Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Karl Hagstrom Miller, Associate Professor, Department of History Anyone who’s been to the music store lately (or shopped for digital downloads) is probably familiar with the concept of music categorized … Continue reading →

Guest Daina Ramey Berry she discusses teaching the "senses of slavery," a teaching tool that taps into the senses in order to connect to one of the most important eras in US history and bring it to the present.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past and Professor, Department of History Guest: Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor, Department of History Slavery marks an important era in the history of the United States, one that is often discussed in terms of numbers and … Continue reading →

Guest Jacqueline Jones, one of the foremost experts on the history of racial history in the United States, helps us understand race and race relations by exposing some of its astonishing paradoxes from the earliest day to Obama's America.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Jacqueline Jones, Professor, Department of History There is no question that the idea of race has been a powerful driving force in American history since colonial times, but what exactly is race? … Continue reading →

Guest Seth Garfield shows how a little-known chapter of World War II history illuminates the ways outsiders’ understandings of the nature of the Amazon have evolved over the course of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Seth Garfield, Director, Institute for Historical Studies During World War II, the governments of Brazil and the United States made an unprecedented level of joint investment in the economy and infrastructure of … Continue reading →

Guest Robert Olwell describes the Royal Proclamation of 1763, its effects on the history of colonial North America, and ponders whether it is really the smoking gun that caused the American Revolution as some have claimed.

Host: Henry Wiencek, Assistant Editor, Not Even Past Guest: Robert Olwell, Associate Professor, Department of History Between 1754 and 1763, Great Britain, France, and a collection of French-allied Native American tribes fought a brutal war over trading rights in colonial … Continue reading →

Guest Chris Dietrich explains the origins of the oil crisis and the ways it shifted international relations in its wake.