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American Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastGod and Man at Yale with Sam TanenhausSam Tanenhaus joins me for a deep dive into the college career of friend of the pod, William F. Buckley Jr., and his 1951 shot that fired the campus wars: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."References mentioned this episode:Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.Sam Tanenhaus. 1998. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Penguin Random House. (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize!)Heather Hendershot. 2016. Open to Debate: How William F...2025-06-2543 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe academic spies of WWII with Elyse GrahamHow does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.References mentioned this episode:Elyse Graham. 2024. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Harper Collins.Elyse Graham’s websiteElyse Graham’s BlueskyMichelle Young. 2025. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland. Harper Collins.Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.e...2025-06-1825 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastRichard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian AndersonRichard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of Howard University law school, diplomat, and a celebrated intellectual of the Reconstruction era. Christian K. Anderson takes us through Greener's remarkable career in academia and international politics.Links to references in the episode:Christian Anderson. 2022. The forgotten impact of Harvard’s first Black graduate. Washington Post.Christian Anderson. 2020. What should replace Confederate statues? The Conversation.Katherine Reynolds Chaddock. 2017. Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College. Johns Hopkins University Press. Robert Greene II...2025-06-1117 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastResistance from the Right (joint episode with Against the Grain)Check out my interview with Sasha Lilley for Against the Grain podcast. We talk about Resistance from the Right, which you can grab a copy of here. References mentioned this episode:Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. 2023. Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. University of North Carolina Press. Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu Follow American Campus Podcast:on Patreon: ww...2025-06-0854 minThis Guy SuckedThis Guy SuckedWilliam McCain with Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (Patreon Preview)Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F.GuestOur guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus. Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.Sensitive Themes & TopicsRacism, racial violence, homophobia Credits- Host & Executive Producer: Cla...2025-06-0516 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe student Old Left with Katherine BallantyneWe're headed South with Kate Ballantyne to talk about the Old Left! Plus, Kate's tips for conducting archival research.To join the student activism researchers Google group, send me an email: shephell@iu.edu.References mentioned this episode:Katherine J. Ballantyne. 2024. Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee. University of Georgia Press.Harriet Constable. 2024. The Instrumentalist. Simon & Schuster.Mona Awad. 2020. Bunny: A Novel. Penguin. Bluesky: @kateballantyne.bsky.socialSupport the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to r...2025-06-0424 minKPFA - Against the GrainKPFA - Against the GrainThe Right on CampusAt the height of leftwing activism in the Sixties, conservatives funded tax-deducible rightwing groups on campuses to counter Black Power, demands for ethnic studies, and the New Left. As historian Lauren Shephard illustrates, such groups like Young Americans for Freedom groomed future Republican leaders and influential conservatives, like Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich, where they learned to spin unpopular politics as popular. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America University of North Carolina Press, 2023 American Campus Podcast The post The Right on Campus appeared first...2025-06-0315 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastWhy does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth KershnerFrom the conception of ROTC after the Spanish-American War, colleges and K12 schools have been central to US military recruitment efforts. Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner explain the history of school militarism, and how peace groups have tried to break the war habit in American education.References mentioned this episode:Scott Harding, Charles Howlett and Seth Kershner. 2022. Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education. University of Georgia Press.DoD STARBASE: A Department of Defense Youth Program school map.Aditi Lamba. February 10, 2025. “Kansas Starbase STEM program temporarily shut down.” KSN-TV. Sup...2025-06-0133 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastWhat colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole BederaIs the Title IX process working as intended? Nicole Bedera tells us what's working, what isn't, and what we can do about it.References mentioned this episode:Nicole Bedera. 