Podcasts about history department chair

In this first episode of the new year, I had the opportunity and pleasure to talk to Howard Eissenstat who currently is is an Laurentian Associate Professor of Middle East history and History Department Chair at St. Lawrence University and non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. With Howard we first looked at the legacy of President Carter in the Middle East and from there we unpacked the long and complex relations between Israel and Turkey. Lastly, as we are approaching the transition from the Biden to the Trump administrations we tried to understand what this means for Turkey.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/jerusalemunplugged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ken welcomes back historian and author Michael Jimenez, the History Department Chair at Vanguard University in Southern California. He has published several articles focussing on the iconic United Farm Workers Union organizer from the Civil Rights era in the 1960s and 70s. He believes that Cesar Chavez should be considered the Latinex Martin Luther King. Like King, Chavez's life and work are rooted in his deep and abiding Christian faith. Jimenez joins with his friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Chao Romero (UCLA professor and former guest on the podcast) in advancing the story of Christians who have influenced social change - confronting injustice and opening the door for equal access, better working conditions, increased wages, and advancing human dignity. Ken and Mike discuss the influences on Chavez's life including MLK, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, and Robert F. Kennedy. When Chavez's fast almost ended his life, RFK made a personal visit as he campaigned for President in the 1968 election. They shared communion. It ended Cesar's fast, but just one month later, an assassin took Kennedy's life the very night he celebrated his California victory. Michael shares his take on the Black Panther Party and the more recent Black Lives Matter movement. Michael is a thoughtful scholar and committed Christian. SHOW NOTESBecome a Patron | Ken's Substack PageSupport the Show.

In Episode 27 of the CSUSB Advising Podcast, Matt Markin chats with History Department Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jones! What is the History major? What career opportunities are there? What resources does History have? Find out in this episode!For more information on the Economics major, visit the CSUSB History Department.Subscribe to the CSUSB Advising Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google and more!Follow us on social media:Instagram & Tik Tok - @csusbadvisingFacebook - CSUSB Advising and Academic ServicesTwitter - @csusb_advising Transcription of episode

This is Episode 2-3 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview Dr. Joe Trotter is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon's Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019).Review us and give us five stars on Apple Podcasts!Support this podcast and the work of our sponsoring organization: battleofhomestead.orgessentialworkpodcast.orgShare a comment, ask a question:(412) 326-9435comments@essentialworkpodcast.orgAudio Engineering support and consulting provided by Angela Baughman: thatsoundgirl.comLogo by Brittany Sheets: bsheetscreative.comOriginal Music Composed and Recorded by Jason Kendall: jasonkendallproductions.comThe Battle of Homestead Foundation Organized to preserve, interpret, & promote a people's history focused on the 1892 labor conflict.SquadCast Record studio-quality content from anywhere. Create engaging audio + video with an intuitive platforBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://battleofhomestead.org/bhf/donations/)

In this week's episode, we meet with our special guest—a high school History teacher and History Department Chair at New Visions Advanced Math and Science II in the Bronx—Ruben Martinez. Ruben shares his focus on empathy and learning who's in his class to help engage students in learning as they build new routines in the face-to-face classroom. Together, Ruben and the team share the surprises and insights they have encountered as the new school year begins, and they remind us that we all went through it this year. We all need a hug. That hug might look different for everyone. It might be a high-five. It might be about the Knicks… But we must remember to take a moment to learn to interact again. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Lezlie Knox and Donald Leech (University of Virginia at Wise) discuss his recent co-authored book, Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas (McFarland, 2021). As two medievalists, they focus on similarities between the Black Death and our current pandemic, as well as why conspiracy theories are so appealing and how we can counter them. Leech also reflects on research as a collaborative process, sharing what he learned from working with scholars who come from policy and education fields, medicine and social justice, along with folklore and history. Appearing in this episode: Dr. Lezlie Knox - Associate Professor of History and History Department Chair, Marquette University. Dr. Donald Leech - Associate Professor of History, the University of Virginia at Wise.

What was the seminal moment in the votes for women movement? Join Mary and special guest Dr. Emily Krichbaum, History Department Chair at the Columbus School for Girls and founder of Remember The Ladies, as they delve into women’s progression of rights, ultimately leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment. What many roles did women have in advancing their right to vote? What methods of protest made Alice Paul different from her contemporaries?

