Slavery and Its Legacies – Samantha Seeley on Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic

Slavery and Its Legacies – Samantha Seeley on Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic

Samantha Seeley joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book-in-progress, “Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic.”

Slavery and Its Legacies: Manuel Barcia on piracy, the slave trade, and the trial of the Panda

Slavery and Its Legacies: Manuel Barcia on piracy, the slave trade, and the trial of the Panda

Professor Manuel Barcia joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss an episode covered in his current book project: The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial: Or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined the Fate of the Amistad Africans.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Tammy Ingram on the Wickedest City in America

Slavery and Its Legacies – Tammy Ingram on the Wickedest City in America

Dr. Tammy Ingram joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavey and Its Legacies as they discuss Dr. Ingram’s upcoming book project titled The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Abigail Cooper on the Movements of Black Refugees in the Civil War Era

Slavery and Its Legacies – Abigail Cooper on the Movements of Black Refugees in the Civil War Era

Thomas Thurston spoke with Abigail Cooper, an Assistant Professor in History at Brandeis University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about her work examining Civil War refugee or contraband camps across the South. Her talk traces the migrations and settlement patterns of black refugees while elucidating the cross-cultural encounters that took place in the camps

Infectious Disease: Episode I

Infectious Disease: Episode I

Want to learn more about infectious diseases? In the first episode of two on infectious diseases, the focus topic for the June 2017 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, we will be discussing the history of epidemics, how infections affect our bodies, and how to prevent the spread of the infectious diseases.