All Projects – History Showcase

Season 6, Episode 4: Conservatism on College Campuses: A Conversation with Lauren Lassabe-Shepherd and Sophie Wunderlich

In this episode of Reverb Effect, Lauren Lassabe-Shepherd and Sophie Wunderlich look at the long history of conservative student activism on American college campuses. The popular image of the 1960s student is a protester against the Vietnam War or for civil rights. That same decade also saw the rise of right-wing student groups like Young…
Season 6, Episode 4: Transcript

Joseph W. Ho [narration]: On May 4, 1970 Three-hundred students gathered on the Kent State Campus in Ohio to protest Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam war into Cambodia. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the draft, the war, and the presence of armed National Guardsmen on campus ended in the deaths of four student…
Season 6, Episode 3: Making KIN

In this episode of Reverb Effect, we visit KIN: Us and Our Kinds, an exhibit of paintings, comics, and sculpture by historian and artist Rafael Neis, and ask what happens when creative practice becomes a way of doing history. Drawing on ancient rabbinic stories, KIN explored how kinship, species, and bodies were once imagined as…
Season 6, Episode 3: Transcript

Cheyenne Pettit: Historians often turn to the written word to share their historical work. And why not? A well-researched monograph can be a powerful tool for understanding the present world. But articles and monographs are not the only ways to interrogate historical questions, and they may not even be the most productive medium for every…
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…
Season 6, Episode 2: Transcript

Nelson Abiti: the removal of those important cultural belongings – I don’t see them as objects – they got objectified when they reached museums. Derek Peterson: They’re answering the demands of our time for racial and social justice in a way that other world museums simply aren’t. Jacob Katumusiime: However, I think this object still…
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.
Season 6, Episode 1: Transcript

<Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices> Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living…
Pure Michigan: The History of Hate in the Great Lakes Region

This exhibit explores several leading individuals, publications, movements, and organizations that contributed to the spread of hateful ethnic, religious, or racial ideology in the Midwest and beyond in the twentieth century.
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.
Season 5, Episode 6: Transcript

<Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices> Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living…
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.
Season 5, Episode 5: Transcript

[Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices] Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living…
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.”
Season 5, Episode 4: Transcript

[Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices] Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living…