Boston Athenæum Podcast
1) Author Talk | BREAKING BIAS: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From by Anu Gupta
For readers of Caste, Sapiens, and The Dawn of Everything, join us for a page-turning deep-dive into how bias is learned—plus a strikingly original and highly effective set of tools to un-learn it. Dr...Show More
Author Talk | BREAKING BIAS: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From by Anu Gupta
55:34 | Nov 21st, 2024
2) Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"
In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news b...Show More
3) Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"
They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan’s words that helpe...Show More
4) Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scho...Show More
Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
55:14 | Nov 22nd, 2021
5) Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend to mean one form: the version captured in shared celebrations like the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance. But as Ben Railton argues, that c...Show More
Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
56:24 | Jul 9th, 2021
6) Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For ...Show More
7) Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not wi...Show More
Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
57:47 | Jun 18th, 2021
8) Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"
When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were un...Show More
9) Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new qu...Show More
10) Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There was more to these soldiers than their red uniforms, but the individuals who for...Show More
Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
1:06:40 | May 21st, 2021