How a Buffalonian’s bravery fought and beat the laws persecuting gay men in New York.
Join Elizabeth and Sarah as they talk grave iconography, disease epidemics, the commodification of death, and ‘rural’ cemeteries.
In the Fall of 1980, serial killer Joseph Christopher set out on a racially motivated killing spree in Buffalo, NY. His horrendous acts inspired the city to rally together in the name of peace and to publicly condemn Christopher’s actions and Read more…
In The Bank War, Paul Kahan explores the struggle between Andrew Jackson and the federal banking system.
What do Michael Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt have to do with the debates about the North Carolina bathrooms bill?
What goes into making a border? Marissa and Katie look for the answer in the the creation of Afghanistan’s borders in the late nineteenth century. It’s a dramatic Victorian conflict that’s still relevant today.
Explore more of the Game of Thrones world with a discussion of Zoroastrianism and Melisandre’s Lord of Light.
Feed your GoT obsession with our discussion of King’s Landing, Constantinople, and some epic battles.
History meets Game of Thrones! Check out this podcast episode in which Averill, Tommy, and special guest Andy Smyser talk The Wall, Hadrian’s Wall, and life in border/barrier towns.
Averill and Dan take a look at Sir Roger Casement’s role in the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, and the legacy of the man – as humanitarian, nationalist, and homosexual.
Assistant Professor of History at St. Olaf College. Layout Editor at Nursing Clio. Writes about sex, gender, and policing in modern Ireland. "Solicitor Brown and His Boy" (2020) in Historical Reflections. Will tell you about maple creemees, just ask.
2021 ACLS Fellow. Author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North. Executive Editor at Nursing Clio. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
ACLS Fellow at Arizona State University, project lead of Journal of the Plague Year and independent information professional. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Has won lots of really cool grants and fellowships, 2015 article on wet-nursing ads in the Journal of Family History. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Writes about Progressive Era women and the formation of the welfare state in the US. Forthcoming book with University of Georgia Press. Award-winning article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Texas native who married her tattoo artist (not just for the free tattoos).
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