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A weekly (term-time) podcast featuring brief interviews with the presenters at the Cambridge American History Seminar. We talk about presenters' current research and paper, their broader aca...
“What were the capitalists doing? And what were they doing in this international space?” In this episode of Camericanist , we welcome Dr Eli...
"Long before…American and European historians were interrogating the archives, as African historians, we were doing that. And we were using...
“The wolf is a metaphor for race war, and we mean race war on a genocidal scale.” We release this episode at a historic moment. This Saturda...
“What happened? At one point, we were really close to banning polystyrene. What happened?” In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Elsa Devienne...
This episode explores ‘carbon cowboys,’ the creation of A Blueprint for Conservative Government (1980), and an emerging historical concept:...
“Whether we like it or not, the American Revolution is kind of central to the idea of American civic life, and very central to American noti...
"Of course, it's an institution of social change. Because it has to manage all of the social changes that are taking place in society—becaus...
“What makes one drug or another useful to politicians?” David Farber asks. At the seminar, Farber presented new work on the late twentieth-c...
N.B.: This episode describes sexual violence and graphic bodily harm. (With sincere apologies for the re-upload due to a technical issue.) “...
When we think about the founding documents of the United States, two likely come to mind: the Declaration of Independence and the Constituti...
“In 2024…the number of children and teachers killed in school shootings surpassed not only military, but active police duty deaths. So our e...
‘Why do people look at Black people the way they do?’ This is the central provocation of our guest scholar's work. Dr Brenna Greer is an Afr...
Dr Kaeten Mistry discusses his current research on the history of secrecy and the tensions it raises between civil liberties and national se...
Please note that this episode contains discussion of sexual violence. This week, PhD candidates Sam Lanevi and Megan Renoir sit down with Dr...
“We Don’t Call Them Wars Anymore,” explores the history of international intervention after the Second World War, and how the role of the Un...
Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey ( Nii Laryea Osabu I, Atrékor Wé Oblahii kè Oblayéé Mantsè) — Associate Professor of History and William Daws...
In this episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast, we’re joined by Dr Tara Bynum, Associate Professor of English & African A...
In this special episode, we’re joined by the incoming Paul Mellon Professor, Mia Bay. She is a leading scholar of American and African Ameri...
Axel Schäfer, Professor in American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and of U.S. History at the Obama Institute, joins us...
In this episode, we’re talking with Molly Warsh, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, about her new book project,...