Breaking History Podcast

Image: AHA 2022 logo (https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting) AHA2022 Online (February 21-27) registration: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting/aha22-online Jeff Lamson and Adam Tomasi, World History PhD students at Northeastern University in Boston, discuss their visit to the American Historical Association's 135th Annual Meeting, held this year in New Orleans, LA from January 6-9, 2022. Speaking of great conferences, the Breaking History podcast would like to let listeners know that Northeastern's History Graduate Student Association is hosting a hybrid conference for graduate students in world history and public history on Saturday, April 9, 2022, with the theme “Crisis and Change across the Anthropocene: Environments, Conflicts, and Inequalities." Graduate students can submit proposals here(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIOP6HSw_NpmixuO1gCVAkc53-t2E3OK0f6YO-3FFlWdIMjA/viewform. The deadline is February 14, 2022. And thank you as always to our sound editor, World History PhD student Cassie Cloutier!

In this episode, history PhD candidates Cassie Cloutier and Luke Scalone, and host Adam Tomasi, discuss preparing for comprehensive exams at Northeastern University. If you're thinking about a history PhD or have comps coming up yourself, learn some excellent tips and perspectives from us!

In this episode of the Breaking History podcast, host Adam Tomasi, an incoming third-year PhD student in world history at Northeastern, discusses the first year of graduate school with two Northeastern graduate students: Hunter Moskowitz, an incoming second-year PhD student in world history, and Liam Moore, an incoming second-year MA student in world history. We discussed how to succeed in your first year of graduate school, some of our favorite classes, and plans for the future! This is recommended listening for anyone who is interested in attending a history graduate program.

In this interview, host Adam Tomasi talks with Prof. Timothy Brown, the chair of the History department at Northeastern and author of Sixties Europe, recently published with Cambridge University Press. The interview covers many topics, including the graduate school experience, Brown's previous books, and his "Historical Theory and Methodology" course this past Fall.

In this episode, host Adam Tomasi interviews Professor Marty Blatt, the Director of Public History at Northeastern University, who retired at the end of this year's spring semester. Topics include graduate school and student activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Marty's connections to scholars and activists like Howard Zinn, Murray Bookchin, and Noam Chomsky, the joys of teaching, and Marty's long career in public history including more than two decades with the National Park Service.

Dr. Laura Frader, retiring after forty years of teaching in Northeastern's history department, has produced excellent scholarship on French social history and European gender history. Our host, Adam Tomasi, will be talking with her about graduate education, social justice, historical objectivity and data, teaching, and stories about running into Malcolm X and Michel Foucault.

Episode 37: A Conversation with Professor Cameron Blevins by Breaking History Committee

Episode 36: COVID-19 in Context: Histories of the Present by Breaking History Committee

