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NBN Episodes hosted by Arika:

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston" (UNC Press, 2011)

May 31, 2013

Forging Freedom

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

How were black women manumitted in the Old South, and how did they live their lives in freedom before the Civil War? Historian, Amrita Chakrabarti Mye…

Joy Porter, "Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America" (U Nebraska Press, 2011)

February 11, 2013

Native American Freemasonry

Joy Porter

Joy Porter is the author of Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). She has als…

Colin Calloway, "Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth" (Dartmouth College Press, 2012)

January 22, 2013

Indian History of an American Institution

Colin Calloway

Colin Calloway is one of the leading historians of Native American history today and an award- winning author. Calloway is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 …

Angela Pulley Hudson, "Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South" (UNC Press, 2010)

August 20, 2012

Creek Paths and Federal Roads

Angela Pulley Hudson

Most historians have understood Native American history through the use of the "middle ground" metaphor. Notably, historian Richard White used this me…

Christina Snyder, "Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2010)

July 18, 2012

Slavery in Indian Country

Christina Snyder

Most readers are probably more familiar with the context of slavery or captivity in the context the African slave trade than in the Americas. Some may…