Episode 19: Soldaderas: Mexican Women and the U.S. – Mexico War
Melissa Trejo, (History, UTEP) examines the role of women as warriors in folklore, reality and historical memory. By focusing on the U.S. – Mexico Wa...
Pod-Textualizing the Past
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Pod-Textualizing the Past is a podcast that explores U.S. history from pre-colonization through the U.S. Civil War. Produced at the University of Texas at El Paso, Professor Susan Stanfield talks with experts about specific aspects of U.S. history and their cultural impact.
Episode 18: A Change of Dress: Women and 19th Century Reform
Courtney Cauthon, historian and period seamstress joins us today for a discussion of 19th century fashion and the dress reform movement. Cauthon expl...
Episode 17: Gender, Labor & the Lowell Mills
Dr. Bridget Marshall (English-University of Massachusetts-Lowell) gives us the scoop on the Lowell Mills and the female workforce that kept them runni...
Episode 16: New England Witches Before Salem
Dr. Bridget Marshall (English-University of Massachusetts-Lowell) discusses accusations of witchcraft and witchcraft trials in British North America, ...
Episode 15: Slavery in New England
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, (Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin) discusses slavery in New England in this podcast...
Episode 14: Alexander Hamilton: More than a Song and a Dance
Janalyn Moss (History Librarian at the University of Iowa) talks to us about the man, the musical and the world of Alexander Hamilton. By contextuali...
Episode 13: Cooking an American Identity
Rachel Snell (Ph.D. History, University of Maine) studies food and food writing as a way to understand the lived experience of early American women. ...
Episode 12: Female Soldiers in the American Revolution
Lindsay Reinpold (History-UTEP), a recent graduate of the MA program at UTEP and middle school history teacher discusses female soldiers in the Americ...
Episode 11: Charlotte Forten: Radical, Teenaged, Abolitionist
Dr. Kristen Hillaire Glasgow (Ph.D. History, U.C.L.A.) discusses Charlotte Forten, a young woman of color in the 1850s who is an anti-slavery activist...
Episode Ten: Sickness and Health in British North America
Dr. Angela Keysor (Allegheny College, History) examines illness and its treatment during the eighteenth Century in British North America, with a parti...