We have our first social distancing episode! Join Adam, James, and Matt as we interview Dr. Jamie Parker, freshly off his dissertation defense, on his dissertation: "The Fluidity of Late Colonial Development: Water Management, State Building, and Rural Resistance in Kenya 1938-63." On the heels of James and Matt's dissertation defenses, we work through defending dissertations in the mid-March pandemic stages during the first couple weeks of Massachusetts shutting down. Jamie talks about how the British colonial government in Kenyan took resources away from natives and gave them to white settlers in the name of progress and profit. Jamie makes his intervention into the history of development and water resources in the British Empire, using Kenya as his case study. He shows how prioritizing specific economic growth by people far away over all else leads to disastrous consequences. He looks at the power dynamics and how tribal groups interacted with settlers, the colonial government, and the London offices. Jamie lays out the timeline of the Kenyan water mismanagement from the war to the Mau Mau rebellion through independence and post-colonial structures, with the focus on cash-crops. How does that play out in the larger globe, when development agencies replicate putting specific models onto larger population centers? What led Dr. Parker to look to Kenyan colonial water management? What was defending his dissertation like during a pandemic like? What's next for Dr. Jamie Parker and the rest of the newly minted doctors of history? Book mentioned in the episode: "The Development Century" by Stephen J Macekura and Erez Manela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40012143-the-development-century "Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism" by Joseph M. Hodge https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2139250.Triumph_of_the_Expert "Empire State-Building: War And Welfare In Kenya 1925-52" by Joanna Lewis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8349599-empire-state-building "Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980" by Kara Moskowitz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44665459-seeing-like-a-citizen "Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya" by Martin S. Shanguhyia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27910250-population-tradition-and-environmental-control-in-colonial-kenya "Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro" by Matthew V. Bender https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41839963-water-brings-no-harm "Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History" by Heather J. Hoag https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18049134-developing-the-rivers-of-east-and-west-africa "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Cassie Cloutier Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, James Robinson, Adam Tomasi twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Please join our host Will, along with Adam, James, Matt, and Simon, as we discuss the radical left since the fall of the Soviet Union. We discuss categorization of the left since 1989, with movements like the anti-globalization, anti-war, Black Lives Matter, Occupy, etc. What defines the left? We talk about the longer history and how it comes back to today, and how its played out strategically. Was the collapse of the Soviet Union good or bad? What about movements in the Global South, the Cold War, and what's happening globally today? How is the battle between the far right and radical left played out in recent years? Why did white working class support switch from left to right, at least in a perceptional sense? What about anti-fascist organizing? Violence and non-violence? Book mentioned in the episode: Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43477709-being-numerous The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Cassie Cloutier Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Adam Tomasi, James Robinson, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, Simon Purdue, Will Whitworth twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Join Matt, Jamie, Adam, and Simon as we interview James Robinson for his dissertation topic "Strikes and Strikeouts: Building An Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Working Class Sports Culture From Below in the United States, 1918-1950." We talk about the genesis of the labor sports movement in the United States, from immigrant communities to radical groups engaging with sports to a large scale mass sports movement through the CIO, and how it connects with the Worker Sport movement of Europe. We look at how the Socialist Party and Communist Party engaged with sports in the interwar period. How do social justice militants work to claim the sphere of sports for working class people of all backgrounds? We chat about the periodization of the Socialists and Communists, and some of the people involved in the building of Labor Sports, like Olga Madar, Dot Tucker, John Gallo, and Lester Rodney. Join us for this fascinating look at the connections between labor history, radical history, and sports history! Books mentioned in the podcast: Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335626.Making_a_New_Deal Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History by Tony Collins https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16193650-sport-in-capitalist-society Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the Uaw, and the Struggle for the American Unionism (Labor in Crisis) by Jonathan Cutler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307090.Labor_s_Time Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era by Brian Dolber https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30777744-media-and-culture-in-the-u-s-jewish-labor-movement The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century by Michael Denning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952955.The_Cultural_Front The Story Of Worker Sport by Arnd Krüger https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4172844-the-story-of-worker-sport Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports by Gabriel Kuhn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398404-playing-as-if-the-world-mattered Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32440151-silk-stockings-and-socialism Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 by Roy Rosenzweig https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489509.Eight_Hours_for_What_We_Will The Park and the People: A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1153123.The_Park_and_the_People Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Rob Ruck https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9596279-raceball Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber, Jules Tygiel (Forward) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1215952.Press_Box_Red The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947848.The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class "A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 by Robert M. Zecker https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35011931-a-road-to-peace-and-freedom Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478.Bowling_Alone The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Cassie Cloutier Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Jamie Parker, Adam Tomasi, Simon Purdue twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Join Simon, James, Adam, Chuck, and Huseyin Kurt as we interview Matt Bowser about his dissertation, "Misdirected Rage: The Origins of Islamophobia in Burma, 1930-1948", that takes a deep historical dive into the roots of the current crisis in Myanmar. We take a look at the late colonial period in Burma in the 1930s. Matt's argument looks at the anti-colonial movement between the socialists and the ultra-nationalists who scape-goated the Muslim population in order to gain power, with the encouragement of the British authorities. Matt talks about his academic path looking at empires, and we riff on the tactics of ultra-nationalists, including the fascist U Saw, in their struggle for leadership of the anti-colonial struggle against the socialists. Matt connects the code-words of "Muslim" for blaming Indians without blaming the British. He talks his about theory on co-colonialism, as wealthy Indians ruled Burma economically through the British, even as working class Indians came into the country for work. How did it play out on the ground? How is the 1938 anti-muslim riots connect to how genocide has happened in Myanmar, targeted at Muslims? How does this play out elsewhere? What happens afterwards, during WWII and the Cold War? We also hear about Bowser's research journeys and methods in navigating in a charged political climate to dig up potentially sensitive history in Myanmar. Books to read for more information! Regarding the Rohingya: Ibrahim, Azeem. The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Publishing, 2017. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26717021-the-rohingyas Regarding Buddhism and colonial Burma: Turner, Alicia. Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2017. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22828775-saving-buddhism Regarding Indian Ocean world: Aiyar, Sana. Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25401212-indians-in-kenya Amrith, Sunil S. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17804366-crossing-the-bay-of-bengal The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Simon Purdue, James Robinson , Chuck Clough, Adam Tomasi, Huseyin Kurt twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Join Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and James Robinson as we discuss Jack Gronau's dissertation, "French Women, But Not Citizens: Colonial Emigration, Imperial Prostitution, and the Emancipatory Writings of French Feminists, 1897-1962" with Jack himself. Jack tells us about how he came to focus on French North Africa and French Feminist imperialist history, from German history to Jewish history to WWII. His dissertation is framed as a series of episodes, and how French feminists engaged with the Empire and how they navigated the French imperial project. Jack details how he found voices invisible in history, by looking into French women's emigration societies' papers, the Feminist Press in Algeria, and how masculinity/femininity played out in colonial Algeria. French women would enforce racial norms and help normalize men in settler-colonies, Gronau argues. The "Civilizing Mission" was, in the end, a way for French women to claim their part in the Empire. Last, Gronau looks to the campaign against prostitution as a way to bolster their emancipatory claims. Books mentions in the podcast: "Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915" by Antoinette Burton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295901.Burdens_of_History "French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina" by Marie-Paule Ha https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18951025-french-women-and-the-empire "Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris" by Jennifer Anne Boittin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8577409-colonial-metropolis "Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation" by Tyler Stovall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22668823-transnational-france The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Jamie Parker, and James Robinson. twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Please join Bridget, Debra, James, Jamie, and Matt to talk about the MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in the US and Canada) movement. Debra leads us through the discussion on this long standing emergency situation in both the United States and Canada. We talk about the history of the movement and how its played out differently in Canada and the United States. How does this fit into the larger history of violence against Indigenous women and how the movement is fighting back. We talk about a few different cases and how the history of "Indian Affairs" agencies has played out. What's the weakness of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions? Full disclosure: None of the speakers are indigenous people and we acknowledge that. Further Reading on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in the US and Canada: The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) https://www.nwac.ca/ Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/ National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca Walking With Our Sisters http://walkingwithoursisters.ca Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report-Urban Indian Health Institute http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women- and-Girls-Report.pdf Sovereign Bodies Institute-MMIW Database https://www.sovereign-bodies.org S. 1942 Savanna’s Act 115 th Congress https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1942/text Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt, eds. Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters Sarah Deer, The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide Jane M Smith, Richard M Thompson II, CRS Report for Congress. Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Indians in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization and the SAVE Women Act. April 18, 2012. Emmanuelle Walter, Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families, and How Canada has Failed Indigenous Women The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, Debra Lavelle, Jamie Parker, and James Robinson. twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Please join Bridget, James, Matt, Simon, Thanasis, and Will as we discuss the global history of right-wing populism. What is populism? What is the history of nativist populism? How has it played out across the globe? Where we can trace direct intellectual traditions versus general impulses? Why has it been so effective an organizing force in modern history? How has gender played out in right-wing populism? Is it inherently masculine? Is right-wing populism inevitably if we look historically, to our present day? Where is the crossover between right-wing and left-wing populism? How do conspiracy theories play in populism? How do these ideas spread? Books Mentioned in the Podcast: Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage In The American Grain by Catherine McNicol Stock https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1214303.Rural_Radicals Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/399136.Imagined_Communities The Populist Vision by Charles Postel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1599876.The_Populist_Vision From Fascism to Populism in History by Federico Finchelstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34408690-from-fascism-to-populism-in-history The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt Against Elite Democracy by Richard Javad Heydarian https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35548361-the-rise-of-duterte Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 by Elizabeth Sanders https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335652.Roots_of_Reform The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/770032.The_Age_of_Reform Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance by Timothy S. Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5138638-weimar-radicals Sexuality and German Fascism by Dagmar Herzog https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349800.Sexuality_and_German_Fascism Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35013165-mothers-of-massive-resistance The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, Thanasis Kinias, Simon Purdue, James Robinson, Will Whitworth twitter: @BreakingHistPod

