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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.
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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.
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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University of Michigan Presidential Campus Tour
This tour was compiled as part of Fall 2020’s Democracy & Debate theme semester, a unique opportunity to reflect on the presidents who have visited campus, and their impact.
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Politics of Academic Freedom
In this HistoryLab, students examined definitions of academic freedom and freedom of speech over time at the University of Michigan.
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Inside the AHA: Race and the Institutional Histories of the American Historical Association
This HistoryLab centers the practice of client-based institutional research focusing on the history of racism and racial exclusion in shaping the American Historical Association.
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Great Lakes Environmental Justice Lab
Students in this HistoryLab published online case studies investigating dangerously polluted places in Great Lakes watersheds.