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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 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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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

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 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 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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Paths of Protest: Histories of Student Activism on Campus

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History 294 students developed this historical walking tour to center students and community members as the agents of change on campus.

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