최고 Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast 팟캐스트 (2024)

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Special Episode: Prof. Gary Gerstle - A Career in Reflection 1:12:39

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Gary Gerstle, the outgoing Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge and author of multiple award winning books including American Crucible, Liberty and Coercion, and, most recently, the Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, joins Fergus and Hugh to discuss his career, major works, the state of the historical profession and the univer…

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Dr. Lila Chambers, "Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1580-1737" 32:44

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Dr. Lila Chambers, research fellow at Gonville and Cauis College, Cambridge, joins Shea Hendry and Hugh Wood to discuss her upcoming book, Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic,1580-1737. Lila's research traces the intertwined development of political economy, diplomacy, and race in West Africa, the Caribbean, the …

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Prof. Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" 39:37

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Prof. Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, joins Fergus Seldson Games and Hugh Wood to talk about his new work, Illiberal America: A History. Offered as a corrective to Louis Hartz's classic, The Liberal Tradition in America, Prof. Hahn discusses westward expansion, eugenics, and a deep seated but not intractable illiberal current that ha…

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Prof. Daniel Widener, "The Dream of a Common Language: Afterlives of U.S. Thirdworldism" 36:28

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Daniel Widener is a Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Black Arts West and the book under discussion today: Third Worlds Within: multiethnic movements and transnational solidarity, available through Duke University Press. Taking their cues from the book’s introduction, titled “The Dream of a Common …

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Prof. Erika Lee, "Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America" 28:18

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Erika Lee, this year’s Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, Bae Family Professor of History, and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, joins Fergus Selsdon Games and Sam Lanevi—both PhD candidates here at Cambridge—to discuss her upcoming work Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America. Topics in…

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Arianne Sedef Urus, "Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries" 38:32

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Arianne Sedef Urus, Assistant Professor of Early American History and Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss cod fisheries, early modern empires, and Indigenous expropriation through the commons.

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Prof. Manfred Berg, "The Right to Bear Arms: Guns, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement" 34:40

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Prof. Manfred Berg, Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg, joins Megan Renoir and Hugh Wood to discuss the 2nd Amendment, mass shootings, the militia movement, and the possibility of another American civil war.

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Erik Mathisen, "The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party" 26:01

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Dr. Erik Mathisen joins Hugh Wood and Rob O'Sullivan to discuss his paper "The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party." Dr. Mathisen places the idea of Free Labor within a global context and attempts to understand how the flaws of Free Labor were glossed over by proponents and later historians.…

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Elizabeth R. Varon, "White Supremacy in American Politics: An Origins Story" 29:16

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This week, Elizabeth Varon, Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, University of Virginia, examines the political discourse of the Reconstruction era, and particularly the origins of the phrase "white supremacy." NB this episode contains reference to ou…

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Dr. Noam Maggor - "Escaping the Periphery: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy" 27:18

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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 of the American 'developmental state'.

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Prof. Jefferson Cowie - "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" 37:44

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We discuss the complex history of ‘freedom’ in American history with 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner Jefferson Cowie (Vanderbilt University).

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Prof. Andrew Preston - A Bridge in Chicago: The New Deal and National Security 35:47

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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.

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Prof. Stephanie Lewthwaite - "Relational Memories: Latinx Art in New York City Since the 1970s" 21:12

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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 American History (Faculty of Arts) at the University of Nottingham

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Dr. Joanna Cohen, "Hall’s Sympathies: Loss, Law, and the Limits of Feeling in Nineteenth Century America" 32:40

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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 capitalism. A lot of our discussion turns on the meaning of 'sympathy' in historical analysis.

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Dr. Lewis Defrates, "Neutrality by Absence: The Selective Repatriation of Americans at the Beginning of the First World War" 23:50

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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 extract its citizens, ordered by social category, from the crisis rapidly unfolding across Europe. The paper promises to reshape our understanding of t…

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Prof. Nick Guyatt, Writing American History in Uncertain Times 50:41

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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 that surround the American past, and the difficult political terrain the contemporary historian must navigate.…

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Prof. Richard J. M. Blackett, "Looking For Samuel Ringgold Ward" 44:39

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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.

