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Season 1, Episode 2: 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. Audio (Edison Phonograph): I am the Edison Phonograph. Created by the great wizard of the new world, to delight those… Continue reading Season 1, Episode 2: Transcript
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Season 1, Episode 1: 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. Imagine you’re sitting on the subway. You look up and you see someone staring at you. Is there…
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Season 1, Episode 3: Evidence of Absence: Lilli Segal, the KGB, and the AIDS Crisis
Dive into the lifecycle of a “fake news” story from the 1980s and learn how a lie about one of the twentieth century’s most critical health epidemics—HIV/AIDS—was used to push particular narratives for political gain during the Cold War.
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Season 2, Episode 3: Envisioning Eternity: Women and Purgatory in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish World
During the seventeenth century, Spaniards attempted to map and situate not just the Americas, but also otherworldly spaces like Purgatory. How did women participate in this knowledge production?
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Season 2, Episode 2: The Unnatural Vice: King Henri III, Sodomy, and Modern Masculinity
The content of sodomy accusations has changed a lot over the past millennium. How does sexuality help forge conceptions of masculinity, both in sixteenth-century Europe and today?
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Season 3, Episode 1: Transcript
Allie Goodman: In 1942, six months after President Roosevelt declared war on the Axis powers and officially entered the United States into the Second World War, the federal government created the Office of War Information. The goal: create continued public support for the war effort by documenting it through media, including photography, film, and radio.…
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Season 3, Episode 1: Music Time in Africa
Duty called in 1941, and duty called again in 1964. But what happened when music came to be a weapon in the information wars of the Cold War?
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Season 2, Episode 1: Revival and Reckoning: A Colonial Museum in Postcolonial Italy
Colonial museums are tangible representations of the unequal relationships between people, communities, and nations. What can a museum tell us about Italy and its former African colonies?
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Season 1, Episode 2: Recording the Family: In Search of the Sonic Archive
Historians often search for the “voices” of the past, crafting stories past actors might have told from the records they leave behind. But what are the chances they will hear the literal voice of a historical actor they study?
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Season 1, Episode 1: Street Harassment, Then and Now
In what ways can a look be unsettling? Intimidating? Might it be dangerous? How does one study the history of an act so fleeting, and so difficult to record? We’ll uncover the history of the more insidious behaviors men often perform in public space.
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Resistance and Revolution: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the University of Michigan, 1965-1972
“Resistance and Revolution” publicizes research conducted by undergraduate students about the history of the anti-Vietnam war movement at U-M.
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Divestment for Humanity: The Anti-Apartheid Movement at the University of Michigan
“Divestment for Humanity” explores more than a decade of anti-apartheid activism at the University of Michigan.
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Ending the Business of Injustice: Anti-Sweatshop Activism at the University of Michigan, 1999-2007
“Ending the Business of Injustice” focuses on the history of anti-sweatshop activism at the University of Michigan.