studies November 30, 2021

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

African American Children in the Antebellum North

Crystal Webster

Hosted by Adam McNeil
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by …
Latin American Studies November 30, 2021

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

From Metalworker to President of Brazil

John D. French

Hosted by Candela Marini
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at …
Native American Studies November 29, 2021

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

Hosted by John Cable
Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined …
Women's History November 19, 2021

Her Cold War

Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Tanya L. Roth's Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explains that while Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after …