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  • Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground

    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?

  • Season 5, Episode 3: 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……

  • Resistance in Early American History

    Resistance in Early American History

    Based on research at the William L. Clements Library, students curated a digital exhibit that provides windows into resistance in early American history.

  • Far Out! Ann Arbor in the 60s from JFK to Earth Day

    Far Out! Ann Arbor in the 60s from JFK to Earth Day

    Students in History 294 developed this historical walking tour focusing on the history of the 1960s on campus.

  • Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    Join Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777 as he waits, in an aristocrat’s antechamber in Munich, for a conversation that could change his life. What did it mean to wait in the past? Who waited? How did it shape society and culture?

  • Season 5, Episode 2: 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 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 movement? 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 1: Curating the Remnants of Enslavement: A Conversation with Jason Young

    Season 5, Episode 1: Curating the Remnants of Enslavement: A Conversation with Jason Young

    In this episode, Paige Newhouse interviews Jason Young, co-curator of Hear Me Now: the Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a traveling exhibit housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art centering enslaved artisans and the stoneware they produced.

  • Hot Corner

    Hot Corner

    The 6-part audio documentary, Hot Corner, is a story of what one block in Georgia shows about the dividing lines in our lives, and what Black communities have built in the spaces between.

  • Season 4, Episode 3: Clesippus and the Candelabrum: Imagining Disability in Ancient Rome

    Season 4, Episode 3: Clesippus and the Candelabrum: Imagining Disability in Ancient Rome

    The funerary inscription of Clesippus tells an impressive story of illustrious honors and administrative achievements in Ancient Rome. But there is another story, one of a man who navigated slavery, disability, and the sexual advances of the woman who owned him.

  • Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa

    Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa

    In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. How does the history of the Native Farmers Association offer a glimpse into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa?

  • Season 4, Episode 3: 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 movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……

  • Season 4, Episode 2: 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 movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……

  • Season 4, 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 movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……

  • Season 4, Episode 1: Laboring for the Puerto Rican Vote

    Season 4, Episode 1: Laboring for the Puerto Rican Vote

    What happens when ten Puerto Rican men try to register to vote in 1950s Connecticut? Despite a lengthy public debate that ends up at the state supreme court, we don’t even know all ten of their names. How much of their story can we uncover?