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IT HAPPENED!

by Alan Partington and Lisa Wigent

The faculty of the Oakland University Department of History possess a deep knowledge of the broad range of the human record. Each episode in this series presents a brief glimpse into some aspect of this history.Listen with us and let’s find out together..... Where, When, Why and How…..IT HAPPENED

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Episodes

  1. Religion in Colonial America

    INFORMED BY HISTORY: Religion and Government, Part 2 - In this episode, Jeffrey Powell, Special Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Oakland University Department of History will help us understand the relationships between religion and government in Colonial America. We start around the…

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  2. Religion and Government - Reverend Myra Moreland

    INFORMED BY HISTORY: Religion and Government, Part 1 - We are starting off with a contemporary view from reverend Myra Moreland, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Troy, Michigan. Christianity is about inclusion and spirituality and definitely NOT about exclusion or using the cover of...

  3. IT HAPPENED! is Evolving (trailer #2)

    "Informed By History" format is added along with "Glimpses of History" format.

  4. The Emotional Politics of Slavery

    "Glimpses of History"; EPISODE 6 Erin Austin Dwyer, Associate Professor, Oakland University Department of History is our guest on this episode. Professor Dwyer gives us a glimpse of her new book, Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States. The book will be available...

  5. Eugenic Sterilization and Buck v. Bell

    "Glimpses of History"; EPISODE 5 Jeffrey Powell, Oakland University Department of History, provides a glimpse of early 20th century eugenics and social Darwinism surrounding the Supreme Court case of Buck vs. Bell. For more information on the topics of this podcast, try “War Against the Weak:...

  6. There's No Written Record. Now What?

    "Glimpses of History"; EPISODE 4 There's is much more to history and anthropology research than just reading. Many times we would like answers to questions for which written records don't exist. On this episode, we talk with Dr. George Milne, Associate Professor of History, and Associate…

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  7. Poet, Dreamer, Revolutionary

    "Glimpses of History"; EPISODE 3 Sean Farrell Moran is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Oakland University specializing in Modern Britain, Ireland, History of Ideas, 20th-Century Europe. He is the author of "Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter...

  8. Anarchists and Assassins

    "Glimpses of History"; EPISODE 2 Our guest for this episode is Dr. Alexander Noonan. Dr. Noonan is a cultural historian of American foreign relations studying how non-material forces such as memory, perception and emotion shape issues of diplomacy, war etc. In particular, his research examines...

  9. Exile As Opportunity

    Glimpses of History; Episode 1 Oakland University History Professor Andrea Wenz brings us this episode's glimpse of history. Dr. Wenz tells us about Bernardino Ochino, a little known early modern Italian religious reformer. Additional information on the subject can be found in a chapter written…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The faculty of the Oakland University Department of History possess a deep knowledge of the broad range of the human record. Each episode in this series presents a brief glimpse into some aspect of this history.Listen with us and let’s find out together..... Where, When, Why and How…..IT HAPPENED

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Alan Partington and Lisa Wigent

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