Please join Bridget, James, Matt, and Thanasis as we talk about settler-colonialism in world history! What is settler-colonialism? What are settler-colonies and how did they develop differently? Replacing indigenous populations or ruling over those populations? Who belongs and who is erased in the public perception of the nation? We discuss the "blank space" presented by settlers to push indigenous people out and the differing intentions of settler-colonies. We talk about how hyper-masculinity explicitly defines political systems of settler-colonialism. Did settler-colonialism produce whiteness or was it something different? How does settler-colonialism fit into the larger imperial project? What does it mean to live in a settler-colonial society today? Books mentioned in the episode: Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 by Dane Kennedy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1129042.Islands_of_White Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2551707.Drawing_the_Global_Colour_Line Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview by Lorenzo Veracini https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11318355-settler-colonialism Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event by Patrick Wolfe https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1238448.Settler_Colonialism_and_the_Transformation_of_Anthropology Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23602714-traces-of-history The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, Thanasis Kinias, Jamie Parker, James Robinson

Join Bridget, Dan, James, Jamie, Matt, and Thanasis as we discuss the legacies of World War One, as the centenary of the First World War's end of the war armistice is marked on the publishing day of this episode. We discuss issues of public memories of masculinity, propaganda, world vs the European war, how the war is remembered differently in different places. We look to how the war was used by political movements to shift memories for their own purposes, such as the "stabbed in the back" myth by the Nazis, and how shame was used to frame the war. We discuss the possibilities after the war that quickly go awry, especially in how the Ottoman Empire is carved up and the limits of "making the world safe for democracy" when dealing with colonial empires. Who gets included in citizenship after the war and who doesn't? How do the empires of Europe begin to crumble in the ashes of war, as subject people take the opportunity to push back? How should Armistice Day be remembered? We remember the veterans but what about the mutinies that end the war? We discuss how narrow the definition of veteran has been, and how gender lines are drawn. We do some comparisons of Armistice Day vs Veterans Day in the UK vs US. We talk about the poppy, and the consequences of war globally! Picture: 369th Infantry (Colored): the "Harlem Hellfighters", who fought under French command because General Pershing refused to have them in the American forces. Books mentioned that the listener may want to pick up in order to know all the good points we brought up: The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1537700.The_Wilsonian_Moment A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78107.A_Peace_to_End_All_Peace The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, Thanasis Kinias, Jamie Parker, James Robinson, Dan Squizzero

Join us as we talk about the legacies of Cold War history on our present world. We chat about what is happening both between the Capitalist West and Communist Bloc, and the anti-colonial to postcolonial global struggles. We talk power, gender structures and identities, economics, ideas of left vs right, nationalism, the Non-Aligned Movement, shifting alliances, and the propagandistic triumph of neoliberal capitalism coupled bound by right-wing nationalism. We look to the rise of the hard-right in the wake of the Cold War. Is there books to read to know more? That's a really good point, listener. Yes, they are! The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945 1968 by Kevin G. Boyle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/709532.The_UAW_and_the_Heyday_of_American_Liberalism_1945_1968 Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left by Paul M. Buhle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1749496.Marxism_in_the_United_States Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era by Michael E. Latham https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1075782.Modernization_as_Ideology The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Arne Westad https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156594.The_Global_Cold_War The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206541.The_Lavender_Scare Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534736.Tales_of_the_Lavender_Menace Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12896981-patterns-of-empire The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser, Cassie Cloutier, and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, Cassie Clouter, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Simon Perdue, James Robinson, and Will Whitworth