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Dr. Grace Mallon, "Federalism for Beginners: Intergovernmental Relations and Interdependent Sovereignty after 1789" 26:34

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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 federalism in the Early Republic period.

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Prof. Andrew Preston, The Iraq War: 20 Years On 26:24

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Prof. Andrew Preston discusses the causes and implications of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq with Fergus and Hugh.

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Prof. Gregory Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War in the Modern Era" 32:59

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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 discuss power, gender, and America's faith in the transformative capacity of conflict.

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Dr. Meg Jacobs, "The New Deal's AAA Reconsidered: State-Building from the Bottom Up" 38:06

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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 the saving of American capitalism. As noted in the introduction, there won't be any new episodes until mid-May. Until then, stay well, and thanks for…

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Prof. Emily West, "Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in the Antebellum South" 37:29

1+ y ago37:29

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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 Feeding in the Antebellum South." Here's a link to Prof. West's article on wet-nursing: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44783893, and here's a link to BR…

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Prof. Sophie White, "His Master's Grace": Extra-Judicial Violence in Atlantic Slave Societies" 34:06

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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." Here are the links to the project and works mentioned in the introduction: the digital humanities project, https://oieahc.wm.edu/digital-projects/oi-re…

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Dr. Robert Lee, "Indigenous Land and Sovereign Wealth in America: The Case of the Connecticut School Fund" 43:06

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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 prizewinning work on Land Grab Universities: https://www.landgrabu.org/. Thanks for tuning in and we hope you enjoy!…

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Dr. Emily Brady, "I Didn't Know She Took Pictures": African American Women Photographers in the Long Civil Rights Movement" 37:01

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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 civil rights movement. Here's a link to an article containing some of the photographs we discuss today: (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/galler…

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Prof. Bruce J. Schulman, "From the 'Smoke Filled Room' to the 'Singing Teapot': Women Voters and the Transformation of American Politics, 1924-1928" 45:19

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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 joined by Eric Wycoff-Rogers, who's just submitted their PhD on gender and sex relations in the first decades of the 20th century.…

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Dr. Caitlin Harvey, "Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalization, 1840-1910" 33:54

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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 joined by Rob O'Sullivan, a PhD candidate at Sidney Sussex and historian of Irish identity in the nineteenth century United States. Be on the lookout f…

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Dr. Erin Trahey, "Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761" - 2/12/22 32:24

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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 Jamaican Slave Society 1760-1834, entitled: "Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761." Take a dive into the racial, gend…

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Prof. Fredrik Logevall, "JFK: The Road To Power" - 28/11/22 45:03

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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 Wood to talk through JFK's character, contemporary resonance, and the debates surrounding the relationship between biography and history.…

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Prof. Angus Burgin: "From the New Economy to Neoliberalism" - 21/11/22 51:53

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This week, Professor Angus Burgin discusses his paper, "From the New Economy to Neoliberalism" with PhD students Sam Pallis and Hugh Wood.

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Mario Del Pero on 'In the Shadow of the Vatican', 17/2/20 41:10

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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 Schaefer.The pair discuss the missionary efforts of a small group of evangelical Christians, members of the 'Church of Christ', who moved from Lubbock, T…

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Emma Teitelman on 'Class and State in America’s Greater Reconstruction', 3/2/20 30:42

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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 Greater Reconstruction’Dr Teitelman’s paper discusses the efforts of groups of north-eastern capitalists in the years following the Civil War to work wi…

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Heather Ann Thompson Pitt Inaugural Lecture 27/1/2020 1:13:31

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This is a special episode of the CAHS podcast, as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions Heather Ann Thompson delivers her inaugural lecture on 'American Prison Uprisings and Why They Matter Today', with introductory comments from Professor Gary Gerstle.Apologies for the quasi-'field recording' style of the audio here. Video of the lec…

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Peter Mancall on ‘The Origins of the American Economy’, 20/1/2020 39:22

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We're back after a long winter break. The dust has been blown off, our legs have been stretched, and the Cambridge American History Seminar is up and running again! This week Peter Mancall, Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the academic year 2019-2020 and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humaniti…

