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Dig: A History Podcast — 240 episodes
Accident of Birth: Wong Kim Ark, Birthright Citizenship, and the Case That Won't Stay Settled Part 1
Betita Martinez and the Road to Chicana Feminism
Segregation's Constant Gardeners: How White Women Created and Defended Jim Crow Segregation
The Women and the King: Scottish Witch Hunts Under James VI
Lesbian Volunteerism in the AIDS Epidemic: A Story We Almost Lost
The Rise of the American Right During the Cold War: Anti-Communism, Suburban Women, and a Grassroots Revolution
Project MK Ultra: The CIA's Harmful, Pointless Quest for Mind Control
EThe KGB’s Queer Honeypots and the Cold War
American Idealist in Stalin's City of Steel: A Pre-History of the Cold War
Love Canal, or How Toxic Capitalism Poisoned a Neighborhood and How "Housewives" Fought Back
Rachel Carson and a Spring Without Nature: Science, Love, and Politics
Gwich’in, Food Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice in the Arctic Coastal Plain
Bonus: Conversation with Amplified Podcast
Save it for the Rag-and-Bone Man: The Premodern History of Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Bonus Episode: Best of 2025, What's Coming in 2026!
EOrange Slices, Simmer Pots, and Naked Dancing: A Brief and Incomplete History of Modern Witchcraft
Re-Release: A Ghost Story for Christmas!
Martian Visitors in the Gilded Age
Beasts and Believers: A History of Werewolf Trials in Early Modern Europe
You're Bound to Die: The Long History of the American Murder Ballad
Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition
Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century
Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society
Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American Enslavement
Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial India
The Pansy Craze
Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern Lesbian
Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender
Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race
Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events
The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans
Sexuality and Psychiatry
Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare
EThe Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles's Season of Violence During WWII
The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38
From Respectability to Ruin to Ripper Victim: The Whitechapel Murders and the Precarity of Poverty in Victorian London
Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement
Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality Re-Release
Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic Re-Release
Spiritualism's Beginning: Kate and Maggie Fox
Kitsune and Kitsunetsuki: A History of Japanese Fox-Witches and Fox Possession
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Spectral Evidence, Floating Witches, and Angry Neighbors: The Other Witch Panic of 1692
Love and Magic: A History of Violence
History of Thin: The Changing Meaning of Thinness in the Modern World
The Battle for Deaf Education: Clashing Methods, Minds, and Cultures in the Nineteenth Century United States
One-Sex, Two-Sex, or …?: Thinking About the Sexed Body in History
Bonus Episode: The Nineteenth-Century Feminist and Writer that You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
La Mutine: Gender and France's Forced Migration Schemes
Red Power Progressivism: A Biography of American Indian Rights Activist Zitkala Ša
“Came home in our droves for you”: Abortion in Ireland
The Sentimental State: Book Talk
The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine
Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II
From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America
The Invisible Engine: Capitalism's Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
Islam and the Frankish “Wall of Ice”: Contingency and the Battle of Tours, or Poitiers, or Whatever…
How the Homophile Movement Could Have Been Intersectional and Antiracist, But Wasn’t: Magnus Hirschfeld and Li Shui Tong’s Love and Loss Story
Rise and Fall in the Queen City: Contingent Moments in Buffalo, New York
Crappy Healthcare is Not Natural: the U.S. Health System is Contingent on a Lot of Bad Decisions
Chinese Medicine: The Complex Balance of Individual, State, and Cosmos
Puerto Rican Citizenship: A Complex Status
Vaudevillian, Countess, Spy, Activist: The Complicated Life of Josephine Baker
The History of Fat: The Complex Attitudes Toward Fatness in the Pre-Modern West
From Orality to Literacy: A Global History of Writing
Feminisms: The Interconnected Rights Revolution
The History of America's Changing Political Parties
Irish Hero, Queer Traitor, Gay Icon: Roger Casement Over Time
The Equal Rights Amendment: Gender Equality? Nah...
