Reverb Effect

University of Michigan Department of History

Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.

  1. Season 6, Episode 2: "When They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:" Reparations in Uganda

    12 FEB

    Season 6, Episode 2: "When They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:" Reparations in Uganda

    In this episode of Reverb Effect, we follow the journey of Ugandan cultural artifacts from removal to repatriation, and what happens when they return home. Tracing historical materials and their layered afterlives as they moved from colonial Africa to the Cambridge Museum and back to the Uganda National Museum, we explore how collecting trajectories stripped objects of meaning, and how present-day recovery raises complex questions about belonging and identity. Cheyenne Pettit received her PhD in History in 2025 and is now Assistant Professor of History at Missouri Southern State University. Talitha Pam is a PhD candidate in the joint doctoral program in Anthropology and History, and a 2025-26 Graduate Student Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

    41 min

  2. 25 GEN

    Season 6, Episode 1: Capturing Change to Build a Future: The Woodbridge Oral History Archive

    What happens when a neighborhood tells its own story? In this episode of Reverb Effect, we step into Detroit's Woodbridge neighborhood to hear firsthand accounts of resilience, memory, and change – from postwar life and the 1967 uprising to art, activism, and shifting pressures of today. Cheyenne Pettit received her PhD in History in 2025 and is now Assistant Professor of History at Missouri Southern State University. Richard Bachmann is a resident of Woodbridge and a PhD candidate in History. Angie Gaabo is a resident of Woodbridge and the former director of the Woodbridge Neighborhood Development nonprofit organization. Explore more at the Woodbridge Digital Archive.

    39 min

  3. 13/06/2024

    Season 5, Episode 6: "Does It Matter?": Legacies of the First World War

    Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War—which are as relevant today as they were a century ago. Cheyenne Pettit studies Canadian and British conflicts over the treatment of venereal disease during World War One. Matthew Hershey's research explores meanings and experiences of soldiers' suicide in the First World War. And Lediona Shahollari focuses on the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange during the partition of those two states in the aftermath of the Great War. Join them in a conversation reflecting on the legacy of that conflict.

    33 min

  4. 07/05/2024

    Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives

    Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them.  Professor Patricia Garcia will help us think about the archives through a critical lens. Archivist Brian Williams will help us understand how to build an archive essentially from scratch. And Professor Stephen Berrey will help us understand what role the public can play in archival endeavors.

    33 min

  5. 04/04/2024

    Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924

    One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category "Asiatic."

    24 min

  6. 20/02/2024

    Season 5, Episode 3: "Peace to the World": Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground

    Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the two-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?

    35 min
  7. Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    20/12/2023

    Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    Join Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777 as he waits, in an aristocrat's antechamber in Munich, for a conversation that could change his life. What did it mean to wait in the past? Who waited? How did it shape society and culture, and how did it define social interactions?

    34 min

  8. 27/11/2023

    Season 5, Episode 1: Curating the Remnants of Enslavement: A Conversation with Jason Young

    In this episode, Paige Newhouse interviews Jason Young, co-curator of Hear Me Now: the Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a traveling exhibit housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art centering enslaved artisans and the stoneware they produced.

    29 min
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Descrizione

Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.

Informazioni

  • Creatore
    University of Michigan Department of History
  • Anni di attività
    2019 - 2026
  • Puntate
    28
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti adatti a tutti
  • Copyright
    © 2020 Regents of the University of Michigan
  • Sito web del podcast
    Reverb Effect