Dr. Grace Mallon, 'Federalism for Beginners: Intergovernmental Relations and Interdependent Sovereignty after 1789'
Dr. Grace Mallon - Kinder Junior Research Fellow in Atlantic History, and fellow of University College, Oxford - joins Jasmin Bath and Hugh Wood to discuss the peculiarities and practicalities of fede...
7 Jun 202326min
Prof. Andrew Preston, 'The Iraq War: 20 Years On'
Prof. Andrew Preston discusses the causes and implications of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq with Fergus and Hugh.
31 Mai 202326min
Prof. Gregory Daddis, 'Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War in the Modern Era'
Prof. Daddis joins Caleb Woodall and Fergus Selsdon Games, both PhD candidates here at Cambridge, to discuss his forthcoming work Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War in the Modern Era. We ...
24 Mai 202332min
Dr. Meg Jacobs, 'The New Deal's AAA Reconsidered: State-Building from the Bottom Up'
For the final episode before Easter break, Dr. Meg Jacobs and Caleb Woodall join Hugh Wood to discuss the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Agency. We cover topics such as collectivism, coercion, and...
18 Mar 202338min
Prof. Emily West, 'Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in the Antebellum South'
This week, Prof. Emily West, from Reading University, and Meg Roberts, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, join Hugh Wood to discuss Prof. West's paper, "Enslaved Women and the Duality of ...
13 Mar 202337min
Prof. Sophie White, 'His Master's Grace": Extra-Judicial Violence in Atlantic Slave Societies'
This week, Prof. Sophie White and Will Johnson, an MPhil here at Cambridge, join Hugh Wood to discuss Prof. White's paper, "His Master's Grace": Extra-Judicial Violence in Atlantic Slave Societies." H...
3 Mar 202334min
Dr. Robert Lee, 'Indigenous Land and Sovereign Wealth in America: The Case of the Connecticut School Fund'
This week, Dr. Robert Lee and Megan Renoir join Hugh Wood to discuss indigenous dispossession, institution building, and the complexities of post-revolutionary governing. Here's a link to Dr. Lee's pr...
27 Feb 202343min
Dr. Emily Brady, '"I Didn't Know She Took Pictures": African American Women Photographers in the Long Civil Rights Movement'
Dr. Emily Brady - the Broadbent Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford - joins Marie Puysségur and Hugh Wood to discuss her work on African American Women photographers in the long ci...
7 Feb 202337min
