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.
Author
Cheyenne Pettit, Lediona Shahollari, Matthew Hershey, and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2024
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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.
Author
Cheyenne Pettit, Enrieth Martinez-Palacios, Paige Newhouse, Sophie Wunderlich, and Talitha Pam
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2024
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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.”
Author
Hannah Roussel, James Wolfe, and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2024
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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?
Author
Alexander McConnell and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2024
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
Based on research at the William L. Clements Library, students curated a digital exhibit that provides windows into resistance in early American history.
Author
Akash Fewell, Alyssa DeSarbo, Ansruta Bohra, Ari Roth, Caitlyn Hawley, Cleo S. Randall, Dylan T. Wunder, Edward Lopez, Helena Halucha, Isaac Servin, Lilly P. Vydareny, Mariah Cooperwood, Niyatee Jain, Oak Soe Naing, Tsumari D. Patterson, Vansh Kapoor, Xixiang Luo, Zachary Geyer, and Zoe Waldman
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Exhibit and Website
Support Partners
William L. Clements Library
Category
Tags
Students in History 294 developed this historical walking tour focusing on the history of the 1960s on campus.
Author
Alexis Spector, Anuj Raghavan, Bailin Chen, Cyrus Merriweather, Dominic Catallo, Evan Carter, Gigi DeJong, Grace Wright, Gregory Parker, Ian Merida, Jonathan Slack, Kaitlyn Parker, Kevin Ellis, Luke Compton, Madeline Jeffrey, Marwa Aidibi, Mason Bright, Matthew Falzon, Nicolas Richards, Nora Hendges, Radha Turner, Russell Jacobs, Sara Desmet, Shayna Lopatin, Welly Altaii, and Zoey Weinstein
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Tour and Website
Category
Tags
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?
Author
Helmut Puff and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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.
Author
Elizabeth Collins and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Jason Young
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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.
Author
Alexander Stephens and Broderick Flanigan
Contributor
Anthony A. Hill
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Website
Funding Source
Category
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.
Author
Emily Lamond
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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?
Author
Tara Weinberg
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
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?
Author
Elena Marie Rosario
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
