HeyJaredCambridge American History Seminar Podcast
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.
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Prof. Nemata Blyden, "The Erskine Family of Tennessee and Liberia: Tracing a Global Black Family History" (opens the original)
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"Long before…American and European historians were interrogating the archives, as African historians, we were doing that. And we were using oral history and oral tradition. I think it's come in handy for me now, for a project like this." We’re joined in this episode by Nemata Blyden (Armstead Professor of Nineteenth-Century African American History, University of Virginia). Blyden’s research project in development is interested in telling the history of various places in the Atlantic world throu
Prof. Christa Dierksheide & Prof. Nick Guyatt, ‘Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery’ (Harvard University Press, 2026) (opens the original)
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“The wolf is a metaphor for race war, and we mean race war on a genocidal scale.” We release this episode at a historic moment. This Saturday, 4 July 2026, marks the semiquincentennial of America's founding. Few historians are better placed, with their complementary research expertise, to reassess the legacy of what is commemorated each year—and especially this year—as Independence Day. Our guests are Professor Christa Dierksheide (Brockman Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of H
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