2024. On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Assault. University of California Press.Classroom resources to accompany On the Wrong SideNicole Bedera’s websiteSupport the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu Follow American Ca...2025-05-2838 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastUVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. EwingOn today’s episode, we’re covering the history and purposes of the first American research universities, Indian boarding schools, and Historically Black Colleges, all of which emerged at the same time in US history.References mentioned this episode:Eve L. Ewing. 2025. The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. Penguin Random House.Will Guidara. 2022. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect. Penguin Random House.James McBride. 2023. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. Riverhead Books.Build Coffee and Books in ChicagoSubstack @eveewingInstagram @eve.ewingBluesky @eveewing.bsky.soci...2025-05-2135 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastMarx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew HartmanWithin and beyond the academy, Karl Marx remains a specter who assumes quite different shapes from his friends and enemies. According to Andrew Hartman, Marx himself wouldn't recognize many of the various derivatives or criticisms of his work. Hartman guides us back into the late 20th century classroom to meet Marx's academic friends and enemies. References mentioned this episode:Andrew Hartman. 2025. Karl Marx in America. University of Chicago Press.Andrew Hartman. 2019. A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, second edition. University of Chicago Press.Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman, e...2025-05-1432 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe Trustees (joint episode with In Bed with the Right podcast)It was my great pleasure to join friends of the pod, Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub (who you'll remember from our Cancel Culture Panic episode), for a deep dive into the history of the trustees. Be sure to check out and subscribe to their excellent podcast, In Bed with the Right.Follow along with IBWTR, Adrian, and Moira:Listen and subscribe to In Bed with the Right on Spotify, Apple, Patreon, or wherever you get your podcasts.Follow IBWTR podcast on Bluesky @inbedwiththeright.bsky.socialFollow Moira: @moiradonegan.bsky.social Follow Adrian: @adriandaub.bsky.socialReferences m...2025-05-0850 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastWhither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-PechBelieve it or not, an English degree is still worth pursuing in a capitalist economy, even if one is not independently wealthy! Of this we can be hopeful according to a new book called Major Trade-offs by Corey Moss-Pech.References mentioned this episode:Corey Moss-Pech. 2025. Major Trade-offs: The Surprising Truths about College Majors & Entry-Level Jobs. University of Chicago Press.Robert Penn Warren. 1946. All the King’s Men.Jesmyn Ward booksMaya Angelou booksHarry Crews. 1978. Childhood: The Biography of a Place.Library of America Complete Novels of William FaulknerCorey Moss’s Pech’s website, Bluesky, and TwitterSupp...2025-05-0721 minIn Bed With The RightIn Bed With The RightEpisode 74: The Trustees (with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd)Have you been enjoying stories about all-powerful student activist groups shutting down vigorous debate on college campuses? Of the insidious cabals of Performance Studies professors thwarting the progress of science? Well, wait till you get a load of the people who actually run the show. In this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (of the American Campus podcast) to discuss the trustees, their role in university governance, why we tended not to hear much about them ... and why suddenly, in 2025, we very much do!Books, articles and podcasts discussed in this episode: 2025-05-0650 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastDisability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer LeighJennifer Leigh discusses the academy's struggle to accommodate learners and workers with disabilities, mental health challenges, and neurodivergences--especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. We talk about how US ed-tech companies take advantage of disability and mental health accommodations to exploit student and faculty intellectual property.References mentioned this episode:Jennifer Leigh’s faculty pageNicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh, eds. 2024. Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education. UCL Press.Paul Novosad, Sam Asher, Catriona Farquharson, and Eni Iljazi. October 2024. Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates. Torsten Bell. Dec...2025-04-3030 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastWhy colleges have dormitories with Carla YanniThe college dormitory is an American tradition, though it hasn’t always been necessary for education. Carla Yanni tells us why the dorm has become a feature of campus architecture since the 17th century.References mentioned this episode:Carla Yanni. 2019. Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory. University of Minnesota Press.Carla Yanni’s faculty pageSupport the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu Follow American Camp...2025-04-2318 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastHigher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt SeyboldMatt Seybold takes us back to Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Drawing parallels from the novel and its HBCU, Matt helps us see how we're living through our own second Gilded Age, a post-capitalist era of technofeudalism.References mentioned this episode:The American Vandal PodcastThe American Vandal SubstackMattSeybold.comMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. 