Please join us for a History Book Club virtual event from the University of Minnesota's Department of History, the Ramsey County Historical Society, the University of Minnesota's African American and African Studies Department and the Labor and Working History Association. This event features a discussion of "Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America" by Joe Trotter. Joe Trotter (PhD ‘80), Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, will discuss his book with moderator William Jones, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. About the book: Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America, University of California Press (January 2019) From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing new history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr. refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class's vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces black workers' complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America's economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today. About the author: Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy, President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is currently working on a study of African American urban life since the Atlantic slave trade. About the moderator William P. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. He currently serves as the director of graduate studies for the History Department. An expert on race and labor in the twentieth-century United States, he is author of two award-winning books, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). Jones has been a guest on the PBS Newshour, NPR's “The Takeaway,” and Democracy Now! He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 2016, Dr. Jones taught at the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University.

Tuesday on Political Rewind, when President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States tomorrow, he becomes the principal player in a transition marked by a surging pandemic, spiraling joblessness and aggrieved ranks of voters who refuse to believe he was legitimately elected. But previous American presidents have, too, faced daunting circumstances as they took the oath of office, and gone on to build brighter futures for the country. Today, our panel looked at some of the toughest transitions in American history and how new leadership wrestled with great challenges. Panelists: Dr. Michelle Brattain — Professor of History, Georgia State University Dr. Joe Crespino — Professor of History, History Department Chair, Emory University Tamar Hallerman — Senior Reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dr. Fredrick Knight — Professor of History, Morehouse College

“If you were a podcast host and could have somebody [from history] on to talk to, is there an individual who sticks out?” // Matt Baum ‘93 is the History Department Chair at Gilman School and teaches two courses: 10th grade “Making of Modern Europe” and a 12th grade elective, “U.S. Since 1960.” He coaches basketball and golf, and loves “end[ing] every day on a court or a field.” // In Episode #24 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Matt discuss debate-oriented discussions, activity variation in the classroom, memorable quotes from Dan Christian, tri-school coordination, the influence of Jerry Thornberry, living through history, Netflix-browsing paralysis, "Bobby Kennedy for President," JFK's assassination and whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Joe Rogan's open mind, Alexander Hamilton's opinion of the Broadway musical, "John Adams" on HBO, the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson, the absurdities of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," LBJ's commitment to civil rights, Bryan Cranston in "All the Way," distrust of institutions today, the insanity of 2020, Modern Family, and Matt's book recommendation, "The Unwinding" by George Packer (2013). // Order "The Unwinding" by George Packer: https://www.amazon.com/Unwinding-Inner-History-New-America/dp/0374534608 // I hope you enjoyed the episode. Please subscribe and follow @pathtofollowpod on all platforms. // If you'd like to stay updated in a more personal way, sign up for the Path to Follow monthly newsletter here: https://pathtofollowpodcast.substack.com/embed // Big ups to Cesare Ciccanti for all of his hard work!

This week two of Marquette University's outstanding undergraduates, Brooke McArdle & Gretchen Zirgaitis, join Dr. Lezlie Knox to discuss their undergraduate research, the importance of female mentorship, and the impact of the pandemic on undergraduate researchers. Brooke McArdle - A Senior Majoring in Classical Languages & History. Gretchen Zirgaitis - A Junior studying Excercise Physiology in the Physical Therapy Program. Dr. Lezlie Knox - Associate Professor of History and History Department Chair. For more information on the podcast or the research being done at Marquette University, you can visit Marquette's COVID-19 research initiative here: https://www.marquette.edu/innovation/covid-19-research.php You can email the podcast at covidconvos@marquette.edu Music is "Phase 2" by Xylo Ziko https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase_2

This week's conversation focuses on research at Marquette University and how the COVID19 Pandemic has impacted researchers at both the student and faculty levels. The discussants also talk about the opportunities for collaboration; the current reality has presented. Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp - Professor of Chemistry and Marquette University's Vice President for Research and Innovation. Dr. Lezlie Knox - Associate Professor of History and History Department Chair. For more information on the podcast or the research being done at Marquette University, you can visit Marquette's COVID-19 research initiative here: https://www.marquette.edu/innovation/covid-19-research.php You can email the podcast at covidconvos@marquette.edu Music is "Phase 2" by Xylo Ziko https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase_2

