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General History
January 4, 2021
Her Neighbor's Wife
A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who …
General History
October 17, 2019
Double Crossed
The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Matthew Avery Sutton
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services …
General History
September 5, 2019
Debating the American State
Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970
Anne M. Kornhauser
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and …
General History
September 5, 2019
Donkey Work
Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994
Patrick Andelic
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? In many political histories, the McGovern defeat of 1972 announced the party’s decline—and the conservative movement’s ascent. What the conventional narrative …
General History
August 27, 2019
Dying to Be Normal
Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
Brett Krutzsch
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered …
General History
August 26, 2019
Herman Melville
Among the Magazines
Graham Thompson
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
"What I feel most moved to write, that is banned―it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the otherway I cannot." Herman Melville wrote these words as he struggled to survive …
General History
August 7, 2019
Getting Tough
Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social …
General History
August 1, 2019
Policing the Open Road
How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Sarah A. Seo
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah …
General History
July 15, 2019
Before AIDS
Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
Katie Batza
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical …
General History
July 12, 2019
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Marc Stein
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein's book Sexual Injustice (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) examines the generally liberal rulings on birth …
General History
July 8, 2019
This Is Our Message
Women's Leadership in the New Christian Right
Emily S. Johnson
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
Over the past 50 years, the architects of the religious right have become household names: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson. They have used their massively influential platforms to build …
General History
July 2, 2019
Anointed with Oil
How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Darren Dochuk
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic Books, 2019) places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from …
General History
June 26, 2019
Bad Girls
Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
Amanda Littauer
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
In her innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), Amanda Littauer …
General History
June 24, 2019
The Rebel Café
Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground
Stephen R. Duncan
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife―from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians―have long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel Café …
General History
May 14, 2019
Reforming Sodom
Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
Heather R. White
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's …
General History
April 25, 2019
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Nancy Tomes
Hosted by
Stephen Colbrook
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it …
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