Dr. Michell Chresfield, 'It's in the Blood: Physical Anthropology, Genetics, and the Making of America's Triracial Isolates, 1950-1960'
Here's the second episode of Easter Term, which marks the midway point of our Easter seminars! Dr Michelle Chresfield, a lecturer in United States History at the University of Birmingham talks to Lewi...
7 Mai 201918min
Prof. Beverly Gage, 'G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the American Century'
We're back, with four episodes to close out the academic year! Professor Beverly Gage, Professor of History and American Studies and the Director Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale Univer...
30 Apr 201916min
Prof. David Blight, (Book Launch) 'Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom' Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (New York; Simon and Schuster: 2018)
Here is the last episode of term, and it’s a big one in every sense! Professor David Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History, and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of...
12 Mar 201952min
Prof. Susan Carruthers, '"Dear John": Love, Letters, and Loss in Wartime America'
The episodes keep coming! In episode six of Lent Term, Susan Carruthers, Professor of American Studies at Warwick University, talks to PhD student Clemency Anderson about her work and experiences as a...
5 Mar 201920min
Prof. Kate Masur, 'State Sovereignty and Migration Before Reconstruction'
Another week and another episode! This week Professor Kate Masur, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, speaks to Cambridge PhD student Jeanine Quené about her paper "State Sovere...
26 Feb 201925min
Prof. Andrew Hartman, 'Marx in America'
Lent term is whizzing by- here's the fourth episode of term! Dr Andrew Hartman, a professor of history at Illinois State University and the founding president of the Society for U.S. Intellectual Hist...
19 Feb 201927min
Prof. Karine Walther, 'Spreading the Faith: American Missionaries, ARAMCO and the Birth of the US-Saudi Special Relationship 1889-1955'
It's the third episode of Lent 2019, and a fascinating (and timely) conversation to boot!Karine Walther, Associate Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar speaks to recently submitted (congratulat...
12 Feb 201917min
Prof. Barbara Savage, 'Race, War, and Imperialism: Merze Tate's International Thought'
Back after a week’s sabbatical, here is the second episode of Lent term, and the first episode featuring a guest host! Barbara Savage, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and P...
5 Feb 201930min
