Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Professor Martha Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded po...
8 Sep 202041min
Accounting for Slavery
How did Southern slave-owners "manage" their plantations? Was it pastoral or was it more professional and driven by hard-headed accounting, record-keeping, and statistics? Professor Caitlin Rosenthal ...
1 Sep 202028min
Churchill: a Life in the News
Professor Richard Toye tells us how Churchill’s long life and career developed in parallel with the changes in the development of modern media and news. Churchill’s first career was as a journalist an...
25 Aug 202034min
Sound of Music - Movie Myths Monday!
Our first "Movie Myths Monday" episode! We look at the famous, and heart-warming musical, The Sound of Music, and discuss the historical accuracies and inaccuracies. What Captain Von Trapp a member of...
24 Aug 202020min
J. Marion Sims and Medical Experimentation on Enslaved Women
Advanced Placement student researchers from Caddo Parish Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana explain their research into the career of J. Marion Sims. His medical experiments on enslaved women...
18 Aug 202039min
Albert Battel - Man Crush Monday!
Your favorite Professor, Philip Nash, tells us about Albert Battel, a German Army lieutenant and lawyer recognized for his resistance during World War II to the Nazi plans for the 1942 liquidation of ...
17 Aug 202010min
League of Wives: the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Historian Heath Hardage Lee tells us the remarkable story of Sybil Stockdale, Jane Denton, Louise Mulligan, and other wives of American Navy and Air Force pilots who pressured the LBJ and Nixon admini...
11 Aug 202032min
Arleen Lorrance “Be the Change…” Special Episode!
Our Quote or No Quote episodes are roaring back with the most important person we've ever interviewed -- Arleen Lorrance, the teacher and social innovator who created the "be the change you want to se...
5 Aug 202025min
