Podcasts: race
Frank Deale: A Brief History of Affirmative Action and CUNY
At the Professional Staff Congress's CUNY and Race Forum, attorney and professor Frank Deale provides historical context for issues surrounding affirmative action and the City University of New York.
Deborah Willis: Is There Anything More to See?
Professor, curator, photographer Deborah Willis discusses the pictorial record and a "new memory of photography."
Mary Niall Mitchell: Is There Anything More to See?
Historian Mary Niall Mitchell uses less known and difficult to understand photographs to discuss the use of photography as propaganda during the Civil War.
Anthony Lee: Is There Anything More to See?
Art historian, curator, and photographer Anthony Lee provocatively examines Civil War era photography by way of one case study.
Martha A. Sandweiss: Is There Anything More to See?
Historian Martha Sandweiss challenges assumptions and uses of Civil War photographs as historical documents.
Immigrants of the Irish Famine (1845-1855)
Historian Carol Groneman, whose dissertation grounds the scholarship of ASHP's documentary "The Five Points: New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850s," looks at what happened when immigrants of the Irish famine came to the United States (1845-1855)
Free black craftsman, Thomas Day
In the world of antiques, art fairs, and auctions, January marks Americana month. One of the more notable American craftsmen was furniture maker Thomas Day, a free black who lived in North Carolina during the Civil War-era.
Free Blacks in the South: The Life of Thomas Day
In this Now and Then podcast, Donna Thompson Ray (ASHP) interviews Peter H. Wood (Duke University, professor emeritus) about the life of Thomas Day, a free black cabinetmaker in the Antebellum South.
150 Years Ago This Month
Let the commemorations of the Civil War sesquicentennial begin! On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first of what would eventually become 11 states to secede from the United States of America. Its secession declaration invoked the Declaration of Independence...
Copyright 2012 American Social History Productions, Inc. · SITEMAP · CONTACT · IMAGE CREDITS
· PRIVACY POLICY
