Category: Reverb Effect

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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Season 3, Episode 4: The Two Monsieurs

In 1836, Monsieurs Pierret and Lami-Housset transformed fashion when they opened the first shirt store in Paris. Their radical feat? They tailored a shirt.

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Season 3, Episode 3: The Real Housewives of Medieval London

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Housekeeping is not timeless, but subject to economic changes, and demographics, and ideological beliefs. Why is housekeeping associated with women? And how do global disasters influence housekeeping and amplify patriarchy?

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