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
Prof. Bruce J. Schulman, 'From the 'Smoke Filled Room' to the 'Singing Teapot': Women Voters and the Transformation of American Politics, 1924-1928'
This week, Prof. Bruce J. Schulman, discusses some research drawn from his current book project, a monumental volume of the Oxford History of the United States, covering the period 1896-1929. We're jo...
30 Jan 202345min
Dr. Caitlin Harvey, 'Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalization, 1840-1910'
For the first episode of 2023 (re-uploaded due to a technical error!), we're joined by Dr. Caitlin Harvey, an early career research fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Alongside Caitlin, we're j...
24 Jan 202333min
Dr. Erin Trahey, 'Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761'
In this episode, Dr. Erin Trahey, Assistant Professor of Early American History at Cambridge, discusses a chapter from her upcoming book project, Free Women of Jamaica: Property, Race and Power in Jam...
13 Dec 202232min
Prof. Fredrik Logevall, 'JFK: The Road To Power'
In this episode, Professor Fredrik Logevall discusses a chapter from the upcoming second volume of his biography of President John F. Kennedy. Theo Zenou - a PhD candidate at Hughes Hall - joins Hugh ...
1 Dec 202245min
Prof. Angus Burgin, 'From the New Economy to Neoliberalism'
This week, Professor Angus Burgin discusses his paper, "From the New Economy to Neoliberalism" with PhD students Sam Pallis and Hugh Wood.
24 Nov 202251min
Prof. Mario Del Pero, 'In the Shadow of the Vatican'
Professor Mario Del Pero, Professor of International History, Institut d’études politiques at Sciences Po, Paris, speaks about his paper 'In the Shadow of the Vatican' with PhD student Christopher Sch...
19 Feb 202041min
Dr. Emma Teitelman, 'Class and State in America's Greater Reconstruction'
Back to our normal format this week. Emma Teitelman, Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge, talks to Lewis Defrates about her paper ‘Class and State in America’s Gr...
4 Feb 202030min
