Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast

In the sixth episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast, Sarah Knott of Indiana University and the Rothermere Institute, University of Oxford, speaks to Lewis Defrates about her paper 'Mother is a Verb: British and North American Histories Since the Seventeenth Century'.We discuss her use of personal and historical anecdote, the challenges of writing a longue durée history of mother...

We're keeping them coming! Here's the fifth episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast. Lewis Defrates talks to Corey Robin of Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and author of 'The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump'.We talk about Corey's provocative paper 'The Invisible Man: The Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas' and its place within his...

Fourth episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar podcast incoming! Lewis Defrates talks to Katherine Carté of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. We talk about the paper Kate gave at CAHS, entitled 'Religion Transformed', and the paper's broader place in her ongoing project on transnational 'Imperial Protestant' networks both before and after the American Revolution. We also ta...

Here's the third episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar podcast! Lewis Defrates talks to Cambridge legend Tony Badger, who is a Professor of American History at Northumbria University and the emeritus Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge AND the emeritus master of Clare College, Cambridge. We talk about his paper "Writing the Biography of Albert Gore Sr: Confessions of...

In the second episode of the Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast, Lewis Defrates speaks to Dr Jennifer Luff, associate professor in Modern American History at Durham University. We talk about the paper Dr Luff gave to CAHS, "Secrets, Lies, and the 'Special Relationship' in the Early Cold War'", which touched on a particular episode in early-mid twentieth century surveillance and its potenti...

The is first of what we hope will become a series of weekly podcasts with presenters at the Cambridge American History Seminar. Dr Alex Goodall, senior lecturer in International History at University College London, sits down with Lewis Defrates to talk about his paper "Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: Modernization, Sensation and Hybridity in the American Tropical Port System During the First Age of G...