Irrepressible Conflict, or Failure to Compromise? The Causes of the American Civil War
The Fall of Rome: Debating Causality and the Collapse of the Western Empire
For King, Country, and… Opium?: Thinking About Causality, Empire, and Historiography in the First Opium War, 1839-42
For F*ck’s Sake: A History of English-Language Swearing
EThe Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger
Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Women’s War of 1929: Igbo and Ibibio Resistance to British Colonialism
Race and Nation in Latin America: Whitening, Browning, and the Failures of Mestizaje
Nina Otero-Warren: Suffrage and Strategy in New Mexico
Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th- and 19th- Century America
A Spot of Tea: Empire, Commodities, and the Opportunities in Britain’s Tea Trade
Omm Sety and Bridey Murphy: A History of Reincarnation and Past Lives in Britain and America
Anna Howard Shaw: Doctor, Reverend, Suffragist Leader
The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening
Spectacle and Spiritualism in the Lives of Maggie and Kate Fox
Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement
Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality
Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic
Cheesecloth, Spiritualism, and State Secrets: Helen Duncan’s Famous Witchcraft Trial
Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan
One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Canary in a Coal Mine - Literally
Remember Rutterkin? Witch’s Familiars, Religious Reformation, and Sexy Beasts in Early Modern Europe
War Elephants from Ancient India to World War II
Race in 1920s America: Hellfighters, Red Summer, and Restrictive Immigration
Apartheid in South Africa: A History
The Long History of Abolition in America
The Windrush Generation and the Mystique of British Anti-Racism
Rosa Parks: Myth & Memory in the American Civil Rights Movement
Tituba, The "Black Witch" of Salem
“La lengua”: Malintzin, the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica, and the Legacy of the Translator in Mexico
Dragon Lady of the South China Sea: Cheng I Sao, Woman Commander of China's Pirate Confederacy
Aunt Jemima: American Racism on Your Grocery Shelf
Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen and the Laveau Legend
Werewolves, Vampires, and the Aryans of Ancient Atlantis: The Occultic Roots of the Nazi Party
Mizuko: The History behind Vengeful Aborted Fetus Hauntings in 1980s Japan
The Demonologist and the Clairvoyant: Ed and Lorraine Warren, Paranormal Investigation, and Exorcism in the Modern World
None of Woman Born: Cesarean Birth before 1900, A Pre-History
A History of Childbirth in America
Birth of a Nation: Everyday Racism in 20th-Century America
Obstetric Violence: Childbirth and Symphysiotomy in Catholic Ireland
EFrance's League of Nations Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
LULAC, Adela Sloss-Vento, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Gender, Psychiatry, and Borderline Personality Disorder
Lost! Cabeza de Vaca Stumbles Through Southwestern North America in the "Age of Exploration"
Early American Family Limitation
Bodies of Evidence: Modern Policing, Sex, and the Intricacies of Authorized Crime and Deception
The OG Vaccine: Smallpox, Cowpox, and the Procedure that Changed the World
A History of Racial Passing in the United States
American Exceptionalism at Its Most Disturbing: The "1776 Report"
Yes! Same-Sex Marriage and History-Making in Ireland
1968: A Tumultuous American Year
Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876
The Papal Election of 1492: Rodrigo Borgia and the Conclave that Made him Pope Alexander VI
Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
"More like a dust heap than a nose": The Global History of Smokeless Tobacco
“The Americans Can Fix Nothing without a Drink”: Alcohol in Early America
The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine
W.I.T.C.H.: Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
“Wicked Practises and Sorcerye”: Cunning Folk, Witch Trials, and the Tragedy of Joan Flower and Her Daughters
EBoth Man and Witch: Uncovering the Invisible History of Male Witches
Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch
Slavery & Soul Food: African Crops and Enslaved Cooks in the History of Southern Cuisine
The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast Program: Feeding a Movement
A History of Medicinal Cannibalism: Therapeutic Consumption of Human Bodies, Blood, and Excrement in “Civilized” Societies
Hot for Chocolate: Aphrodisiacs, Imperialism, and Cacao in the Early Modern Atlantic
ESex & Soldiers: Combating Sexually Transmitted Infection in the US Military
Steaming the “Nefarious Sin”: Bathhouses and Homosexuality from the Victorian Era to the AIDS Epidemic
ERecogimiento: Virginity, Enclosure, and Female Virtue in Colonial Latin America
Honeymoon in Niagara Falls: Heterosexuality and Place
EThree Years DIGGING! Live Recording
E79 and Counting: Women of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Blood on the Ravenstone: Judicial Torture, Penal Violence, and Capital Punishment in Early Modern Europe
Honor, Manhood, Slavery: Political Violence from Alexander Hamilton to John Brown
Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the Borderlands: A Lynching in Rocksprings, Texas
Slave, Contraband, Refugee: The Complicated Story of the End of Slavery in the United States
Bittersweet: Sugar, Slavery, Empire and Consumerism in the Atlantic World
Frankenstein's Monster: Science, Revolution and Romanticism in the Age of the Enlightenment
100 Years of Woman Suffrage
