Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast

Prof. David Farber, 'The War on Drugs'

Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Union and Disunion: The Turbulent History of the United States' Founding Treaty'

Dr. Kathleen Belew, ‘Thoughts and Prayers: America in the Age of Mass Violence’

Dr. Brenna Greer, 'African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honour'

Dr. Kaeten Mistry, 'Exposure: How State Secret Disclosures Helped Construct and Undermine the Cold War Consensus'

Dr. Kaisha Esty, '“Live as Becomes a Free Christian Woman”: Freedwomen and State-Sanctioned Reform in the Era of Emancipation'

Dr. Lydia Walker, 'We Don’t Call Them Wars Anymore: International Intervention and the United Nations'

Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, 'Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America'

Dr. Tara Bynum, ‘Obour Tanner Makes an Archive: Or, How to Remember Your Famous (and Deceased) 18th-Century Friend, Phillis Wheatley’

Special Episode - Prof. Mia Bay - Her career and vision as the new Paul Mellon Professor

Prof. Axel Schäfer, 'The “Tempest Tost” and the “People of Plenty”: Migration and the Politics of Consumption in the U.S. Since the 1880s'

Prof. Molly Warsh, 'Servants of the Seasons: Temporary Mobilities in the Global Early Americas'

Prof. Kimberly Welch, 'Eulalie Mandeville’s Money: A Free Black Woman and Her Legacy in Antebellum New Orleans'

Prof. Elizabeth N. Ellis, ‘The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South’

Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, 'From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S'

Dr. Shane Hamilton, 'The Persistence of Glyphosate: Monsanto’s Strategic Maintenance of Roundup, the World’s Most Enduring Herbicide Technology'

Dr. Tom Smith, 'Word Across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories'

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

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

Prof. Steven Hahn, 'Illiberal America: A History'

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

Prof. Erika Lee, 'Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America'

Prof. Arianne Sedef Urus, 'Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries'

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

Dr. Erik Mathisen, 'The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party'

Prof. Elizabeth R. Varon, 'White Supremacy in American Politics: An Origins Story'

Dr. Noam Maggor, 'Escaping the Periphery: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy'

Prof. Jefferson Cowie, 'Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power'

Prof. Andrew Preston, 'A Bridge in Chicago: The New Deal and National Security'

Prof. Stephanie Lewthwaite, 'Relational Memories: Latinx Art in New York City Since the 1970s'

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

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

Prof. Nick Guyatt, 'Writing American History in Uncertain Times'

Prof. Richard J. M. Blackett, 'Looking For Samuel Ringgold Ward'

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

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

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

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

Prof. Emily West, 'Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in the Antebellum South'

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

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

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

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

Dr. Caitlin Harvey, 'Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalization, 1840-1910'

Dr. Erin Trahey, 'Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761'

Prof. Fredrik Logevall, 'JFK: The Road To Power'

Prof. Angus Burgin, 'From the New Economy to Neoliberalism'

Prof. Mario Del Pero, 'In the Shadow of the Vatican'

Dr. Emma Teitelman, 'Class and State in America's Greater Reconstruction'

Prof. Heather Ann Thompson, 'American Prison Uprisings and Why They Matter Today' (Pitt Inaugural Lecture)