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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 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……
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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 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……
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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 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……
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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?
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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……
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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……
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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……
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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.
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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.