Law & Rights 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...

Historians Sergio M. González and Lloyd D. Barba join Jennifer Robin Terry on The Clio Dialogues to discuss their book, Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants—And Why It Still Matters. They explore how an ancient tradition of sacred refuge became a modern movement challenging state power. In 1982, congregations began opening their doors to Salvadorans and Guatemalans fleeing political violence, even as the U.S. government denied them asylum. Facing a...

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...