Join as we talk to English PhD Candidate Liz Polcha, who specializes in 18th and 19th century American and Caribbean literature, about her dissertation, "Redacting Desire: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Science in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World". Liz talks about her research path, navigating the worlds of literary criticism and history, feminist and postcolonial digital scholarship, and her dissertation. Very creepy diaries and travel narratives of the slave world of the early Caribbean! She walks us through some of her subjects, who fancied themselves as scientists but often functioned more as rapists, sex tourists, and torture, not as outliers but as a regular part of colonial life. Liz also talks about her experience in organizing a grad worker union and building hope in the academia, teaching, community, landing fellowships, and what's next! Don't miss this terrific interview with the one and only Liz Polcha! Projects mentioned in the podcast: Early Caribbean Digital Archive https://ecda.northeastern.edu/ Women Writers Project https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/ Articles and Books mentioned in the episode: "The Origin of Others" by Toni Morrison https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34758228-the-origin-of-others "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" Hortense J. Spillers https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf "Venus in Two Acts" Saidiya Hartman https://myelms.umd.edu/courses/1224150/files/46327971/download?download_frd=1 "Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive" by Marisa J Fuentes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28561909-dispossessed-lives Other Shout-out: "Colored Conventions: Bringing 19th Century Black Organizing To Digital Life" http://coloredconventions.org/ The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Thanasis Kinias, Molly Nebiolo, Jamie Parker, and James Robinson

