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Featured Projects
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Season 6, Episode 2: “When They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:” Reparations in Uganda
In this episode of Reverb Effect, we follow the journey of Ugandan cultural artifacts from removal to repatriation, and what happens when they return home. Tracing historical materials and their layered afterlives as they moved from colonial Africa to the Cambridge Museum and back to the Uganda National Museum, we explore how collecting trajectories stripped objects…
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Season 6, Episode 1: Capturing Change to Build a Future: The Woodbridge Oral History Archive
What happens when a neighborhood tells its own story? In this episode of Reverb Effect, we step into Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood to hear firsthand accounts of resilience, memory, and change – from postwar life and the 1967 uprising to art, activism, and shifting pressures of today.
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Season 5, Episode 6: “Does It Matter?”: Legacies of the First World War
Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War—which are as relevant today as they were a century ago.
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Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives
Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them.
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Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924
One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”
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Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground
Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the second-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?