Dig: A History Podcast

208 Episodes

1. The Fall of Rome: Debating Causality and the Collapse of the Western Empire

   Published: 5/15/2023
2. For King, Country, and… Opium?: Thinking About Causality, Empire, and Historiography in the First Opium War, 1839-42

   Published: 5/8/2023
3. For F*ck’s Sake: A History of English-Language Swearing

   Published: 3/26/2023
4. The Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger

   Published: 3/20/2023
5. Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi

   Published: 3/13/2023
6. The Women’s War of 1929: Igbo and Ibibio Resistance to British Colonialism

   Published: 3/6/2023
7. Race and Nation in Latin America: Whitening, Browning, and the Failures of Mestizaje

   Published: 12/5/2022
8. Nina Otero-Warren: Suffrage and Strategy in New Mexico

   Published: 11/21/2022
9. Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th- and 19th- Century America

   Published: 11/14/2022
10. A Spot of Tea: Empire, Commodities, and the Opportunities in Britain’s Tea Trade

    Published: 11/7/2022
11. Omm Sety and Bridey Murphy: A History of Reincarnation and Past Lives in Britain and America

    Published: 9/26/2022
12. Anna Howard Shaw: Doctor, Reverend, Suffragist Leader

    Published: 9/19/2022
13. The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening

    Published: 9/13/2022
14. Spectacle and Spiritualism in the Lives of Maggie and Kate Fox

    Published: 9/5/2022
15. Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement

    Published: 8/1/2022
16. Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality

    Published: 7/25/2022
17. Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic

    Published: 7/11/2022
18. Cheesecloth, Spiritualism, and State Secrets: Helen Duncan’s Famous Witchcraft Trial

    Published: 7/4/2022
19. Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan

    Published: 6/27/2022
20. One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science

    Published: 5/23/2022