American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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American Campus Podcast

A history of American higher education hosted by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Episodes

  1. 12/18/2024

    The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan

    Send us a textIn 1960, California experimented with tuition-free college for all public campuses in the state. As Andrew Higgins explains in Higher Education for All (UNC Press, 2023), the California Master Plan actually worked to make higher education more unequal for students. As calls for free college have gained traction in the 20th century, Higgins reminds us of critical shortcomings of the Cold War California experiment.Andrew Stone Higgins. 2023. Higher Education for All: Racial Inequa...

    29 min

  2. 12/11/2024

    "The Cancel Culture Panic" with Adrian Daub

    Send us a textAdrian Daub explains the recent history of the cancel culture moral panic.Adrian Daub. 2024. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/cancel-culture-panic Jennifer Burns. 2023. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374601140/miltonfriedman Samuel L. Catlin. 2024. The Campus Does Not Exist: How Campus War is Made. Pa...

    25 min

  3. 12/05/2024

    Who governs the college? A history of boards of trustees with Asheesh Siddique

    Send us a textAsheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today.Asheesh Siddique. 2024. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267716/the-archive-of-empire/ Asheesh Siddique. 2021, May 19. Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue...

    28 min

  4. 11/29/2024

    "Black Women, Ivory Tower" with Jasmine L. Harris

    Send us a textJasmine Harris discusses the historic experiences of Black women students and faculty at predominantly white colleges.Jasmine L. Harris. 2024. Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education. Broadleaf Books. https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506489834/Black-Women-Ivory-Tower Jasmine L. Harris’s website: https://www.drjasmineharris.com/ Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray. 2022. The Personal Librarian. Pe...

    29 min

  5. 11/21/2024

    McCarthyism and the Universities with Ellen Schrecker

    Send us a textEllen Schrecker discusses the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education. She walks us through her 1986 book, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Nearly four decades after publication, it is no less timely.Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.e...

    41 min

  6. 11/14/2024

    "The Krebiozen Hoax" with Matthew C. Ehrlich

    Send us a textMatthew C. Ehrlich tells the story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s. His book, The Krebiozen Hoax, helps us contextualize decades of conflicts surrounding medical ethics, pseudoscience, and health disinformation through the setting of a postwar midwestern campus.Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press. https://...

    28 min

  7. 11/08/2024

    College women and the 19th Amendment with Kelly L. Marino

    Send us a textKelly L. Marino discusses college women's role in the suffrage movement. Listen to hear more about her new book, Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign (New York University Press, 2024).Kelly L. Marino. 2024. Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/Michael Roy. 2024. Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement...

    19 min

  8. 10/28/2024

    A history of college radio with Kate Jewell

    Send us a textKatherine Rye Jewell "hits" the high notes of the history of college radio. Listen to her discuss her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).katherinejewell.com Katherine Rye Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677255/live-from-the-underground/ Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The...

    27 min

  9. 10/22/2024

    “The End of College Football” with Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

    Send us a textNathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva discuss their book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).Follow Nathan, Derek, and their co-host Johanna Mellis on The End of Sport podcast.Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. 2024. The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/Derek Si...

    31 min

  10. 10/15/2024

    Segregation scholarships with Crystal R. Sanders

    Send us a textCrystal Sanders discusses her book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679808/a-forgotten-migration/ Dylan C. Penningroth. 2023. Before the Movement: The Hidden History o...

    21 min

  11. 10/05/2024

    "Spying on Students" with Gregg Michel

    Send us a textGregg Michel discusses his book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South (Louisiana State University Press, 2024).Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Louisiana State University Press. https://lsupress.org/9780807182222/spying-on-students/ Gregg L. Michel. 2004. Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. Palgrave MacMillan. h...

    22 min

  12. 10/05/2024

    "Unsettling the University" with Sharon Stein

    Send us a textSharon Stein discusses her book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).Stein's Academia page: https://ubc.academia.edu/SharonStein Sharon Stein. 2022. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12600/unsettling-university Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 2021. Hospicing Mod...

    21 min
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A history of American higher education hosted by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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