It's true, it's true – our episode on Jackie is here! DPhil student and resident RAI First Lady expert Liz Rees joins to discuss Pablo Larrain's Jackie, the 2016 microbiopic that follows (former) First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the days after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy. We dive into first ladies in the popular psyche, the women of the East Wing who help transformed the role of the First Lady, and the relationship between legacy and the Kennedy Administration. Liz also makes the excellent case for why we should all care a lot more about Lady Bird Johnson. 

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It had to happen eventually – this week we take our first foray into the world of Civil War film with 1989's Glory, Ed Zwick's epic about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African American regiments to serve in the conflict. Joining us is Professor Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. We talk reenactments, James Horner's score, the long trend of Civil War on film, and the film's continuing legacy, and much much more. Jay also brings some great insight into how Matthew Broderick's casting continues to resonate to the present day. All of that and more in this episode!

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I drink your…podcast? This week we venture back to the American West as DPhil student and expert in the American missionary movement Gwion Wyn Jones joins to talk Paul Thomas Anderson’s sweeping 2007 epic about two men struggling to make their mark through oil or god at the turn of the century. Talk ranges from score composer Johnny Greenwood, the ties between religion and capital, evangelicalism in the American West, and of course, milkshakes.

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Welcome to Flashback: American Historians on Movies! We’re kicking things off with perhaps the biggest piece of history on film (and stage!) of our times – 2020’s filmed version of the 2015 stage musical Hamilton. Grace Mallon of the Conventions podcast joins and offers her excellent insights. Were early cabinet debates just like rap battles? Does Hamilton actually obscure the diversity of early America? Is it aware that the city of Philadelphia exists? We discuss all this and more in this first episode. 

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