Hagley History Hangout Podcast
1) Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents with Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
In this episode we interview Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl about her new book Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945. From the publisher: “The first book to shed...Show More
2) Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States with Laura Browder
The United States drug tests its citizens more than any other country and ties the rights one enjoys, rights to keep one’s baby, to do one’s job, or to vote or move freely, to the results of a given d...Show More
3) Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry with Denise Sutton
Innovation plays a role in the beauty and fashion industry as it does in any line of business. New products, new techniques, and new markets animate the industry, and punctuate its history. In her la...Show More
4) An Official History of Official Corporate Histories with Lee McGuigan
Businesses tell stories about themselves, in their advertising, in their marketing, and in their corporate biographies. Official or authorized histories of corporations form a distinctive thread in th...Show More
5) For an 'Orderly' Globalization: Managed Liberalization in US Labor, 1945-1990 with Melanie Sheehan
American labor unions struggled to adjust to the changing dynamics of the world economy during the mid-to-late twentieth century. Charting this complex process is Dr. Melanie Sheehan, assistant profes...Show More
6) The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 with Joël Praz
Building international cooperation is a slow, painstaking process, one made more difficult when some people don’t see the need for it. To businesses, however, international cooperation is positively n...Show More
7) Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers with David Suisman
Our previously scheduled episode featuring Alessandra La Rocca Link has been postponed. In lieu of which, we present this recording made during the Hagley Author Talk featuring David Suisman hosted on...Show More
8) Afro-Andean Sailors and Shipbuilders in Spanish America and the Black Pacific with Leo Garofalo
While popular memory may have forgotten them, about half of the sailors, soldiers, missionaries, tradesmen, and colonists that made up the Spanish Empire were black, people who were part of the Africa...Show More
9) A Stretch of the Imagination: Synthetic Fabrics and the Cold War with Monica Geraffo
During the Cold War, rival superpowers the USA and the USSR vied with one another for world dominion in many arenas: military, diplomatic, and even haute coture. In the latter connection, French desig...Show More
10) Plebian Consumers: Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia with Ana Maria Otero-Cleves
In this interview with Roger Horowitz, Ana Maria Otero-Cleves discusses the place of important objects in her book Plebian Consumers, especially textiles, machetes, and patent medicine. Otero-Cleves a...Show More