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Insanity on Trial
Join Marissa, Sarah and Averill as they talk about crime, mental illness, and the law.
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The Travels of Cabeza de Vaca
Join Averill and Sarah this week as they trace the journeys of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , an early Spanish explorer to the southern United States.
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ASGA: Utopianisms
Join Averill, Sarah, and Marissa as they discuss the utopian movements of the 19th century in the U.S.
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ASGA: Spiritualism in America
Join Katie and Sarah as they investigate the rise of Spiritualism in the second episode of our America’s Second Great Awakening series.
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America’s Second Great Awakening
Discover the Burned Over District in New York and its role in the Second Great Awakening with the History Buffs.
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New York v. Uplinger: Gay Rights at the Supreme Court
How a Buffalonian’s bravery fought and beat the laws persecuting gay men in New York.
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The Rural Cemetery Movement
Join Elizabeth and Sarah as they talk grave iconography, disease epidemics, the commodification of death, and ‘rural’ cemeteries.
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The Bank War: Interview with Paul Kahan
In The Bank War, Paul Kahan explores the struggle between Andrew Jackson and the federal banking system.
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Passing: Race, Disability, and Gender
What do Michael Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt have to do with the debates about the North Carolina bathrooms bill?
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Civil War “Contraband”
We think we know the story of the end of slavery in the United States: Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery with a stroke of his pen, and millions of enslaved men, women and children went forward happily into their new lives as freedpeople. But the reality wasn’t quite so sunny. Read more…