Race, Gender, & Identity Episodes

In this episode, historian Felicity Turner joins The Clio Dialogues host Jennifer Robin Terry to discuss 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺: 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘓𝘢𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. They talk about nineteenth-century infanticide investigations in which women’s experience, expertise, and testimony regarding pregnancy and childbirth, before all-male juries, was key to the process. But as medicine professionalized, authority shifted toward licensed male physicians, and with it, women los...

Historian Megan Kate Nelson joins Jennifer Robin Terry to discuss The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier and how the complicated lives of the people who inhabited the American West challenge one of the nation’s most enduring myths. The popular story of the American West is deceptively simple: white settlers in wagons moving steadily toward the Pacific. The historical reality, however, was a vast network of competing ambitions, shared spaces, and multi-directional jo...

Today, our hair is often a means of self-expression. But what if you had no control over what your hair expressed? And I’m not just talking about a bad hair day! In nineteenth-century America, hair conveyed something very different than what it does today. In this episode of The Clio Dialogues, I am joined by my friend and former classmate (Go Bears!), historian Dr. Sarah Gold McBride to discuss the surprising American cultural history of hair. She explains that by taki...

What if almost everything you've heard about the history of American immigration is missing half the story? Less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship with its decision in Trump v. Barbara, historian Anna O. Law joins The Clio Dialogues to explain why today's debates over birthright citizenship reach back centuries. Rather than beginning with modern immigration policy, Law takes listeners into colonial America, the expansion of slavery, Native American disposses...