About Tom Cryer

Thomas Cryer is a PhD Student in American History at University College London, where he studies race, nationhood, and memory through the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin. @ThomasOCryer

Thomas Cryer is a PhD Student in American History at University College London, where he studies race, nationhood, and memory through the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin. @ThomasOCryer

NBN Episodes hosted by Tom:

Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)

December 18, 2023

Contesting Commemoration

Jack D. Noe
Hosted by Tom Cryer

Examining identity and nationalism in the Reconstruction-era South, Jack Noe’s Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and th…

Cody D. Ewert, "Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

November 21, 2023

Making Schools American

Cody D. Ewert
Hosted by Tom Cryer

In recent years, public schools have become one of the central battlegrounds of American politics. Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin…

Tamson Pietsch, "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

November 5, 2023

The Floating University

Tamson Pietsch
Hosted by Tom Cryer

A globe-trotting and scandal-ridden story of American empire and higher education, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Kn…

Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)

October 26, 2023

Radical Roots

Denise D. Meringolo
Hosted by Tom Cryer
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Uncovering a radical tradition at the heart of public history within the United States, Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justic…

Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

October 25, 2023

From Union Halls to the Suburbs

Scott Kamen
Hosted by Tom Cryer
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For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-le…