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Robert A. Schneider on 'The Rise and Fall of the “Resentment Paradigm” (ca 1935-1975) 30:15

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Robert A. Schneider, a historian of early modern France at Indiana University Bloomington, and the former long-standing editor of the American Historical Review, talks to Lewis Defrates about his paper 'The Rise and Fall of the “Resentment Paradigm” (ca 1935-1975).The paper discusses the work of postwar intellectuals such as Richard Hofstadter, Dan…

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Katherine Paugh Interview 12/11/19 21:57

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After a week away, we're back with another episode and another exciting and thought-provoking seminar paper! Katherine Paugh, an Associate Professor in North American Women’s History at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, talks to Lewis Defrates about her paper '‘Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World'. The paper explores r…

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Sarah Pearsall Interview 29/10/19 17:43

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We have a special edition of the podcast and seminar this week as we celebrate the release of our esteemed colleague Dr Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s new book, ‘Polygamy: An Early American History’. Dr Pearsall is University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World here at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Robinson C…

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Heather Ann Thompson Interview 21/10/19 27:23

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It's that time of the week! Here's another top-notch interview discussing some new work with one of the most important and highly-acclaimed historians working today.On the podcast today we are joined by Heather Ann Thompson, a Professor History and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan AND this year's Pitt Professor of A…

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Noam Maggor & Stefan Link Interview 14/10/19 33:01

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Back again after a long break, it's the podcast with the catchiest title and the freshest insights into some of the most exciting work in the field of American history. The Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast has returned for the 2019-20 academic year! In our first seminar of the year, Dr Noam Maggor (Queen Mary, University of London) and Pr…

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Brooke Blower Interview 20/5/19 23:35

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Final seminar and final podcast of the year! We might have some more content for you over the summer, but for now, what a way to close out the academic year!Brooke Blower, Associate Professor of History at Boston University and founding co-editor of the journal Modern American History, talks to Lewis Defrates about her paper 'Gibraltars of the Paci…

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Ari Kelman Interview 13/5/19 21:25

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Here's the penultimate seminar interview of the academic year, and our first time in actual recording studio! We hope your ears will thank us.Ari Kelman, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, talks to Lewis Defrates about his paper 'From Manassas to Mankato: How the Civil Wars Bled into the Indian Wars…

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Michell Chresfield Interview 6/5/19 18:02

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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 Lewis Defrates about her paper 'It's in the Blood: Physical Anthropology, Genetics, and the Making of America's Triracial Isolates' and broader research o…

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Beverly Gage Interview 29/4/19 16:25

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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 University, talks to a recently-returned-from-a-research-trip Lewis Defrates about her paper and upcoming biography 'G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American…

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David Blight Interview 11/3/19 52:58

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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 Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University, speaks to Cambridge PhD student Yasmin Dualeh about his new book ‘Frederick Douglas: Prophet of F…

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Susan Carruthers Interview 4/3/2019 20:41

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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 historian. At the centre of discussion is Professor Carruthers' fascinating paper "Inventing the 'Dear John': Romance, Rupture, and Recuperation in W…

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Kate Masur Interview 25/2/2019 25:13

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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 Sovereignty and Migration Before Reconstruction" and its place within her wider work.Professor Masur discusses the relationship between poor laws and both A…

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Andrew Hartman Interview 18/2/2019 27:14

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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 History, talks to PhD student Richard Saich about his paper and broader work.Dr Hartman's paper, titled 'Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism',…

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Karine Walther Interview 11/2/2019 17:07

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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 (congratulations!)Cambridge PhD student Tom Smith about her paper 'Spreading the Faith: American Missionaries, ARAMCO and the Birth of the US-Saudi Special Relati…

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Barbara Savage Interview 4/2/2019 30:12

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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 Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the 2018-19 Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, Univer…

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Naomi Lamoreaux Interview 22/01/2019 21:39

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Guess who's back!It's the first Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast of 2019, and a great one to start the year with! Naomi Lamoreaux, the visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge, and the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, talks to Lewis Defrates about he…

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