La Petite Mort: Investigating the History of Orgasm, aka The Little Death
EAmy Robsart, Lady Dudley: The Death that Launched a Thousand Rumors
The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World
Cult of the Dead: Anglo American Death Practices, Spiritualism, and Speaking with the Dead
For Heart and Hearth… and the Rights of Women: Radical Christianity in Pursuit of Conservative Ends in the Nineteenth Century
Dancing Toward Wounded Knee: The Hope and Tragedy of the Ghost Dance Religion
Duggie Mack, the Jamaican Delegation to Ethiopia, and the Rastafarian Movement
Wound Worship, “Enthusiasts" and "Sodomites”: A History of Radical Moravians
What’s In a Name? : North American Naming Conventions and the “Death” of Patrilineal Lines
Masculinity, Magic & the Meaning of Impotence in Patriarchal Societies of the Past
Papa Can You Hear Me? Fatherhood in 19th century US and Britain
Patriarchs, Brawlers, and Gentlemen: Manhood in the Civil War Era
Secret Societies of Sapphos: Faro Ladies, Bluestockings, and Gendered Insults of Women’s Societies in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain
Fragile Masculinity, Playing Indian, and Mechanical Goats: Fraternal Orders in the 19th Century US
Who Else but the Illuminati? Conspiracy Theories, French Revolutions, and Historian Heroes
Order of Assassins: Myth & Memory of the Nizari in Medieval Iran and Syria
Life Unworthy of Life: The Nazi Programs to Kill People with Disabilities
Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
At the Crossroads of Modernity: Japan, the Blood-Type Fad, and Eugenic Science in the 20th Century
Eugenics in the Making: Human Typologies, Population Hygiene, and Racial Science in the 18th Century
Seduction, Prostitution, Bastardy, and Child Abandonment in Georgian London
Anthony Comstock: Sex, Censorship, and the Power of Policing the Subjective
Rape and Race in Early America
Locked Up and Poxxed: THE Venereal Disease and Women who Sold Sex in the Victorian British Empire
Miscarriage in Nineteenth Century America
Skull Collectors: Race, Pseudoscience, and Native American Bodies
Syphilis: Origin Story. Or, Early Modern Europeans Don’t Know Where It Came From, Current Scholars Don’t Know Where It Came From, and a Lot of Poxy Penises and Vulvas Suffered in Between
“Walking Corpses”: Life as a Leper in Medieval Eurasia
Hearts of Darkness: Victorian Imperialism and Travel of the African Continent
Black Cowboys: People of Color in the American West
The Final Frontier: History, Science, and Space Exploration
Fur Trading and Frontier Life in French Canada
Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Haunted Slavery: The Lalaurie Mansion
Witches Brew: How the Patriarchy Ruins Everything for Women, Even Beer
Forensic Pathology and the History of Death Investigation
Rebel Slaves and Resistance in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Slavery and Freedom in New York City
Slave Codes, Black Codes & Jim Crow: Codifying the Color Line
Devşirme: The Tribute of Children, Slavery and the Ottoman Empire
The Age of Crime! Civil War Veterans and Crime in America
The United States Children's Bureau: An Attempt to Curb Infant Mortality
Queer Politics: The Dublin Castle Scandal of 1884
EEmployment Agencies in 18c London... and Boobs
Underwear: A History of Intimate Apparel
Struggle for the Breeches: Pants, Women, and Power
Suit Up: Class, Economics, Manhood, and Menswear
The Labor of Fashion: Shirtwaists and the Labor Movement in the Early 20th Century
Tuberculean Chic: How White Plague Shaped Beauty Standards in the 18c & 19c
Trees that Fight Back: Shinto & the Environment in Japan
Mt. Tambora & The Year Without a Summer
National Parks in America: Health, Manhood, and Wilderness
The Rise of Natural History Museums
“No peace, No p*ssy”: Sex Strikes and the Recent History of Global Feminist Protest
EVictoria Woodhull: Free Love, Feminism & Finance
Marriage in America: A Brief History
King Ahebi Ugbabe: Sex, Gender, and Power in Colonial Nigeria
Auburn System: Prisons & Punishment in 19c U.S.
Nuremberg Laws and Nazi Discrimination against Jewish Germans
Coverture: Married Women and Legal Personhood in Britain
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Jane Roe and The Pill
Suitcase Murder: Abortion, Mystery and Murder in 20th Century America
Celia, A Slave: The True Crime Case that Rocked the American Slave Power
Child Abuse, Murder & Execution in Georgian London: Case of Elizabeth Brownrigg
Brutal Murder of Bridget Cleary in 1895 Ireland
Abortion and Birth Control before Roe v. Wade
Early American Family Limitation
Charles Dickens and Scary Winter Stories
Great White Hurricane of 1913
Heating and Illuminating Homes in Victorian Britain
Little Ice Age: Weird Weather, Witchcraft, Famine & Fashion
Death, Religion, and Euro-Native Encounters
Cock Lane Ghost: 18c London’s Haunting Hoax
Halloween, Samhain, and Moral Panics in the 1980s
Photos of the Dead: Victorian Postmortem Photography and the Case of the Standing Corpse
The Lost Cause: Texas Independence, Slavery and Historical Memory
Guerrilla Warfare: The American Civil War and Irregular Soldiers
Death, Mud & Guns II: Military Rev and Birth of Bureaucracy
Death, Mud & Guns I: Military Rev and Birth of Bureaucracy
George McGovern and the Elusive Christian Left
Puritan Sex: The Surprising History of Puritans and Sexual Practices
Selling Sex in 19th C. NYC
Marie Stopes’ Sex Guide for Marital Bliss
Sadism, Sex & the French Rev
Vietnam Protest and the Buffalo 9
Communism and Uteruses
Founding of AIDS Project of the Ozarks
Black Athena and the Battle of Historians
War of 1812 and the Burning of Buffalo