Special Episode: Prof. Gary Gerstle - A Career in Reflection
Gary Gerstle, the outgoing Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge and author of multiple award winning books including American Crucible, Liberty and Coercion, and, most recently, the ...
17 Jul 20241h 12min
Dr. Lila Chambers, 'Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1580-1737'
Dr. Lila Chambers, research fellow at Gonville and Cauis College, Cambridge, joins Shea Hendry and Hugh Wood to discuss her upcoming book, Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the Britis...
3 Jul 202432min
Prof. Steven Hahn, 'Illiberal America: A History'
Prof. Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, joins Fergus Seldson Games and Hugh Wood to talk about his new work, Illiberal America: A History. Offered as a corrective to Louis Hartz's classic...
26 Jun 202439min
Prof. Daniel Widener, 'The Dream of a Common Language: Afterlives of U.S. Thirdworldism'
Daniel Widener is a Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Black Arts West and the book under discussion today: Third Worlds Within: multiethnic movements...
19 Jun 202436min
Prof. Erika Lee, 'Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America'
Erika Lee, this year’s Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, Bae Family Professor of History, and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, joins Fergus...
12 Jun 202428min
Prof. Arianne Sedef Urus, 'Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries'
Arianne Sedef Urus, Assistant Professor of Early American History and Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss cod fisheries, early modern empires, and Indige...
5 Jun 202438min
Prof. Manfred Berg, 'The Right to Bear Arms: Guns, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement'
Prof. Manfred Berg, Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss the 2nd Amendment, mass shootings, the militia movement, and t...
29 Mai 202434min
Dr. Erik Mathisen, 'The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party'
Dr. Erik Mathisen joins Hugh Wood and Rob O'Sullivan to discuss his paper "The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party." Dr. Mathisen places the idea of Free Labor within a globa...
30 Apr 202426min
