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Women's History May 21, 2023

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers …

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Genocide Studies May 12, 2023

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Bedross Der Matossian

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses …
French Studies May 1, 2023

Marianne Is Watching

Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State

Deborah Bauer

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
In the wake of its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the French Third Republic sought to rebuild its strength to avenge its defeat and secure itself as a major …
American West April 23, 2023

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

Hosted by Andrew Graybill
In Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (U Nebraska Press, 2023) renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital …
Women's History March 18, 2023

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975

Giusi Russo

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
In Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Giusi Russo focuses on the first decades of the United Nations Commission on the …
Geography February 15, 2023

Hydronarratives

Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

Matthew S. Henry

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and …
Sports February 5, 2023

New Kids in the World Cup

The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever

Adam Elder

Hosted by Robert Sherwood
In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mulleted, they were America’s …
General History February 4, 2023

Empire and Catastrophe

Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954

Spencer D. Segalla

Hosted by Michael Vann
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 (U Nebraska Press, 2021) explores natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization …
Latin American Studies January 31, 2023

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban …
American West January 22, 2023

Taking the Field

Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Amy Kohout

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The US military didn't just conquer its way across the US West and the Pacific - it also collected and categorized across these spaces too. In Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature …
African Studies January 17, 2023

Contesting French West Africa

Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950

Harry Gamble

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researched study reveals, the expanding school …
American West January 3, 2023

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the …
American West December 21, 2022

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

Brenden W. Rensink

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century …
American West December 17, 2022

Cattle Beet Capital

Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado

Michael Weeks

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community …
American West November 22, 2022

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Paul Barba

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Most of what people think they know about Texas history is wrong, argues Bucknell University history professor Paul Barba in Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery in the Texas …
Psychoanalysis November 17, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Matthew Pieknik
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …
Popular Culture November 14, 2022

Aquaman and the War Against Oceans

Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

Ryan Poll

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Aquaman and the War against Oceans (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Ryan Poll explores ways the New 52 reimagining of Aquaman--a massive overhaul and rebranding of all DC Comics--transformed the …
Anthropology September 27, 2022

Franz Boas

The Emergence of the Anthropologist

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Hosted by Alex Golub
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with creating the modern field …
Gender Studies September 13, 2022

Transmovimientos

Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez, and Magda García

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of …
American West August 24, 2022

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Before 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion in California was illegal for both doctors performing and women seeking the procedure. In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in …