We have an image of puritans as cold, severe, hyper-strict and religious people, and while that’s not entirely false, it’s also not entirely true. From the very beginning, Early Americans were thinking about sex. The courts Read more…
What happens when Communist states want to control the reproductive functions of women's bodies?
How did communities like Springfield, the "buckle" of the Bible Belt, deal with the AIDS crisis?
Averill, Marissa, and Katie discuss the history of sugar cultivation in the Caribbean, and its relationship to empire and consumerism.
What was it about TB that started a fashion standard? Everything! #histmed #podcast
Read the full transcript. The Bracero Program began in 1942, and was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, which started the legalization and control of Mexican migrant workers along America’s southern border area. Read more…
Things have been pretty political around here lately, so we wanted to dig into something that’s just fascinating and, frankly, creepy: anti-vivisection, or the 19th century campaign to end scientific and medical experimentation on living animals. Read more…
Read the transcript. When we think of immigration we tend to think of people crossing over nation-state borders, from one country to another. These borders seem somehow solid in our collective mind, yet they normally Read more…
Join Averill, Katie, and Dan as they discuss American base acquisition.
Averill and Marissa discuss abortion and birth control in 20th century Japan and Germany.