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Professor Joanne Freeman continues with the 1790s, the “Reign of Witches” and how the Federalists tried to hold onto power.
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The 1790s was a pivotal time for the new America and Professor Joanne Freeman takes us on a tour.
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Professors Beverly Gage and Joanne Freeman ask Professor David Blight about his recent lectures about early Republicans, The Slave Power conspiracy, and the slave narratives that affected them most.
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Professors David Blight, Beverly Gage, and Joanne Freeman discuss Professor Freeman’s Week 2 lectures on the Federalists (don’t call them papers) and whether anyone would actually like the real Alexander Hamilton.
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Professor Freeman describes the structure and process of the new Constitution.
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Oh, those constipated kids… What can we do when Miralax doesn’t work? When should we get labs and x-rays? Dr. Gershon is here to answer all your questions!
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A conversation with science writer Philip Ball about his new illustrated history of alchemy.
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Professors David Blight, Beverly Gage, and Joanne Freeman discuss Professor Freeman’s Week 3 and 4 lectures on Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and how America’s experiment with democracy was received by outsiders.
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Professor Joanne Freeman explains the role of states in the American Experiment.
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In this episode, Joseph Ho discusses his book, Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China with Chloë Starr. The conversation ranges from camera technology in the interwar years to the documentation of disease in mission hospitals and circulation of missionary films documenting Japanese war crimes. If the creation of new types of images (such as baptism photographs) changes how we see the self and other, the cultural exchange of transnational images also played a role in Sino-US relations.