The 10 Best Professor Buzzkill History Podcast Episodes
1) Lawyers in Japanese-American Concentration Camps during World War II
The US government placed white lawyers at Japanese-American concentration camps during World War II. These lawyers were given contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners, and ke...Show More
2) Malcolm Browne and the Self Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức
Ray Boomhower joins us to discuss how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức's horrific self-immolation o...Show More
3) #229 - Irish Slaves Myth
The Irish slaves myth claims that Irish people were enslaved by the British and sent to the Americas (especially the Caribbean) to work on plantations. This myth primarily appears in emails and Facebo...Show More
4) The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
Professor Adam Domby explains why the Lost Cause of the Confederacy is full of fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy. And he analyzes how it is expressed in statuary, memory, and commemoration in th...Show More
5) Green Book Sites: Local History and Architecture
We've already learned about the importance of "The Negro Motorist Green Book" from our previous show. Here, historians Catherine Zipf and Susan Hellman discuss their project on the architecture of the...Show More
6) Traveling While Black: The Green Book Guides to African-American Motoring - Encore!
20th-century automobile travel was supposed to represent freedom, but what else did it represent? Professor Cotten Seiler from Dickinson College joins us to discuss the difficulties and hazards of tra...Show More
7) Lies of the Land: Rural America in History and Myth
Professor Steven Conn shows us that rural America—so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind—has actually been at the center of modern American history, shaped by the same f...Show More
8) Juneteenth and the “End of Slavery in the US”: What’s in a Date?
"Juneteenth" (June 19th) is now widely regarded as marking the end of slavery in the United States. Professor Buzzkill examines the many dates related to the abolition of human enslavement in the US. ...Show More
9) Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression
Was the north the promised land for southern African-Americans during the Depression, or was it more complicated than that? Dr. Melissa Ford tells us how African American working-class women, many of ...Show More
10) J. Marion Sims and Medical Experimentation on Enslaved Women
Advanced Placement student researchers from Caddo Parish Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana explain their research into the career of J. Marion Sims. His medical experiments on enslaved women...Show More