Join us as we talk with PhD Candidate Olivier Schouteden as we talk about French imperialism's explorers in late 19th century Indochina. How did these private adventurers interact with local people, the French imperial state, and how much control did the central state have over these people? What is an "explorer"? What does it say about the weaknesses of French imperialism, and how the French state eventually tried to reel them in? Olivier walks us through his dissertation and how the image of the explorer animated the spatial French imperial project, state-backed and private scientific societies, no matter the cost and resistance of people of present day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We even see one explorer, Charles-Marie David de Mayréna, set up his own rogue country in the middle of madness: Kingdom of Sedang (the basis of the novel Heart of Darkness, set in Central Africa, which became Apocalypse Now, returning to Indochina.) Olivier talks about his research adventures in the archives in France, Cambodia, and Vietnam, looking at letters and papers of french explorers, his experience with teaching, and what's next. Books mentioned in the episode: "Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa" by Johannes Fabian https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/859138.Out_of_Our_Minds "The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture" by Michael F. Robinson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2091360.The_Coldest_Crucible "Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa" by Edward Berenson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8717661-heroes-of-empire "The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History" by Paul Carter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2854657-the-road-to-botany-bay "The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet" by Erik Mueggler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11694721-the-paper-road "The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism" by Antoinette Burton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26262770-the-trouble-with-empire "Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'" by Gregor Mueller https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16780270-colonial-cambodia-s-bad-frenchmen "Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History" Michael G. Vann (future book) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/42110 The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join us as we talk to Dave DeCamp as he talks about his dissertation work and animal imagery in the British Empire's self-imagination: "The Elephant in the Room: Empire, Animals, and Popular Culture in Interwar London". From the household to the tube station, imperial influence at home was one of the many sites where empire was re-imagined and rearticulated. Dave's dissertation focuses use of exotic animal imagery in London’s popular culture during the interwar. This animal imagery is significant to understanding the ways humans represent non-humans, other humans as non-humans, and the disconnect between the imagined and experienced geographies of empire. Dave also talks about his work in the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern, the "Our Marathon" project on the Boston Marathon bombings, and Digital Humanities. He gives his advice for surviving a PhD program. Books mentioned in podcast: Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960 by John M. MacKenzie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2226036.Propaganda_and_Empire Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity by David Gilbert (Editor) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1578443.Imperial_Cities An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture by Randy Malamud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13722019-an-introduction-to-animals-and-visual-culture The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England by Harriet Ritvo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502905.The_Animal_Estate The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo by Ian Jared Miller https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13277124-the-nature-of-the-beasts Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture W.J.T. Mitchell https://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/mitchell.pdf The Right to Look Nicholas Mirzoeff http://nicholasmirzoeff.com/RTL/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/RTL-from-CI.pdf The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join us as we talk with 5th Year PhD Candidate Bridget Keown about her dissertation, "‘She is lost to time and place’: Women, War Trauma, and the First World War". Bridget gives a feminist critique of psychology, which argues that the field of psychology has always been influenced by social ideas about gender. She then talks about her chapters on trauma on the home front, including grief, air raids, and refugees. She then moves to the experience of Irish women during the 1916 Easter Rising. Finally, she wraps by looking at the women dealing with trauma on the battlefield, from describing as professional and volunteer nurses, ambulance drivers, etc., described their emotional experiences of war. Bridget takes apart "shell shock" as a purely masculine phenomenon by looking at first hand accounts of women's voices, as well as some of the ethical problems of researching asylums. Bridget then reflects on her experiences as graduate student and as a teaching professional, and how enriching teaching has been for her. Books mentioned in podcast: Women and the First World War by Susan R. Grayzel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/388781.Women_and_the_First_World_War Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War by Susan R. Grayzel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1042873.Women_s_Identities_at_War Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War by Christine E. Hallett https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12073532-containing-trauma Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War by Christine E. Hallett https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21548148-veiled-warriors Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War by Peter Leese https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215438.Shell_Shock Works of Fionnuala Walsh on Irish women in WWI http://ucd.academia.edu/FionnualaWalsh Her Privates We by Frederic Manning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376817.Her_Privates_We Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374388.Testament_of_Youth The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen N. La Motte https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35876890-the-backwash-of-war-the-human-wreckage-of-the-battlefield-as-witnessed TV Show mentioned: Blackadder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter. Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time. This is episode three. In this episode, Kemal discusses his life in the years after the student movement and how he remained involved in the struggle to build a better and just Indonesia. For a full transcription of this episode, go here: https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kamal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-3/ The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter. Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time. This is episode two. In this episode, we discuss Kemal Taruc's life in the student movement, one of the few avenues of opposition to the regime, and the choices and sacrifices made in order to keep alive the flame of resistance. For a full transcription of this episode, go here: https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kemal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-1/kemal-taruc-interview-part-2/ The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter. Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time. This is episode one. In this episode, we trace the history of the Indonesian struggle for independence, and the resulting political upheaval, through the actions of Kemal’s politically active family. He also discusses his experiences during the coup, and how he and his family survived the massacres that followed. For a full transcription of this episode, go here: https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kemal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-1/ The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join us as we talk to Dr. Laura Frader about her work in labor and gender! We talk about working class patterns in France, and connecting her work to women's history. We then talk about her current project on the Treaty of Rome and gender equality policies. Dr. Frader speaks to her own experience working in the academy and the problems of gender inequality and labor. Dr. Frader’s research focuses on the historical and cultural foundations of social inequality, particularly gender inequality in modern Europe. She is currently working on the history of gender equality policies of the European Community since the Treaty of Rome (1957) and their impacts on member states. Her publications include Gender and Class in Modern Europe (co-edited with Sonya O. Rose, Cornell University Press, 1996), Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (co-edited with Herrick Chapman, Berghahn, 2004); and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (Duke University Press, 2008) as well as many articles in English and French-language books and journals. Submit a paper to the Northeastern University Graduate History Association's 10th Annual Graduate World History Conference! It is scheduled for March 24th-25th and the keynote speaker is Ann Stoler! For more information: https://nuhistorygrads.wordpress.com/conference/ Books mentioned in podcast: What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15999534-what-soldiers-do Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2551707.Drawing_the_Global_Colour_Line Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa by Richard Price https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6368423-making-empire Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5966580-along-the-archival-grain World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict by Heather E. Streets-Salter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32735228-world-war-one-in-southeast-asia Statement from the History Graduate Student Association on graduate employee unionization: "We would like to say that, as a members of the History Graduate Student Association, we assert the right of graduate employees to organize a union and collectively bargain, and we condemn the actions of Northeastern's administration is spreading misleading emails, harassing union activists, and spending enormous sums on anti-union law firms." The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join us as we interview Dr. Harlow Robinson on the 100th anniversary of the Russia's October Revolution. How is the October Revolution remembered? What is its legacy? How did Soviet filmmakers and American filmmakers interact? How did Dr. Robinson navigate academia during the Cold War? How did Russian emigres influence the study of Soviet history in the US? How is the Soviet Union remembered today? Dr. Robinson also reflects on his academic career as he approaches teaching retirement (though not writing retirement!) Matthews Distinguished University Professor Dr. Harlow Robinson is a specialist in Soviet and Russian cultural history, and has written widely on Soviet film and the performing arts. His major publications include Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography, which has appeared in five editions; The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok; and Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev, which he edited and translated. His book, Russians in Hollywood: Hollywood’s Russians was published in 2007. He has also contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Opera News, Opera Quarterly, Dance, Playbill, Symphony and other publications. As a lecturer, he has appeared at the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival and Bard Festival. He has also worked as a consultant for numerous performing arts organizations, and as a writer and commentator for PBS, NPR and the Canadian Broadcasting System. Books mentioned in the episode: The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24040192-the-new-tsar The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3171446-the-forsaken Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262126-mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking City of Thieves by David Benioff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971304.City_of_Thieves A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430012-a-gentleman-in-moscow The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join Matt Bowser and James Robinson as we are joined by PhD Candidate Regina Kazyulina, as she talks about her dissertation research on the fraternization and collaboration phenomenons of Ukrainian women during the Nazi occupation, and later Soviet reprisals. What exactly did collaboration and fraternization entail? How did women survive the occupation? How did women avoid forced labor? Why was the local population initially sympathetic to the invading Germans but later turned on them? Regina tells us about how she researched these choices women made during the war. How does one keep true when translating documents? Books mentioned in the episode: Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule by Karel C. Berkhoff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209253.Harvest_of_Despair German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945 by Alexander Dallin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3097905-german-rule-in-russia-1941-1945 The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath by István Deák, Jan Tomasz Gross https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199599.The_Politics_of_Retribution_in_Europe Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17612712-hitler-s-furies The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join Jamie Parker and James Robinson as we sit down with PhD candidate Sana Tannoury-Karam to talk about Arab Communists and the Arab Left in the interwar period through World War Two. We talked about Sana's journey from studying political science in Beirut to studying history in Boston. She touches on individuals in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq and the evolution of Communist Parties throughout the Arab world from organic local creativity to strict Stalinism. Sana argues for an "internationalist moment" in the interwar period, contrary of the historiography of the region being sectarian and divided. She recounts her research journeys and difficulties consulting resources in the Middle East, especially with her focus on Lebanon and women's movements with Communism. She also explores the tensions between labor and CPs, and the politics of global anti-fascism. Books mentioned: "Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon" by Elizabeth Thompson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1050974.Colonial_Citizens "Militant Women of a Fragile Nation" by Malek Abisaab https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9405372-militant-women-of-a-fragile-nation "Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948" by Zachary Lockman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522679.Comrades_and_Enemies "Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954" by Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522681.Workers_on_the_Nile "Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798 -1939" by Albert Hourani https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185611.Arabic_Thought_in_the_Liberal_Age_1798_1939 "Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late 19th Century Until the 1960s" by Christoph Schumann https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7784825-liberal-thought-in-the-eastern-mediterranean "The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914" by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7133631-the-eastern-mediterranean-and-the-making-of-global-radicalism-1860-1914 "The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration: The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East" (article) by Masha Kirasirova https://muse.jhu.edu/article/650067 Picture from Sana's collection: Workers gathered for the first public celebration of May day in 1925 Beirut. Red flags and slogans of ‘workers of the world unite’. The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg

