Hagley History Hangout

Apr 13 2025 192 ep. 28 mins 154

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Sound & Music in the du Pont Women's World in the Age of Revolution with Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

Apr 13 2025 22 mins

Where can you find music in the archive? Everywhere, if you know how to look. So argues our guest musicologist Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, associate professor at the University of North Texas and former NEH-Hagley postdoctoral fellow. In this episode, Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden discusses her latest book project about amateur music making in the Francophone world during the Age of Revo

International Business Associations & Regulations on Multinational Corporations with Maia Müller

Mar 30 2025 22 mins

The mid-twentieth century emergence of multinational corporations wealthier and more powerful than many nations presented a problem for organizations tasked with overseeing international cooperation and development. How to create a regulatory framework around multinationals that would protect the interests of disadvantaged peoples and regions, while not limiting the ability of mult

On Ice: America's Nineteenth-Century Ice Age and the Making of Modern Life with Andrew Robichaud

Mar 16 2025 32 mins

Ice, ice, baby. In nineteenth-century America ice was everywhere. Extracted from northern ponds and shipped around the world, ice became a valuable commodity and a vital input in numerous industries. In his latest research Dr. Andrew Robichaud, Associate Professor of History at Boston University, explores the ice industry in nineteenth-century America and its many and complex imp

Analog Superpowers: Technology Theft and the National Security State with Kate Epstein

Mar 02 2025 45 mins

Roger Horowitz talks with Katherine Epstein about her new book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State (University of Chicago Press, 2024). From the publisher: “A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology to unmask the tension between intellectual property rights and national security.

The Nature of War: Environment and Industry in the U.S. During WWI with Gerard Fitzgerald

Feb 16 2025 26 mins

Far from the battlefield the First World War spurred a massive increase in industrial output in the United States. Arms and armaments, ships and steel, a vast stream of materiel poured from American factories, mines, and mills to feed the insatiable maw of war. The consequent strain placed on American railroad infrastructure left it vulnerable to environmental disruption, such as t

“Keep Within Compass”: Geographies of Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865 with Emily Wells

Feb 02 2025 22 mins

The experience of girlhood in early national and antebellum America was both circumscribed and liberated by geography. Spaces defined who American girls were expected to be. Spaces, too, allowed girls to redefine themselves and to defend themselves against irksome expectations. Looking backward, the geographies of girlhood can be read as evidence of lives both intimate and public.

Plasticizing China: A Cultural History of Everyday Things, 1960-1990 with Yaxi Liu

Jan 19 2025 19 mins

Chinese plastic is cheap and abundant. It wasn’t always. The ubiquity of plastic in twenty-first century consumer culture belies its past rarity and the many cultural meanings it has borne over time. How did plastic come to play such a central role in the economy of China? In her dissertation research Yaxi Liu, PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, reveals the story of plas

Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013 with Jacob Bruggeman

Jan 05 2025 31 mins

Large technological systems can be vulnerable to manipulation, perhaps especially when they are centralized, monopolistic, and complacent. That was the situation in American telecommunications in the early 1960s when a generation of hackers developed techniques to manipulate the Bell telephone system to their advantage, a practice known as phone phreaking. In his dissertation res

Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Dec 22 2024 28 mins

What is jazz and when did it begin? Music scholars do not agree. Taking an archival perspective, however, clarifies the dilemma and allows us to see jazz where people at the time performed, recorded, consumed, and discussed what they thought of as jazz music. The emergence of jazz as an economic force, and a defining cultural aspect of an era, were tightly bound up in the prevailin

Management as Design: Industrial Designers and Business Culture with Penelope Dean

Dec 08 2024 24 mins

Tracing the circulation of ideas can cast light on patterns of interaction between various people and institutions in the past. During the mid-late twentieth century, a circuit of ideas linked business culture, industrial designers, academia, and related professional organizations. The movement of values, techniques, and perspectives between these distinct but interpenetrative spac