Object Project

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The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

  1. 15 de ago.

    Civil Rights Movement: Paschal's Restaurant and Bar in Atlanta

    Come along with Aiden Gent while he discusses how one restaurant helped fuel the fight for equal rights! Paschal's Bar and Restaurant provided the space for organizing and the sustenance to keep going against all odds.

  2. 15 de ago.

    Civil Rights Movement: Emmett Till's Casket

    Bella Hrivnak recounts how the choices made by an angry mother to display her son's murdered body contributed to the Civil RIghts Movement. Emmett Till's casket, and the ways in which his body was moved and represented in death are all material factors in the fight for racial equality.

  3. 15 de ago.

    Civil Rights Movement: Screening Activism with an 1958 RCA Victor Deluxe Black and White Television

    Arianna Hilbert breaks down the important role in the Civil Rights Movement of a simple household object: a television set. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as civil rights protests accelerated, this new technology helped spread the message to living rooms across the nation.

  4. 15 de ago.

    Civil Rights Movement: Dressing for Desegregation--Carlotta’s First Day Skirt Set

    Rachel Lowell explores a vital part of a vital first day of school--the outfit worn by fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls in Little Rock, Arkansas, ain 1957 s she bravely led the way for school desegregation. What can a girl's outfit tell us about social lives in a pivotal moment of history? Tune in!

  5. 28/07/2025

    Holidays: 1862 Reproduction C.S. Richmond Musket and New Years.

    Katelin Staton takes us along the story of a New Year's Eve tradition in Cherryville, North Carolina--firing off a reproduction Civil War musket. Come along to hear about tipsy mummers and nineteenth-century firearms.

  6. 28/07/2025

    Holidays: Corned Beef and Cabbage

    In this season's second episode about St. Patrick's Day, Nick Shelley shares a family recipe for Corned Beef and Cabbage. This classic holiday nosh tells us more about the resilience of immigrants in America than the rolling hills of Éire.

  7. 28/07/2025

    Holidays: Mardi Gras Souvenir Coin

    With a small souvenir coin, Madeline Rorie takes us back to the early days of America's most libertine holiday: Mardi Gras!

  8. 28/07/2025

    Holidays: A Haymarket Gallows Pin

    Matthew Parker unpacks the story and meaning behind a rather dark holiday object--a small pin shaped like a a gallows, created in support of those unfairly convinced in the Haymarket Affair of 1886. In doing so, he introduces us to the once-radical history of Labor Day.

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Sobre

The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

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  • Criado por
    UNCW Public History
  • Anos de atividade
    2019 - 2026
  • Episódios
    42
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © UNCW Public History
  • Site do podcast
    Object Project