Join Bridget Keown, Matt Bowser, and James Robinson as we join Dr. Bill Fowler, Professor of Early American History and New England Maritime History, educator at Northeastern University from 1971 - 1998, and again 2005 - present (retiring), former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1998-2005), and a number of other positions in institutions around New England and elsewhere. He also lectures on cruise ships across the Atlantic. Dr Fowler's faculty profile: https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/faculty/william-fowler Dr. Fowler tells us about his career, his thoughts on the place of New England in World History, his experiences at the MHS, being apart of the Boston part of the Bicentennial, being a park ranger in Lexington, and reflects on his plans after academia. Books by Dr. Fowler: Under Two Flags: The Navy in the Civil War https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1896383.Under_Two_Flags Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3958200-silas-talbot America and the Sea: Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport (co-author) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7156430-america-and-the-sea William Ellery: A Rhode Island Politico and Lord of Admiralty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/803552.William_Ellery Rebels Under Sail: The Navy in the Revolution https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3958199-rebels-under-sail Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581018.Jack_Tars_and_Commodores Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700950.Samuel_Adams Empires at War: The French and Indian War and The Struggle for North America, 1754-1763 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1743784.Empires_at_War Books mentioned in the episode: "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_The_Whale "Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34057.Captains_Courageous "The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail" by W. Jeffrey Bolster https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15723969-the-mortal-sea The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4938808-the-maritime-history-of-massachusetts-1783-1860 The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music was composed by: Kieran Legg

Join historians Bridget Keown and James Robinson, with Sociologist Mia Renauld, as we are joined by Dr. Rashad Shabazz, who stopped by Northeastern University to promote his new book, Spatializing Blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago". We talk about Dr. Shabazz's academic path and making connections between international carceral containments before arriving at racialization of carceral power in Chicago, and how it manifests from slavery to schools. He explores how masculinity is performed in poor black spaces. Rashad Shabazz is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Minnesota State University-Mankato, a master’s degree from the Department of Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. For further reading: "Spatializing Blackness" by Rashad Shabazz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25404003-spatializing-blackness?ac=1&from_search=true "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" by Mike Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484028.City_of_Quartz Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education edited by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048854-schools-under-surveillance?from_search=true "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" by Michel Foucault https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish?from_search=true "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?ac=1&from_search=true "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag?ac=1&from_search=true "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow?ac=1&from_search=true "Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary" by Dennis Childs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23508133-slaves-of-the-state?ac=1&from_search=true "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America" by Elizabeth Hinton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27311802-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime?ac=1&from_search=true "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom?from_search=true "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" by George Jackson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962568.Soledad_Brother?ac=1&from_search=true "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata?ac=1&from_search=true "Live from Death Row" by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449916.Live_from_Death_Row?ac=1&from_search=true Dillon Rodriguez: http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/rodriguez/ "Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11155862-punished?ac=1&from_search=true The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Our Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Our Theme Music was composed by: Kieran Legg

