Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Episode 1941
In Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026), historian John Garrison Marks tells…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026)
Episode 1939
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano
Episode 1938
1. A complete list of University of California Press journals is available at UC Press Journals
2. Clare E. B. Cannon; Advancing sustainable transiti…
4 months ago
Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
Episode 1937
A cemetery as open-air museum? Historian and award-winning author of Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Centr…
4 months ago
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1936
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the fi…
4 months ago
Blair LM Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
Episode 1934
Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is the first fully illustrated history of Juneteen…
4 months, 1 week ago
Youssef J. Carter, "The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path" (UNC Press, 2026)
Episode 1935
Youssef J. Carter’s The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026) is a stunning meditation on Black Atl…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1933
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, h…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 1932
There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things can only …
4 months, 1 week ago
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1931
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communit…
4 months, 1 week ago