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Join Jennifer and Jacob as they interview Dr. Adam Rathge of the University of Dayton and examine the long and complicated history behind cannabis use in the United States.

Interested in learning more? Check out the following readings.

Two of Dr. Rathge's articles can be found here:
https://southernspaces.org/2018/mapping-muggleheads-new-orleans-and-marijuana-menace-1920-1930/

and

https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2015/august/pondering-pot/

You may also want to check out Emily Dufton's "Grass Roots," Isaac Campos's "Home Grown," Nick Johnson "Grass Roots: A History of Cannabis in the American West," Dale Geiringer's “The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California,” and Bonnie Whitebread's "The Marihuana Conviction"

Co-Hosts: Jennifer Boch and Jacob Kudysch
Researchers: Nick Chupela, Ashley Collura, Jamison Shaw, Adam Piston, and Donald Ballou
Special Thanks to Kristen Rock and her team at WCLH!

Join hosts Jennifer Boch and Adam Piston as they interview Dr. Yanqiu Zheng and discuss the fascinating backstory to today's relationship between the world's largest economies: the United States and China.

Co-Hosts: Jennifer Boch and Adam Piston
Researchers: Nick Chupela, Jamison Shaw, Jacob Kudysch, and Donald Ballou
Special Thanks to Kristen Rock and her team

For further reading on the subject, here are a list of books recommended by Dr. Zheng:

Warren I. Cohen, America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, 6th ed. (Columbia University Press, 2019)

Dong Wang, The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)

R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee, eds., Land without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present (University of California Press, 1989)

Judy Yung et al., eds. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (University of California Press, 2006)