Join Bridget Keown, Jackie Gronau, James Robinson, Matt Bowser, and Thanasis Kinias as we join PhD Candidate Feruza Aripova to discuss her research into the suppression of same sex desire in the Soviet Union, either through punishment in the Stalinist era to later pathologizing same sex desire as a disease to be treated. The 1930s saw the rolling back of both legalization of homosexuality and abortion that had been gained by the Revolution. Feruza guides us through what happened, how same sex desire continued in prisons and underground communities, and how her background growing up in Soviet Central Asia shaped her experience. How did same sex desire come to be defined as a threat to the Soviet state and Communist Party? Feruza guides us through her research in the archives in the Baltics, and private archives in Moscow. We round it up with talking about the Women's Section of the Communist Party in exploring Soviet Feminism, specifically on Alexandra Kollontai. Further Reading: Agamben, Giorgio. What Is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. Aldrich, Robert. Gay Life and Culture : A World History. New York, NY: Universe, 2006. Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia : The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness : Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Foucault, Michel, and Jay Miskowiec. “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 16, no. 1 (April 1, 1986): 22–27. doi:10.2307/464648. Kollontai, A., and Alix. Holt. Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai. Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1977. Kon, I.S. The Sexual Revolution in Russia : From the Age of the Czars to Today. New York: The Free Press, 1995. Rudusa, Rita., Forced Underground: Homosexuals in Soviet Latvia, 2014. Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Bridget Keown, Dan Squizzero, James Robinson, and Thanasis Kinias, with our guest this week, Dr. Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and core faculty in the NuLab for Texts, Maps and Networks. We chat about his journey into Digital Humanities, from his initial research into the moral panics about attention-span discourse of the 20th century and the use of text mining for his research. Dr. Schmidt talks about the need for quantitative research in history using technological tools. Will historians hand over quantitative analysis to the social sciences? Dr. Schmidt's webpage: http://benschmidt.org/ NULabs: http://www.northeastern.edu/nulab/ Twitters to follow to keep up with Digital Humanities: @dancohen @ryancordell @nowviskie @amandafrench @miriamkp @Ted_Underwood Journals/Books: Journal of Cultural Analytics http://culturalanalytics.org/ Debates in the Digital Humanities: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/debates-in-the-digital-humanities Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join James Robinson, Kyra Millard, Matt Bowser, and Thanasis Kinias as we interview Dr. Ryan Cordell as we talk about intersections between 19th century apocalyptic literature and digital humanities, and how Dr. Cordell has used DH in order to research his area of study. We talk about Print History of the 19th century. We then talk about the Viral Texts project and the potential for text mapping networks for historical research. Why are newspapers named "The Telegraph"? https://ryancordell.org/ https://viraltexts.org/ Books/Articles Mentioned In The Podcast: "Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning" by Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/literarynetworks/files/2015/12/LONG_SO_CI.pdf "19th Century Data Vizualization" by Lauren Klein http://lklein.com/category/data-visualization/ "Shifting Scales: Between Literature and Social Science" by Ted Underwood and Jim English http://bostonography.benschmidt.org/Readings/English%20and%20Underwood%20-%202016%20-%20Shifting%20Scales%20Between%20Literature%20and%20Social%20Scie.pdf Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Bridget, James, and Matt as we interview Nav Athwal, an outgoing Masters Student of World History at Northeastern University, who focuses on the history of Medicine in the British Empire. We will talk about his academic journey from medical school to business to historian and his current process of applying to PhD programs. We talk specifically about his latest research on imperial medicine in British-ruled India and passive resistance vs active resistance. Nav also gives his thoughts on subaltern history, We then commiserate about trying to get into PhD programs. Nav tells us what he thinks of David Arnold. He links world history and subaltern methodology and problematizing Indian nationalist history. Books mentioned in the podcast: "Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India" by David Arnold https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552393.Colonizing_the_Body "The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856" by David Arnold https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606338.The_Tropics_and_the_Traveling_Gaze "Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India" by Ranajit Guha https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344813.Dominance_Without_Hegemony "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference" by Dipesh Chakrabarty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008155.Provincializing_Europe "Modern India, 1885 1947" by Sumit Sarkar https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4837599-modern-india-1885-1947 "Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire" by Mrinalini Sinha https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631220.Specters_of_Mother_India "Ideologies of the Raj" by Thomas R. Metcalf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21334316-ideologies-of-the-raj "Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World" by Niall Ferguson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166434.Empire Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Bridget, James, and Thanasis as we are joined by Dr. Moya Bailey. Dr. Moya Bailey is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in Digital Humanities (DH). She is a monthly sustainer of the Allied Media Conference, through which she is able to bridge her passion for social justice and her work in DH. She is a graduate of the Emory University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She is the founder and co-conspirator of Quirky Black Girls, a network for strange and different black girls and now serves at the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She attended Spelman College where she initially endeavored to become a physician. She fell in love with Women’s Studies and activism, ultimately driving her to graduate school in lieu of medicine. As an undergrad she received national attention for her involvement in the “Nelly Protest” at Spelman, a moment that solidified her deep commitment to examining representations of Black women in popular culture. We talk about the role of the academic in social change, DH and intersectional social change, the Allied Media Conference, the story of Quirky Black Girls, the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, the concept of "Misogynoir". We touch on Dr. Bailey's dissertation on how representations in medical school curriculums shape how doctors see different marginalized groups and how the Nelly protest shaped her research and activism, how problematic portrayals become international, and dismantling binaries. Dr. Bailey talks about the possibilities of linking activists, academics, and scifi writers at the Black To The Future conference. Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network: http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com/ The Allied Media Conference: https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc Black To The Future Conference: https://blacktothefuture.princeton.edu/ Books mentioned by Dr. Bailey: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html News item mentioned: Students at Spelman College protest Nelly's video "Tip Drill." http://www.alternet.org/story/18760/dilemma Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Today we talk smuggling! Join us as were are joined by Northeastern University History Department Faculty Philip Thai, who is a historian of Modern China with research and teaching interests that include legal history, economic history, business history, and history of capitalism. At the core of his inquiries is understanding the complex interplay between law, society, and economy. He is currently working on his manuscript tentatively titled, “The War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast,” which uses China’s campaigns against smuggling during the twentieth century to examine the transformation of state authority and the larger socioeconomic impact of state-building. Professor Thai received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. We talk about the theme of smuggling in China, how it fits into Chinese and World Histories, his journey from trade to smuggling, and his academic journey from being a financial advisor to a economics historian. Books mentioned by Dr. Thai: Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 by Eric Tagliacozzo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139755.Secret_Trades_Porous_Borders Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground by Michael Kwass https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736929-contraband?ac=1&from_search=true Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision by Brett Sheehan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23503010-industrial-eden?from_search=true News item mentioned: Chinese smugglers caught using zip-line for iPad/iPhone “shipments” http://www.geek.com/apple/chinese-smugglers-caught-using-zip-line-for-ipadiphone-shipments-1410447/ Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Northeastern Graduate students Bridget Keown and James Robinson as we join our department chair, Dr. Heather Streets-Salter, for a discussion on research and teaching of world history! We talk about Dr. Streets-Salter's path from American history to British Empire to Southeast Asian history. We also discuss world history teaching methods, research possibilities, and underresearched areas. Books by Dr. Streets-Salter: Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004) Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History(2006, 2009, 2012) with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler. Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global Perspective(2010 and 2014) with Trevor Getz. She is completing a monograph entitled Beyond Empire: Southeast Asia and the World During the Great War Novels Dr. Streets-Salter uses in teaching world history: Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126151.Kaffir_Boy Spider Eaters by Rae Yang https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525437.Spider_Eaters Other books mentioned in the podcast: The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War(Cambridge Military Histories) by Mustafa Aksakal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297038-the-ottoman-road-to-war-in-1914?ac=1&from_search=true The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia by Cemil Aydin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167838-the-politics-of-anti-westernism-in-asia?ac=1&from_search=true A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Sugata Bose https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177777.A_Hundred_Horizons?ac=1&from_search=true Empires at War: 1911-1923 (The Greater War) by Robert Gerwarth (Editor), Erez Manela (Editor) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492056-empires-at-war?ac=1&from_search=true Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by John Robert McNeill https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118559.Something_New_Under_the_Sun?ac=1&from_search=true The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia by Donald R. Wright https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207293.The_World_and_a_Very_Small_Place_in_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true World History Association annual conference, happening now in Ghent: http://www.thewha.org/conferences-events/future-conferences-symposia/2016-ghent-conference/ Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