1873. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.Ron Chernow. 2025. Mark Twain. Penguin Random House. Willy Theyer. 2024. The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University. Translated by...2025-04-1629 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe medical school building boom with Katherine CarrollOn the medical school building boom of the early 20th century (1890-1940), and what it can tell us about the professionalization of academic medicineMentioned this episode:Katherine L. Carroll. 2022. Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician. University of Pittsburgh Press.Amber N. Wiley. 2025. Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital. University of Pittsburgh Press. Margaret Grubiak. 2022. White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960. University of Notre Dame Press.Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast...2025-04-0918 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastCasual, a timeless campus fashion with Deirdre ClementeDeirdre Clemente on the timeless campus style: casual.Deirdre Clemente. 2014. Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style. University of North Carolina Press.John Izzo. 2007. The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu Follow American Campus Podcast:on Patreon: www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast on Instagram: @americancampuspod2025-04-0223 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastGreat books and the canon wars with Tim LacyTim Lacy lets us in on all things Great Books: champions, curriculums, and controversies.Tim Lacy. 2013. The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. Palgrave Macmillan.Daniel Wickberg. 2024. A History of American Thought 1860–2000: Thinking the Modern. Routledge.Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. 2019. Ideas that Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press.Earl Shorris. 1997. New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy. WW Norton.Leo Tolstoy. 1867. War and Peace.Learn more about the Society for US Intellectual HistorySupport the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in...2025-03-2635 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe American Psychological Association and the War on Terror with Roy EidelsonOn the APA's collaboration with CIA to develop 'enhanced interrogation techniques' for the U.S. War on Terror. Plus, Eidelson's advice for how we can hold our academic and professional organizations accountable when they violate their stated missions.Mentioned in the show:Roy J. Eidelson. 2023. Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror. McGill-Queens University Press.Roy J. Eidelson. 2018. Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible. Green Hall Books. [Free PDF]Roy Eidelson’s websiteProPoublica, American P...2025-03-1936 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastUniversity archives and black market ancient artifacts with Roberta MazzaFor centuries, academics and university archivists have participated in and benefitted from the illicit trade of ancient artifacts. Roberta Mazza discusses this history and the academy's role in restoring and repatriating ill-gotten collections.Roberta Mazza. 2024. Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts. Stanford University Press.Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. 2019. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. Verso. BBC podcast: Intrigue: Word of God.Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu ...2025-03-1233 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastIntellectual diversity, the free speech crisis, and other misinformation with Brad VivianBradford Vivian unpacks calls for "intellectual diversity" and free speech, explaining how these seemingly fair-minded demands work to undermine actual diversity in the classroom and on campus.Bradford Vivian. 2022. Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education. Oxford University Press.Bradford Vivian’s Substack, Campus InformationJack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire. 2023. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School. The New Press.Tressie McMillan Cottom on the NYT and campus stories, 36:30. Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9). American Vandal podcast. 2025-03-0527 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastEd tech and student surveillance with Lindsay WeinbergAlexa in the dorm room. ProctorU monitoring exams. TurnItIn helping* faculty grade. Tech services are omnipresent on and off campus, and they come with a cost. Lindsay Weinberg offers a critical analysis of today's Smart Universities.Lindsay Weinberg. 2025. Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age. Johns Hopkins University Press.Tamara Kneese. January 27, 2021. "How a Dead Professor is Teaching a University Art History Class." Slate.Sonel Cutler. March 29, 2024. "Graduate Students Went on Strike. Then a Dean Suggested That Professors Use AI to Keep Classes Going." The Chronicle of Higher Education.Alex Hanna and Emily Bender. 2025. The AI Con...2025-02-2620 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe "Floating University" and American empire with Tamson PietschIn 1926, an NYU professor took to the high seas with 500 undergraduates on a worldwide learning voyage. The experimental "Floating University" docked for excursions at nearly 50 ports, where students were introduced to world leaders Mussolini, Gandhi, and others. Tamson Pietsch recounts the endeavor, unpacking the larger story of US intellectual imperialism in the 1920s.Tamson Pietsch. 