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Chinese Studies
November 21, 2019
Blood Letters
The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
Lian Xi
Hosted by Albert Zambone
In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education. Years before, she had –at approximately the …
Popular Culture
November 14, 2019
Before the Refrigerator
How We Used to Get Ice
Jonathan Rees
Hosted by Albert Zambone
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America. It was Tudor who realized that ice, harvested from New England ponds and rivers could be shipped to the Caribbean …
Literary Studies
November 7, 2019
Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
John Shelton Reed
Hosted by Albert Zambone
John Shelton Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology (emeritus) at the University of North Carolina, has been observing the South for decades. This week he and Al Zambone …
American Studies
October 31, 2019
Up the Trail
How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
Timothy Lehman
Hosted by Albert Zambone
In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri. In Indian Territory, he …
Food
October 24, 2019
Cuisine and Empire
Cooking in World History
Rachel Laudan
Hosted by Albert Zambone
With Al Zambone this week is Rachel Laudan, author of the fascinating Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (University of California Press, 2015). Once a historian of science and …
American Studies
October 17, 2019
The Lost Region
Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Jon K. Lauck
Hosted by Albert Zambone
The guest this week on Historically Thinking is Jon Lauck. He’s the author of The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (University of Iowa Press, 2013), which is …
American Studies
October 10, 2019
Wanamaker’s Temple
The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store
Nicole C. Kirk
Hosted by Albert Zambone
"On Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stood in the middle of his elaborately decorated department store building in Philadelphia as shoppers milled around him picking up last minute Christmas presents …
Popular Culture
July 24, 2019
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Vicki Howard
Hosted by Albert Zambone
This week we take a break from fun and games to talk about business and consumerism–which, to be sure, is for some people also fun and games. As Vicki Howard …
Food
July 17, 2019
Bourbon Justice
How Whiskey Law Shaped America
Brian Haara
Hosted by Albert Zambone
Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States. Given that longevity, it has been part of the corporate law of the United States since the …
Art
July 10, 2019
Object Lessons
How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World
Sarah Anne Carter
Hosted by Albert Zambone
The metaphor “object lesson” is a familiar one, still in everyday use. But what exactly does the metaphor refer to? In her book Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to …
European Studies
July 3, 2019
Petrarch's War
Florence and the Black Death in Context
William Caferro
Hosted by Albert Zambone
In 1349 the City-Republic of Florence had just endured a horrific epidemic of bubonic plague, that contagion that became known as the Black Death. Nevertheless, despite the effects upon both …
Art
June 26, 2019
Treasures Afoot
Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era
Kimberly Alexander
Hosted by Albert Zambone
“Fashion is universal,” writes my guest Kimberly Alexander in her book Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), “enabling historians across time, place, and …