Category: Reverb Effect

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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Season 2, Episode 5: A Prison by Any Other Name: Imagining Childhood Criminality in 1920s Chicago

How can childhood histories help us understand the dynamic between children, authority figures, and the spaces they inhabited in 1920s Chicago? How can we best hear their voices?

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