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NBN Episodes hosted by Beth:
July 10, 2020
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms (University of California Press, 2020) is the first in-depth look at the …
June 24, 2020
The Southern Key
The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lie…
April 15, 2020
Red, Black, White
Mary Stanton's Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950 (University of Georgia Press, 2019) is the first narrative history of the Ame…
April 3, 2020
Knocking on Labor’s Door
Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, discusses her book, Knocking o…
March 27, 2020
To Live Here, You Have to Fight
Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, discusses her book, To Live Here, You Have to…
March 20, 2020
From South Texas to the Nation
John Weber, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, discusses his book, From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican…
March 13, 2020
Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South
Professors Melissa Walker of Converse College and Giselle Roberts of Australia’s La Trobe University, editors of the Women’s Diaries and Letters of th…
February 28, 2020
Baptized in PCBs
Professor Ellen Griffith Spears of the University of Alabama, author of Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (Univer…
February 26, 2020
Politics of the Pantry
The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroo…
February 21, 2020
The Hamlet Fire
Bryant Simon, Professor of History at Temple University, discusses his new book, The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap L…
February 14, 2020
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, Professors of History at California State University—Fresno, discuss their co-authored book, Denmark Vesey’s Garden:…
February 7, 2020
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Professor Blain Roberts of California State University, Fresno, talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging…
January 31, 2020
Disaster Citizenship
Professor Jacob Remes of SUNY Empire State College discusses his book, Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (…
January 24, 2020
Standing Their Ground
Professor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2013…
January 17, 2020
Hillbilly Hellraisers
Blake Perkins, assistant professor of history at Williams Baptist College, discusses his new book, Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist D…
January 14, 2020
Sisters and Rebels
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth r…
January 10, 2020
Reform or Repression
Professor Chad Pearson of Collin College, author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, …
January 3, 2020
Masterless Men
Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and interse…
December 27, 2019
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and…
December 20, 2019
Chained in Silence
Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her book, Chained in Silence: Black …
December 13, 2019
Dollars for Dixie
Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transforma…
December 6, 2019
Reconsidering Southern Labor History
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of…
November 29, 2019
The Fruits of Their Labor
Today Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured serva…
November 22, 2019
Striking Beauties
Professor Michelle Haberland of Georgia Southern University, author of Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South (University of Georg…