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Historians & Their Histories is a podcast by the Massachusetts Historical Society. In this series, we are introducing you to the historians who write the histories.
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The Home Front with Lauren Duval (opens the original)
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On this special episode of Historians & Their Histories , guest host Megan Kate Nelson sits down with Lauren Duval, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. They discuss Prof. Duval's new book The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence , published in December 2025. They talk about what daily life was like inside American households under British military occupation and how the intimate experience of war shaped ordin
Salt, Sea, and Sustainability: The Hidden History of Cod with Morgan Hardy (opens the original)
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In this episode of Historians & Their Histories , we speak with Morgan Hardy. He discusses his dissertation, "Changes in the Sea: Early American Innovations in Sustainability," which examines whether eighteenth-century cod fisheries were sustainable and what early conservation practices New Englanders developed to protect declining fish populations. At the MHS, he has been uncovering the everyday realities of fishermen navigating a devastated fishery. We also learn about the fascinating anatomy
The Sword and the Tomahawk: Rethinking the Massachusetts Seal with Lydia Burleson (opens the original)
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In this episode of Historians & Their Histories , we speak with Lydia Burleson. She discusses her research into the Massachusetts state seal, tracing how its Indigenous imagery has persisted and shifted since the colony's 1629 charter. Drawing upon variety of archival records, Lydia focuses on the seal's brief disappearance during the Revolutionary period, when it was replaced from 1775 to 1780 by an "English American" design bearing a sword, before an Indigenous design returned as the war conti
Portraits in Pastel: Art and Empire in Early America with Megan Baker (opens the original)
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In this episode of Historians & Their Histories , we speak with Megan Baker, a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware. Megan discusses her dissertation, "Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814," which traces how the fragile and fashionable medium of pastel came to represent both people and ideas in the years surrounding the American Revolution. She explores how artists sourced their materials through Atlantic trade networks, how pastel po
Unmarried Women in the Anglo-Atlantic World with Chloe Kauffman (opens the original)
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In this episode of Historians & Their Histories , Chloe Kauffman discusses her dissertation research on how young, unmarried women in the Anglo-Atlantic world acquired and shared knowledge about sexuality between 1690 and 1820, with a particular focus on women-to-women relationships and mentorship. Chloe examines the everyday, often overlooked ways this knowledge circulated from family letters and diaries to the surprising presence of suggestive phrases tucked into a 12-year-old's penmanship exe
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