Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSchool Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 2 months ago
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Episode 158
By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921–2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising c…
3 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 50
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd's book Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (U Georgia Press, 2022) explains a curiosity: why a femin…
3 years, 2 months ago
Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
Episode 51
Young Edith and her siblings had access to the best educators in the world, but the girls were not taught how to handle the family money; that respon…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 194
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after Wo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Margaret Chowning, "Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 183
Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long n…
3 years, 2 months ago
Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 50
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right (U Georgia Press, 2022) is a statewide study of women’s part in the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Episode 141
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Found…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 153
In Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children (University of Illinois Press, 2023), Poster Children bassist Rose Marshack details her life in the 80…
3 years, 2 months ago
Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 8
You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some…
3 years, 2 months ago