Dig: A History Podcast
1) Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society
Women Series. Episode #3 of 4. Dale Spender, a feminist literary scholar, wrote in 1980: “It is not surprising to find that there are no terms for man talk that are equivalent to chatter, natter, pra...Show More
2) Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American Enslavement
Women Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1861, one of the most powerful slave narratives in American history was published under the title, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Jacobs ...Show More
3) Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Women's History, Episode #1 of 4. In 1987, the last reported instance of sati threw India into a maelstrom of furious debate and conflict following the ritual suicide of Roop Kanwar after her young hu...Show More
4) The Pansy Craze
Love in the Lav series. Episode #4 of 4. The late 1920s birthed what would become a defining cultural phenomenon—the "pansy craze"—when LGBTQ+ culture burst into mainstream American entertainment from...Show More
5) Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern Lesbian
Love in the Lav Series. Episode #4 of 4. Today, we’re telling the story of Anne Lister’s life in her own words with a special emphasis on her search for a “great love.” But along the way, we’ll also ...Show More
6) Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender
Averill's Book, Love in the Lav Series, Episode #2 of 4. In 1746, Charles Hamilton, a doctor, married Mary Price in Wells, England. Hamilton was a traveling doctor, selling patent medicines and dubio...Show More
7) Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen
Love in the Lav Series, Episode # 1 of 4. Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, colloquially known as the Ladies of Llangollen, lived together in North Wales for 51 years in a cottage that they renovated...Show More
8) The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race
Disability Series, #4 of 4. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an ethically problematic, to say the least, medical research project conducted in Alabama. Officially titled “The Effects of Untreated Syphi...Show More
9) Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events
Disability Series. Episode #3 of 4. Since the advent of epidemiology (the study of infectious disease, its spread and prevention), humanists and scientists have been able to study mass-disabling event...Show More
10) The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans
Disability Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1973, Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, a bill intended to increasing hiring, extend rehabilitation services and increase assistance programs for Amer...Show More