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 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 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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