(We recorded slightly out of order, so despite what we say, this is actually Episode 5.) Join Northeastern University Graduate Students James Robinson and Kyra Millard as we discuss the 19th Century Russian-Bulgarian Diplomatic History with newly minted PhD Mikhail Rekun. How did Pan-Slavism influence how Russian diplomats treated the newly independent Bulgaria? Dr. Rekun talks about his research adventures in the Bulgarian and Russian archives. He also touches on writing his dissertation and defending it. How does Diplomatic History fit into World History? Book on Russia-Bulgarian Relations mentioned in the podcast: Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879-1886 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5195627-tsarist-russia-and-balkan-nationalism?ac=1&from_search=true News Item: Putin's 'realpolitik' aims to make Russia indispensable http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-russia-indispensable-a-idUSKBN0TD1RQ20151124 Readercon: http://www.readercon.org/ Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Northeastern University Graduate Students Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, and James Robinson as we discuss the Easter Rebellion that sparked the Irish War of Independence, and whose 100 Anniversary just passed. We discuss some of the recent scholarship, the rising in World History, the role of women in the Easter Rising and their writing out of the history, Ireland and British settler-colonialism, and the Limerick Soviets. We touch briefly on the articles going around the internet about "Irish slavery" and the rebuttal. We wrap about Roger Casement and his diary, and the what-if of the Easter Rising. Books on Easter Rising mentioned in the podcast: Ireland And The First World War by David Fitzpatrick https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5116323-ireland-and-the-first-world-war?from_search=true&search_version=service 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25402257-1916 1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition by Kieran Allen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26153474-1916?from_search=true&search_version=service At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916 by Lucy McDiarmid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27134661-at-home-in-the-revolution?from_search=true&search_version=service How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305686.How_the_Irish_Became_White?from_search=true&search_version=service News item discussed: Two Cities, One Book: Dublin & Belfast Read Fallen by Lia Mills https://libranwriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/two-cities-one-book-dublin-belfast/ Also check out: Letters of 1916 http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Stories from 1916 podcast http://www.storiesfrom1916.com/ Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/

Join Northeastern University Graduate Students Bridget Keown, James Robinson, Jessica Muttitt, and Olivier Schouteden as we join Professor Rick Warner of Wabash College, and President of the World History Association. We talk about Dr. Warner's work in world history through food studies, as well as the work of the World History Association. Dr. Warner talks about world history methodology and research within his role as WHA President, as well as the coming WHA annual conference in Ghent. We make the big connections! Books in the field: The New World History: A Teacher's Companion by Ross E. Dunn http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/555928.The_New_World_History Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171369.Before_European_Hegemony Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167457.Sweetness_and_Power The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William Hardy McNeill https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1932185.The_Rise_of_the_West The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340415.The_Columbian_Exchange News item discussed: "Weary professors give up, concede that Africa is a country" By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/01/weary-professors-give-up-concede-that-africa-is-a-country/ Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ Website to come!

Join Northeastern University History Program Graduate Students Bridget Keown, James Robinson, and Matt Bowser as we interview Emory-bound PhD student Madelyn Stone about her capstone: "Power through Paradox: Interracial Influences in Apartheid-Era South African Art, 1960-1990". We talk about basic South African history that set up Apartheid, and how it related to Black Resistance Art in South Africa. We compare South African poster art to Irish political art during the same time period, using a world history lense. We touch on gender in South African resistance art, and how the poster movement helped end Apartheid as well as the state's response to the art. How do we touch on the recentness of Apartheid in teaching history? Related books: • Art of the South African Townships Gavin Younge, 1987 • The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art (1930-1988) Steven Sack, 1988 • Resistance Art in South Africa Sue Williamson, 1989 • Art from South Africa Museum of Modern Art, 1990 • Art and the End of Apartheid John Peffer, 2009 • Biko's Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness Shannen Hill, 2015 South Africa in the news: South African economy is on the brink of junk status http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-south-africa-precipice-20160330-story.html South Africa Appeals Parole for Apartheid-Era Assassin http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-africa-appeals-parole-apartheid-era-assassin-38024002 Student Protests Against Tuition Increases in South Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35883919 Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Featured image: Helen Sebidi, Don’t Let It Go (n.d.) Sound editing: Beka Bryer Produced: Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/breakhist/ Website to come!

Join us for our pilot episode! Breaking History is a world history podcast brought to you by graduate students at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. In our first episode, we speak with PhD Candidate Malcolm Purinton on why the pilsner came to dominate the beer world, through the British Empire, globalization, trade, technologies, science, and consumption. Malcolm talks about his research journeys, beer industry, and guerilla beer campaigns. We split a six pack. Rate & review us on iTunes! Comments/concerns/compliments, email us: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com