Podcast appearances and mentions of Arlin M Adams

This week on The Past, The Promise, The Presidency: Presidential Crises we examine two presidential crises from the 1850s: Bleeding Kansas and the Utah War.So far this season, we've seen the nation solidify under George Washington's leadership. Then, we saw the city named for our first president nearly burned to the ground by British forces little more than a generation later. The United States survived each of those crises, but by the 1850s, the new nation was starting to come apart.    This week, we took a look at two crises from the 1850s: the violent struggle between pro and anti-slavery factions over the political fortunes of future states, known as "Bleeding Kansas," and the less well-known fight between federal authorities, president James Buchanan in particular, and Mormon leaders over governance of Utah. To put the coming Civil War into context and better understand these intertwined crises of federal expansion in the 1850s, we spoke with professor Sarah Barringer Gordon--Sally, to her friends--the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Barringer Gordon is one of the nation's experts on questions of constitutional religious freedoms. We then turned to professor Kellie Carter Jackson, who teaches in the department of Africana studies at Wellesley college. Dr. Carter Jackson's work focuses on Black abolitionists and the role of violence in the ongoing battle for slavery's abolition. Explore all this and more in Season II, Episode III: Bleeding Kansas and the Utah War. To learn more, visit pastpromisepresidency.com.

Details from the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 or the quarantines during the bubonic plague sound familiar today. In our second episode, we talk to historians about how past societies dealt with disease, and what happened when a new understanding of germs revolutionized our approach but led us to overlook the larger picture of health. A legal historian explains why the U.S. pandemic repose was state-centered. And an English professor looks at the AIDS epidemic, and reflects on the human right to mourn.Guests:David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of ScienceSarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of HistoryAlexander Chase-Levenson, Assistant Professor of HistoryDagmawi Woubshet, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English***Produced by Susan AhlbornNarrated and edited by Alex ScheinInterviews by Susan Ahlborn and Jane CarrollTheme music by Nicholas Escobar, C'18Additional music by Blue Dot SessionsIllustration by Nick MatejLogo by Drew Nealis In These Times is a production of Penn Arts & Sciences. Visit our series website to learn more and listen to the first season of In These Times. Visit our editorial magazine, Omnia, for more content from Penn Arts & Sciences faculty, students, and alumni. Follow Penn Arts & Sciences on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. 

Sarah Gordon and Mark Silk look at how the U.S. has historically regulated religious institutions as well as accounted for an individual’s religious liberty. Experts Sarah Barringer Gordon Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History Mark Silk Director, Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College Host Steven Barnes Host, Editor-in-Chief, Case in Point

Sarah Gordon and Mark Silk look at how the U.S. has historically regulated religious institutions as well as accounted for an individual’s religious liberty. Experts Sarah Barringer Gordon Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History Mark Silk Director, Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College Host Steven Barnes Host, Editor-in-Chief, Case in Point