Dr. Sharlene Sinegal Decuir is an Associate Professor and History Department Chair at Xavier Univerity of Louisiana (XULA), the nation's only historically black and catholic university. Dr. Sinegal Decuir opens up and shares her personal experiences with "The Network," detailing how she found herself, the challenges she faced on her way to tenure and what America must do to stop repeating its mistakes. Instagram: @sharlenesinegal Twitter: @drsdecuir Website: www.sinegal-decuir.com or xula.com (Dr. Sinegal Decuir can be found under History Dept.) Current reading/Recommended Reads: How to be an Antiracist, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History or Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans, Harriet A. Washington The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, Danielle McGuire Gender & Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of Jim Crow in North Carolina, Glenda Gilmore White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin Diangelo Slavery by Another Name: The Race Enslavement of Black America from the Civil War to WWII, Douglas Blackmon Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, Tom Burrell Currently listening/Recommended Music: Country: Kane Brown, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs Old School/90s R&B: Tevin Campbell, Monica, XScape, Mary J. Blige etc New School: Megan the Stallion, Cardi B Recommended Podcasts: The Network with Michael Prejean (!shameless plug!) Finally, "You Didn't Ask," but..."Save your money & pay your bills on time. Speak and live your own truth. Be the bearer of your own bones. We are allowed to make mistakes, learn from them." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mike493/message

Forget the luxuries of early 21st century travel, early 19th century tourists who visited wartime sites usually dealt with bad roads and shoddy lodgings. Instead of the romantic visions of history depicted in paintings and writings, they found sites littered with discarded armaments and bodies of the fallen. Veterans greeted these tourists with reminiscences of their wartime memories.  Historian Thomas Chambers shares how battlefield tourism enabled wealthy educated ancestral travelers to make the connection between place and memory. Instead of going to Europe they took the weeks long American tour to see where history was made.  They wanted the real experience of people and places to form their sense of the past.  His book, Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early Republic (Cornell 2012, 2018) is a fascinating study of the history of tourism. Related Episodes:Episode 49: Women Patriots with Mary TedescoEpisode 46: Benson Lossing, Revolutionary TravelerLinks:Sign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:Thomas A. Chambers joined Canisius College as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences in 2019. He currently serves on the Niagara Frontier State Park, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Commission, the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Board of Directors, and helped lead statewide public history projects related to the War of 1812 Bicentennial and Governor Andrew Cuomo's Path Through History Task Force. In 2016 Chambers was elected to the New York Academy of History. At Niagara University he earned tenure and promotion to Professor in the History Department, and served for periods as NU's Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, History Department Chair, Graduate Studies Strategic Enrollment Director, Director of the Master's program in Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director of the Liberal Arts major. He took his Ph.D. and M.A. at the College of William and Mary, and earned his B.A. at Middlebury College. He is The recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture grants.  About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

How does our response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to our response 100 years ago, when what is commonly known as the “Spanish Flu” swept through America? Historian Nancy Bristow helps Annie understand the lessons American society learned from the 1918 influenza epidemic, and what we haven’t yet gotten right.  Nancy Bristow is the History Department Chair at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches twentieth-century American history with an emphasis on race, gender, and social change. She is the author of ‘American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic’.  Twitter: @univpugetsound @NancyKBristow Further reading:  American Pandemic on Bookshop.org, an independent site that’s raising money for independent bookstores that are closed during the pandemic: https://bookshop.org/books/american-pandemic-the-lost-worlds-of-the-1918-influenza-epidemic/9780190238551 Or on IndieBound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780190238551 Cities that went all in on social distancing in 1918 emerged stronger for it: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/coronavirus-cities-social-distancing-better-employment.html Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this time of Distance Learning, Maclay has been able to progress exceptionally well and keep our students on track. We do, however, realize there are thousands of students in the Big Bend Area unable to receive support or information regarding their upcoming Advanced Placement exams. We hope sharing some insights on what our faculty know about the interworkings of the exams and how to prepare best for them will help students across the region be better prepared as they sit for the exams they have prepared for. We will never be able to reproduce the education our AP students receive, but we do how these insights are beneficial to all who listen and put them into practice. The Video of this Public Service Release can be found at www.maclay.org/ap as well as our Distance Learning page at www.maclay.org/dl The following writeup accompanies the video. Maclay School is fortunate to have six faculty members who are AP exam readers (graders) and a robust AP program in the Upper School. With the recent closings of schools and College Board changing the format of the AP exams, our Upper School experts teamed up to present a 15-minute webinar offering an overview of the exam format, tips, and suggestions to prepare for the upcoming tests. Join Charles Beamer, Director of Upper School, Dr. Paul Berk, AP Exam Reader, and History Department Chair, Lee Norment, AP English Teacher, and English Department Chair, Kristin Kline, AP Science Teacher, and Les Lundberg, Maclay AP Coordinator for an informative session to help prepare students for what's ahead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maclay/message

