Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast
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Where big ideas in history meet open conversation. Each episode invites listeners into the Seminar experience, where, every Monday afternoon during term, visiting scholars and graduate students exchange ideas about new lines of historical inquiry shaping the future of the field. We talk about presenters' current research and paper, their broader academic interests and the significance of their research in the current moment.
If you have any feedback, suggestions or questions, please contact our producer via email at ds2125@cantab.ac.uk. Thanks for listening!
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Dr. Brenna Greer, "African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honour"
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Dr. Kaeten Mistry, "Exposure: How State Secret Disclosures Helped Construct and Undermine the Cold War Consensus"
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Dr. Kaisha Esty, ““Live as Becomes a Free Christian Woman”: Freedwomen and State-Sanctioned Reform in the Era of Emancipation.”
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Dr. Lydia Walker, “We Don’t Call Them Wars Anymore: International Intervention and the United Nations.”
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, 'Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America'
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Dr. Tara Bynum, ‘Obour Tanner Makes an Archive: Or, How to Remember Your Famous (and Deceased) 18th-Century Friend, Phillis Wheatley’
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Dr. Mia Bay: Her career and vision as the new Paul Mellon Professor
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Prof. Axel Schäfer, 'The “Tempest Tost” and the “People of Plenty”: Migration and the Politics of Consumption in the U.S. Since the 1880s'
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Prof. Molly Warsh, 'Servants of the Seasons'
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Prof. Kimberly Welch, "Eulalie Mandeville’s Money: A Free Black Woman and Her Legacy in Antebellum New Orleans"
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May 25, 2025 |
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Prof. Elizabeth N. Ellis, ‘The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South’
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May 02, 2025 |
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Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S"
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Dr. Shane Hamilton, "The Persistence of Glyphosate: Monsanto’s Strategic Maintenance of Roundup, the World’s Most Enduring Herbicide Technology"
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Dr. Tom Smith, "Word Across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories"
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Prof. Gary Gerstle - A Career in Reflection
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Dr. Lila Chambers, "Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1580-1737"
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Prof. Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History"
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Prof. Daniel Widener, "The Dream of a Common Language: Afterlives of U.S. Thirdworldism"
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Prof. Erika Lee, "Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America"
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Arianne Sedef Urus, "Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries"
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Prof. Manfred Berg, "The Right to Bear Arms: Guns, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement"
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May 29, 2024 |
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Erik Mathisen, "The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party"
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Elizabeth R. Varon, "White Supremacy in American Politics: An Origins Story"
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Dr. Noam Maggor - "Escaping the Periphery: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy"
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Prof. Jefferson Cowie - "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power"
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Prof. Andrew Preston - A Bridge in Chicago: The New Deal and National Security
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Prof. Stephanie Lewthwaite - "Relational Memories: Latinx Art in New York City Since the 1970s"
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Dr. Joanna Cohen, "Hall’s Sympathies: Loss, Law, and the Limits of Feeling in Nineteenth Century America"
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Dr. Lewis Defrates, "Neutrality by Absence: The Selective Repatriation of Americans at the Beginning of the First World War"
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Prof. Nick Guyatt, Writing American History in Uncertain Times
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Prof. Richard J. M. Blackett, "Looking For Samuel Ringgold Ward"
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Dr. Grace Mallon, "Federalism for Beginners: Intergovernmental Relations and Interdependent Sovereignty after 1789"
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Prof. Andrew Preston, The Iraq War: 20 Years On
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May 31, 2023 |
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Prof. Gregory Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War in the Modern Era"
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May 24, 2023 |
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Dr. Meg Jacobs, "The New Deal's AAA Reconsidered: State-Building from the Bottom Up"
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Prof. Emily West, "Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in the Antebellum South"
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Prof. Sophie White, "His Master's Grace": Extra-Judicial Violence in Atlantic Slave Societies"
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Dr. Robert Lee, "Indigenous Land and Sovereign Wealth in America: The Case of the Connecticut School Fund"
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Dr. Emily Brady, "I Didn't Know She Took Pictures": African American Women Photographers in the Long Civil Rights Movement"
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Prof. Bruce J. Schulman, "From the 'Smoke Filled Room' to the 'Singing Teapot': Women Voters and the Transformation of American Politics, 1924-1928"
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Dr. Caitlin Harvey, "Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalization, 1840-1910"
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Dr. Erin Trahey, "Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761" - 2/12/22
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Prof. Fredrik Logevall, "JFK: The Road To Power" - 28/11/22
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Prof. Angus Burgin: "From the New Economy to Neoliberalism" - 21/11/22
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Mario Del Pero on 'In the Shadow of the Vatican', 17/2/20
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Emma Teitelman on 'Class and State in America’s Greater Reconstruction', 3/2/20
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Heather Ann Thompson Pitt Inaugural Lecture 27/1/2020
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Peter Mancall on ‘The Origins of the American Economy’, 20/1/2020
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Robert A. Schneider on 'The Rise and Fall of the “Resentment Paradigm” (ca 1935-1975)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Katherine Paugh Interview 12/11/19
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Sarah Pearsall Interview 29/10/19
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Heather Ann Thompson Interview 21/10/19
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Noam Maggor & Stefan Link Interview 14/10/19
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Brooke Blower Interview 20/5/19
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May 22, 2019 |
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Ari Kelman Interview 13/5/19
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May 15, 2019 |
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Michell Chresfield Interview 6/5/19
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May 07, 2019 |
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Beverly Gage Interview 29/4/19
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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David Blight Interview 11/3/19
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Susan Carruthers Interview 4/3/2019
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Kate Masur Interview 25/2/2019
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Andrew Hartman Interview 18/2/2019
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Karine Walther Interview 11/2/2019
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Barbara Savage Interview 4/2/2019
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Naomi Lamoreaux Interview 22/01/2019
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Jane Dinwoodie Interview 26/11/18
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Robert Lee Interview 19/11/18
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Sarah Knott Interview 12/11/18
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Corey Robin Interview 5/11/18
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Kate Carté Interview 29/10/18
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Tony Badger Interview 22/10/18
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Jennifer Luff Interview 15/10/18
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Alex Goodall Interview 8/10/18
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Oct 08, 2018 |