Dr. Noam Maggor, 'Escaping the Periphery: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy'
Dr. Noam Maggor, Senior Lecturer in American History at Queen Mary, joins the podcast to discuss the transformation of American capitalism in the late-C19th. We focus on railroad regulation as a tool ...
6 Mar 202427min
Prof. Jefferson Cowie, 'Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power'
We discuss the complex history of ‘freedom’ in American history with 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner Jefferson Cowie (Vanderbilt University).
28 Feb 202437min
Prof. Andrew Preston, 'A Bridge in Chicago: The New Deal and National Security'
Prof. Andrew Preston is joined by two of his supervisees, Sam and Caleb. They discuss his next book project, which is about the invention of national security in the New Deal period.
22 Feb 202435min
Prof. Stephanie Lewthwaite, 'Relational Memories: Latinx Art in New York City Since the 1970s'
Tune in for Latinx visual culture, New York's alternative 'artworlds' of the 1970s, Black Atlantic women artists and the nature of canonisation. Prof. Stephanie Lewthwaite is Associate Professor in Am...
14 Feb 202421min
Dr. Joanna Cohen, 'Hall’s Sympathies: Loss, Law, and the Limits of Feeling in Nineteenth Century America'
Dr. Joanna Cohen, Reader in American History at Queen Mary University of London, invites Fergus and Rob to consider some major problems in nineteenth century legal history and the history of capitalis...
5 Feb 202432min
Dr. Lewis Defrates, 'Neutrality by Absence: The Selective Repatriation of Americans at the Beginning of the First World War'
Dr. Lewis Defrates discusses his paper "Neutrality by Absence: The Selective Repatriation of Americans at the Beginning of the First World War." The paper describes how the U.S. government rushed to e...
19 Okt 202323min
Prof. Nick Guyatt, 'Writing American History in Uncertain Times'
Prof. Nick Guyatt, Caleb Woodall, and Hugh Wood discuss Nick's role as editor of the upcoming Oxford Illustrated History of the United States. We discuss the history and culture wars, the narratives t...
14 Aug 202350min
Prof. Richard J. M. Blackett, 'Looking For Samuel Ringgold Ward'
Richard J. M. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, joins Fergus and Shea to discuss the largely forgotten abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward.
7 Jul 202344min
