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Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th and 19th Century America

Today, we’re talking about the history of poor relief and child welfare in the United States. Transcript for: Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th and 19th century America Sarah: Recently, I was on a research trip in Albany, NY, sifting my way through hundreds of records men institutionalized at two Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 5 months4 months ago
The Second Great Awakening, 1839
Spiritualism

The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening

Elijah Pierson was the embodiment of early 19th century Christian masculinity. So how did he end up, just a few years later, shambling along the streets of New York City with a scruffy beard, long hair, and dirty fingernails, following a wild eyed prophet? And – perhaps more disturbing – Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 7 months5 months ago
Scene in Longfellow's play "Giles Corey of Salem Farms" showing Rev. Cotton Mather encountering Tituba in the woods, as Mather travels to Salem Village to investigate the witchcraft accusations.
Bad Women

Tituba, The “Black Witch” of Salem

Anyone who’s read or seen Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible likely remembers Tituba, the enslaved woman who sets off the 1692 witch panic in Salem, Massachusetts. In literature and history, she’s been depicted as both a menacing Barbadian voodoo queen and a Black feminist touchstone. Who was the real Tituba? Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year1 year ago
1951 advertisement of Aunt Jemima pancake mix with the text, "Wake up to American's Best Loved Pancakes." The advertisement also shows the Aunt Jemima character wearing a shawl and kerchief and a large stack of pancakes.
Student Episode

Aunt Jemima: American Racism on Your Grocery Shelf

Last summer on June 17, 2020, the Quaker Oats Company announced its decision to rename its Aunt Jemima pancake brand after 131 years. Public opinion since the announcement has been mixed. One camp believes that the change is long overdue. While another group believes there’s nothing wrong with the brand’s Read more…

By Carly Bagley, 1 year1 year ago
Voodoo altar in the French Quarter of New Orleans
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen and the Laveau Legend

Since her death in 1881 Marie Laveau has morphed from a respected and charitable neighbor, or a “she-devil” and mysterious Voodoo Queen (depending on whose talking), and into a saint of strong, Black, feminist womanhood. How do we separate popular history from fact? Today we are digging into the real Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year1 year ago
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Bodies

A History of Racial Passing in the United States

Late in 2020, a number of white academics were revealed to be passing as people of color, making the concept of racial passing a matter of national conversation. For these white folks, the benefits of being considered a person of color were based on a perception that minorities somehow have Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years1 year ago
John Trumbell, The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, 1776
Special Edition

American Exceptionalism at its Most Disturbing: “The 1776 Report”

Just two days before he left office, Donald Trump released a Report generated from the 1776 Commission, a presidential advisory committee he created in September 2020 to combat, in his words, the “wicked web of lies” in some versions of American history. The commission was sparked by the right-wing outrage Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 years ago
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Food

Slavery & Soul Food: African Crops and Enslaved Cooks in the History of Southern Cuisine

 In June 2020, Quaker Oats announced they were revamping their famous (infamous?) brand of breakfast products, Aunt Jemima. From the late 19th century to the late 1980s, Aunt Jemima products prominently featured the image of the Black mammy trope to sell the idea that all white families could have the Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
engraving of the Hamilton-Burr Duel
Violence

Honor, Manhood, Slavery: Political Violence from Alexander Hamilton to John Brown

Dueling seems crazy to us today. Two men take ten paces, turn to face each other, and stand still while they shoot to kill, all the while following strict rules. But while it’s easy to think of duels as simply evidence of a more violent age, dueling and other similar Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago
An engraving of Fortress Monroe
2020!

Slave, Contraband, Refugee: The Complicated Story of the End of Slavery in the United States

Just over one month after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, three enslaved black men got into a row boat and paddled across the James River from mainland Virginia to the Union-occupied Fortress Monroe. Whether they knew it or not, the three young men – named Frank Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years1 year ago

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