In this episode, Simon Cordery, History Department Chair at Iowa State University, joins the ROI team to discuss Albert Benton Pullman, who is best known for his historic involvement in the luxury train car industry.

James Madison survived longer than any other member of the most remarkable generation of political leaders in American history. Born in the middle of the eighteenth century as a subject of King George II, the Father of the United States Constitution lived until 1836, when he died a citizen of Andrew Jackson's republic. For over forty years he played a pivotal role in the creation and defense of a new political order. He lived long enough to see even that Revolutionary world transformed, and the system of government he had nurtured threatened by the disruptive forces of a new era that would ultimately lead to civil war. In recounting the experience of Madison and several of his legatees who witnessed the violent test of whether his republic could endure, McCoy dramatizes the actual working out in human lives of critical cultural and political issues. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison & The Republican Legacy was the winner of two major awards: the Dunning Prize by the American Historical Association and the New England Historical Association Book Prize.Dr. Drew R. McCoy received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1971, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1973 and 1976, respectively. He has been at Clark since 1990. A specialist in American political and intellectual history, Professor McCoy teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in early American history, with emphasis on the period from the Revolution through the Civil War. Before coming to Clark he taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University. His current project, which is biographical, focusing on the early life of Abraham Lincoln in relation to the transformative developments of the early nineteenth century. He is the author of The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America and The Last of the Fathers: James Madison & The Republican Legacy.-Dr. Aaron N. Coleman is Associate Professor of History and the History Department Chair at the University of the Cumberlands. He is interested in Anglo-American constitutional and ideological development of the 17th and 18th Centuries, especially the era of the American Founding. Dr. Coleman also specializes in contemporary leadership theory and application. He has published two books both dealing with the conception and political debates over federalism. He is currently working on two projects, one a short biography of Thomas Burke and another on the competing languages of Nationalism and State Sovereignty in 18th and 19th Century United States. Dr. Coleman is a die-hard Elvis fan and spends his free time listening to Elvis or reading Lord of the Rings. He is the author of The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 and the co-editor of Debating Federalism: From the Founding to Today with Christopher S. Leskiw. You can follow him on Twitter, @Big_Liberty.---Support for the Age of Jackson Podcast was provided by Isabelle Laskari, Jared Riddick, John Muller, Julianne Johnson, Laura Lochner, Mark Etherton, Marshall Steinbaum, Martha S. Jones, Michael Gorodiloff, Mitchell Oxford, Richard D. Brown, Rod, Rosa, Stephen Campbell, and Victoria Johnson, as well as Andrew Jackson's Hermitage​ in Nashville, TN.

When Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made was published in 1974, the study of American slavery would change forever. Written by Eugene D. Genovese, an often controversial figure, the book would become as controversial as its author. Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, Genovese investigates the ways that slaves forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion. Not merely passive victims, the slaves in this account actively engaged with the paternalism of slaveholding culture in ways that supported their self-respect and aspirations for freedom, even as that engagement limited the prospects for truly revolutionary politics among the enslaved. spRoll, Jordan, Roll covers a vast range of subjects, from slave weddings and funerals, to the language, food, clothing, and labor of slaves, and places particular emphasis on religion as both a major battleground for psychological control and a paradoxical source of spiritual strength. Winning the 1975 Bancroft Prize, Roll, Jordan, Roll has since become an indispensable but contentious text for studying American slavery.Talking with me about Roll, Jordan, Roll and its complex legacy is Joshua D. Rothman.Joshua Rothman is the History Department Chair at the University of Alabama and is the Co-Director of Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and is the author of Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson and Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861. He is currently at work on a book about the managing partners of Franklin and Armfield, the most significant domestic slave trading firm in American history.