2023. The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. University of Chicago Press. Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne, and Marcia Langton, eds. 2024. Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne. Melbourne University Press.Support the show2025-02-1931 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastKingfish U: Huey Long and LSU with Robert MannHuey Long, Louisiana's notorious Depression-era governor and rumored presidential challenger to FDR, doesn't get enough recognition for his role in the expansion of LSU's campus throughout the 1930s. Listen as Bob Mann recounts Long's legacy at Kingfish U.Robert Mann. 2023. Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Louisiana State University Press. Check out Robert Mann's other worksRead Robert Mann on SubstackFollow Robert Mann on BlueskyBrowse Niall Williams’s novels Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.e...2025-02-1225 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings with Kendall GerdesKendell Gerdes unpacks popular depictions of "sensitive" students throughout the 2010s. She tackles safe spaces, trigger warnings, #BlackOnCampus, and other student calls for accessibility over the last few years, showing how these matters are not in opposition to faculty academic freedom.Links mentioned in the episode:Kendall Gerdes. 2024. Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Use code 29GERDES30 for 30% off)Follow Kendall Gerdes on BlueSkyBradford Vivian. 2022. Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education. Oxford University Press. Bradford Vivian’s Substack, Campus InformationSupport the show...2025-02-0626 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastStudents for Fair Admissions (2023) with Mike CollinsThis is Part II of an earlier discussion with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Lau (1974), Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recent book, The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. Mike Steven Collins. 2024. The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. University Press of Kansas.Listen to Part I hereSupport the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@i...2025-01-2923 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastUC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike CollinsThis is Part I of a two-part interview with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recent book, The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. Mike Steven Collins. 2024. The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. University Press of Kansas.Heather McGhee. 2022. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Penguin Random House.David W. Congdon. 2024. Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture. Cambridge University Press.M...2025-01-2324 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe Carter administration's threats to deport Iranian students with Will TeagueThe ICE disappearance of Columbia student protestor Mahmoud Khalil in March 2025 followed in the wake of Trump's promise to deport campus activists. But 50 years ago, the Carter administration set the stage for student deportations. Will Teague discusses the history of presidential threats to deport student dissenters, beginning with the Carter administration's attacks against Iranian international students in the 1970s.Will Teague. 2024. Resistance/Rise: Iranian Student Activism in the Late 1970s US. History of Education Quarterly. Reza Aslan. 2022. An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville. W. W. Norton. Timothy Snyder. 2024. On Freedom. Pe...2025-01-1726 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastCollege movies of the 2000s, millennials, and The Abercrombie Age with Myles Ethan LascityAbercrombie and Fitch is back, millennials and gen x-ers! Ethan Lascity takes us for a walk down memory lane in a discussion ofLegally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts.Myles Ethan Lascity. 2024. The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680910/the-abercrombie-age/ Lyz Lenz. 2024. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life. Penguin.  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704120/this-american-ex-wife-by-lyz-lenz/ Taylor Lorenz. 2023. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. Simon and Schuster. https://www...2025-01-0822 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master PlanIn 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 Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469672915/higher-education-for-all/ Ursula K. Le Guin. 1974. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. H...2024-12-1829 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastThe cancel culture panic with Adrian DaubAdrian 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. Parapraxis. https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-campus-does-not-exist Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lau...2024-12-1124 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastWhy colleges have trustees with Asheesh SiddiqueAsheesh 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.com/story/campus-cancel-culture-university-boards What are Universities for? 2024-2025 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Massachusetts–Amherst. https://websites.umass.edu/feinberg/ Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in Student Debt...2024-12-0528 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastA history of Black women in the ivory tower with Jasmine L. HarrisJasmine 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. