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Season 2, Episode 4: Transcript
Hayley Bowman: If you were following the news or on social media in November of 2018, you probably saw the photo. Taken outside of the Tijuana border checkpoint, it depicts a grizzly scene. Walls of metal and barbed wire stretch across the background, glimmering in the sun. Crowds flee in the distance, attempting to outrun white…
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Season 1, Episode 7: Archie Bunker for President!
Many liken Donald Trump to sitcom character Archie Bunker, a comparison based on personal characteristics and a shared hometown: Queens, New York.
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Season 1, Episode 7: Transcript
Daniela Sheinin: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? And how do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say? And whose job is it to find out? This is Reverb Effect. Daniela Sheinin: A few years ago I found a drinking glass in an antique mall in Maumee, Ohio. It had…
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Season 1, Episode 6: Policing Gold: Law Enforcement in the Shadow of the LA Olympics
As athletes, spectators and press from around the world arrived in the city, they would be watched.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Transcript
Daniela Sheinin: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? And how do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say? And whose job is it to find out? This is Reverb Effect. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed. The announcement came just days prior to this recording from the international…
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Season 1, Episode 5: Capacity Matters: Immigrant Prisons in the United States
Migrant detention at the US border is not new. When did asylum seekers become criminals?
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Season 1, Episode 5: Transcript
Daniela Sheinin: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? And how do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say and whose job is it to find out? This is Reverb Effect. Archival Audio (PBS NewsHour): …leaving the White House today for a rally in El Paso, Texas, President Trump weighed in…
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Season 1, Episode 4: Archive Magic: Assembling History, One Clue at a Time
The clue was a note, tucked away in a digitized letter, referencing a 1969 illustration of an indigenous woman in protest …
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Season 1, Episode 4: Transcript
Daniela Sheinin: How do past voices resonate in the present moment? And how do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say and whose job is it to find out? This is Reverb Effect. Daniela Sheinin: One of the challenges for historians, is figuring out how to start a story. Usually it starts when…
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Season 3, Episode 2: Navigating Pregnancy: A Century of Prenatal Care
In 1930 the Children’s Bureau detailed a schedule of prenatal visits during pregnancy. And there the schedule sat while the world changed for nearly 100 years.
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Season 3, Episode 2: Transcript
[Reverb Effect Introduction] Alex Peahl: Good morning Ms. Jones. Thanks so much for coming in today. I’m Dr. Peahl. How are you doing? Mrs. Jones: I’m fine. Pretty tired though. I’m getting so big and my two-year-old daughter won’t give me a break. She’s always running around. Alex Peahl: They will do that! But I’m glad to hear you’re…
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Policing and Social Justice Lab
This lab addresses contemporary debates over mass incarceration and police misconduct, ultimately creating a comprehensive database of thousands of police-civilian encounters and homicides in the city of Detroit and beyond.
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Immigrant Justice Lab
A collaborative public humanities project that produces a wide range of scholarly artifacts for and with community partners working in immigrant advocacy in Michigan.
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Repositioning the Uganda Museum
This Mellon Foundation-backed project will repatriate objects from the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to the Uganda Museum in Kampala.
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Season 2, Episode 3: Full Interview with Professor Nancy E. van Deusen
Nancy E. van Deusen is professor of history at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima and The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús. Hayley Bowman: Why and how, by your estimation, did…