You may know Toni Morrison's famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret's attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner's murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner's story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner's agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may know Toni Morrison's famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret's attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner's murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner's story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner's agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

You may know Toni Morrison’s famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret’s attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner’s story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner’s agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may know Toni Morrison’s famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret’s attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner’s story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner’s agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may know Toni Morrison’s famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret’s attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner’s story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner’s agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may know Toni Morrison’s famed novel Beloved, but do you know much about the true story of the woman depicted in that story? You will know about the real story and more, by reading her biography called Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016) authored by Howard University Professor of History and Department Chair Nikki Taylor. Driven Toward Madness tells the story of how fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family escaped to free Ohio in late January 1856, only to be captured in a cabin outside of Cincinnati. What happened as the Garner family were being apprehended is the climax of the story; Taylor shows what drove Margaret’s attempt to kill all four of her children, while only successfully doing so by way of decapitating her two year-old daughter Mary. Based in history, Taylor uses various theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, pain studies, black feminist theory, and literary criticism to broaden our understandings of the why surrounding Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. Taylor broadens popular understandings of black womanhood, resistance, and what are acceptable forms of gendered violence. In doing so, Taylor displays the ways antagonistic groups like abolitionists and pro-slavery activists both used Garner’s story for their own causes without necessarily recognizing Garner’s agency and humanity. Ultimately, Taylor expresses how far a person could go to protect their child from bondage, even if that meant taking their life so they reached freedom elsewhere. Author Nikki M. Taylor is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Howard University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Adam McNeil is a graduating M.A. in History student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Undergraduate History degree at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael J. Lansing. Augsburg College,Associate Professor, History Department Chair discusses his research on the North American West, political history, environmental history, and gender history. His current project is The Cradle of Carbohydrates: Minneapolis and the Making of the World’s Food, an environmental and urban history of the city’s central role in the creation and propagation of carbohydrate-rich processed and packaged foods.His books include Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and the co-authored The American West: A Concise History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Dr. T.H. Breen received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968 and is currently the Director of the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and History Department Chair at Northwestern University. He discusses his book "George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation." Dr. Breen spoke at a Ford Evening Book Talk at the Washington Library on January 20, 2016. 

Dr. T.H. Breen received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968 and is currently the Director of the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and History Department Chair at Northwestern University. He discusses his book "George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation." Dr. Breen spoke at a Ford Evening Book Talk at the Washington Library on January 20, 2016. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/message

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from San Juan Water & Beach Club Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Joining Peter Greenberg on the show will be Nuria Sebazco, TV Reporter for Telemundo Puerto Rico, with a front line report on the Zika virus and its impact on tourism. Professor Luis Agrait, History Department Chair at The University Puerto Rico, stops by to talk about diversity in Puerto Rico and the blending of cultures, as well as the food that’s come from that. Andy Rivera, Founder of the Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawings Society, discusses the volunteer base of the program, and gives insight into the many special and little known tours the program offers. Chef Wilo Benet, Chef and Owner of Pikayo, a restaurant spanning 27 years, explains what distinguishes Puerto Rican cuisine from other flavors—detailing why flavorful doesn’t necessarily mean outrageously spicy. Finally, Celina Nogueras Cuevas, writer, cultural creator, and trend forecaster, talks about street art and the local scene of entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico. There’s all of this and much more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from San Juan Water & Beach Club Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Joining Peter Greenberg on the show will be Nuria Sebazco, TV Reporter for Telemundo Puerto Rico, with a front line report on the Zika virus and its impact on tourism. Professor Luis Agrait, History Department Chair at The University Puerto Rico, stops by to talk about diversity in Puerto Rico and the blending of cultures, as well as the food that’s come from that. Andy Rivera, Founder of the Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawings Society, discusses the volunteer base of the program, and gives insight into the many special and little known tours the program offers. Chef Wilo Benet, Chef and Owner of Pikayo, a restaurant spanning 27 years, explains what distinguishes Puerto Rican cuisine from other flavors—detailing why flavorful doesn’t necessarily mean outrageously spicy. Finally, Celina Nogueras Cuevas, writer, cultural creator, and trend forecaster, talks about street art and the local scene of entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico. There’s all of this and much more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from San Juan, Puerto Rico.