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623191/the-personal-librarian-a-gma-book-club-pick-by-marie-benedict-and-victoria-christopher-murray/ Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.ed...2024-11-2929 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastMcCarthyism and the universities with Ellen SchreckerEllen 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.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo119945783.html Ellen Schrecker’s website with links to previous books: https://www.ellenschrecker.com/books Support the show at patreon.com...2024-11-2140 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastPseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. EhrlichMatthew 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://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088117 David F. Labaree. 2017. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/u...2024-11-1428 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastCollege women and the 19th Amendment with Kelly MarinoKelly 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. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479830091/young-abolitionists/ Paul M. Renfro. 2024. The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680859/the-life-and-death-of-ryan-white/ ...2024-11-0818 minSkipped HistorySkipped HistoryHow We Got Here — and How We Begin to Get Out of HereDr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (University of New Orleans) is the author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. She’s also the host of the American Campus Podcast. Her work, which has appeared in various national publications, traces the modern conservative movement to campus wars in the late 1960s. In her estimation, neither Trump nor the conservative agenda is actually very popular. The question is how we can advance policies that are. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...2024-11-0832 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastA history of college radio with Kate JewellKatherine 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 Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087257 Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get...2024-10-2826 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastA case for abolishing college football with Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek SilvaNathan 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 Silva, Johanna Mellis, and Nathan Kalman-Lamb. 2024. The End of Sport podcast. https://theendofsport.podbean.com/ Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast 2024-10-2230 minAmerican Campus PodcastAmerican Campus PodcastSegregation scholarships and the debt owed to HBCUs with Crystal SandersCrystal 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 of Black Civil Rights. Liveright. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093107Tikia K. Hamilton. 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Today on the show — our final episode for now — historian Lauren Lassabe Shepherd says these events fit a pattern of campus conflict going back decades to the Vietnam War.Additional InformationDemocracy in Danger PodcastMore shows from The Democrac...2024-07-1042 minDemocracy in DangerDemocracy in DangerThe Struggle ContinuesAt colleges across America this spring, thousands of students and many faculty called on their institutions to recognize Israel’s war in Palestine as a genocide, and to disclose their interests in arms, oil and violence. Administrators did not take kindly to the students’ demands or their tactics, and called in the police instead. Today on the show — our final episode for now — historian Lauren Lassabe Shepherd says these events fit a pattern of campus conflict going back decades to the Vietnam War.2024-06-2641 minwtjuwtjuThe Struggle ContinuesAt colleges across America this spring, thousands of students and many faculty called on their institutions to recognize Israel’s war in Palestine as a genocide, and to disclose their interests in arms, oil and violence. Administrators did not take kindly to the students’ demands or their tactics, and called in the police instead. Today on the show — our final episode for now — historian Lauren Lassabe Shepherd says these events fit a pattern of campus conflict going back decades to the Vietnam War.2024-06-2641 minNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Political ScienceLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minNew Books in Higher EducationNew Books in Higher EducationLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minNew Books in EducationNew Books in EducationLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Critical TheoryLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minNew Books in American PoliticsNew Books in American PoliticsLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minUNC Press Presents PodcastUNC Press Presents PodcastLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy...2024-06-1551 minThe Deep DiveThe Deep DiveEpisode 191: Campus Wars: Then & Now w/ Lauren Lassabe ShepherdPhilip welcomes Lauren Lassabe Shepherd to the show to discuss her book Resistance from the Right: Conservatives & The Campus Wars in Modern America. In their conversation, they look at how the current campus uprising and the university and media response takes its cues from the conservative reaction to progressive movements from the 60s to current day. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip’s Drop: Democracy in Chains – Nancy Maclean 2 Dope Boys & a Podcast : Nancy MacLean - Democr...2024-05-2358 min