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American 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 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 TwitterGet...2025-05-0721 min
In 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 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 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 pageGet in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu Follow Amer...2025-04-2318 minAmerican Campus PodcastCloud capitalists and higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt SeyboldMatt Seybold takes us back to the 19th century literary world. We discuss 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 may be 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 Th...2025-04-1629 minAmerican 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.Get in touch! Have a question for the...2025-04-0918 minAmerican 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.Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? 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 Bluesky: @americancampus.bsky.social2025-04-0223 minAmerican Campus PodcastThe Great Books and debates about great books 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 HistoryGet in touch! Have a question for the host or a gu...2025-03-2635 minAmerican 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 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.Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.ed...2025-03-1233 minAmerican 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 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 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.Get in touch! 2025-02-1931 minAmerican 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 Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shep...2025-02-1225 minAmerican 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 InformationGet in touch! H...2025-02-0626 minAmerican 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 hereGet in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at s...2025-01-2923 minAmerican 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 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 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 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 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 Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Ema...2024-12-1124 minAmerican Campus PodcastThe 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 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/ Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at sheph...2024-11-2929 minAmerican 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 Get in touch! Have a ques...2024-11-2140 minAmerican 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 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 min
Skipped 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 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 Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a g...2024-10-2826 minAmerican 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/ Get in touch! Have a question for the host o...2024-10-2230 minAmerican 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. Forthcoming. “Making a Model System: The Battle for Educational Equality in the Nation’s Capital before Brown.” https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/hamiltontikiak.shtml Ketanji...2024-10-1621 minAmerican Campus PodcastColonial foundations of US colleges with Sharon SteinSharon Stein discusses her book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).Stein's Academia page: https://ubc.academia.edu/SharonStein Sharon Stein. 2022. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12600/unsettling-university Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 2021. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675703/hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/ Get in touch! Have a question for the host or a guest? A comment? Feedback? Wan...2024-10-0520 minAmerican Campus PodcastSpying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South with Gregg MichelGregg Michel discusses his book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South (Louisiana State University Press, 2024).Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Louisiana State University Press. https://lsupress.org/9780807182222/spying-on-students/ Gregg L. Michel. 2004. Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/struggle-for-a-better-south-g-michel/1123854008 Andrew C. McKevitt. 2023. Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677248/gun-country/ Christina Greene. 2022. Free Joan Lit...2024-10-0521 min
The Democracy GroupThe Struggle Continues | Democracy in DangerAt 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.Additional InformationDemocracy in Danger PodcastMore shows from The Democrac...2024-07-1042 min
Democracy 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 min
wtjuThe 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 min
New 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 min
New 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 min
New 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 min
New 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 min
UNC 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 min
New 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 min
New 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 min
The 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.
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Democracy in Chains – Nancy Maclean
2 Dope Boys & a Podcast : Nancy MacLean - Democr...2024-05-2358 min
Sky News DailyUS protests: Campus crackdowns, Gaza protests and the free speech debateViolent protests over the Israel-Hamas war have reached boiling point across university campuses in the United States.Pro-Palestinian protesters are demanding their universities cut ties with Israel or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson gets eyewitness analysis from US correspondent Mark Stone in George Washington University. They discuss the arrests, tear gas and counter-protest violence that is taking over universities. Plus, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, a historian at the University of New Orleans and author of ‘Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars’, looks...2024-05-0118 min
Skipped HistoryWhy Universities Crack Down on ProtestorsAs college administrators call the police on pro-Palestinian protestors around the country, I asked Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd if she’d explore some of the history behind crackdowns on students. Dr. Shepherd, a historian and teacher at the University of New Orleans, kindly agreed.In her book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, and in conversation, Dr. Shepherd examines waves of student protests in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Echoing what we’re seeing today, some of the biggest standoffs occurred at Columbia. Then, and now, administrators took an increasingly punitive...2024-04-2629 min
In The MarginsEP132: Resistance From the Right: Conservatives and The Campus Wars in Modern America with Dr. Lauren Lassabe ShepherdMeet Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, an instructor in the College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Human Development at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-Society for U.S. Intellectual History Community Scholar, who was recognized as a leading woman by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education for her outstanding contributions in 2024. In this episode, Diverse host Dr. Jamal Watson engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Shepherd, author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars. The discussion highlights the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s.2024-03-2125 min
The Vital CenterConservative voices in 1960s campus activism, with Lauren Lassabe ShepherdIn the early 1960s, colleges and universities in the United States had been politically quiescent for over a decade, following the changes and controversies that had roiled higher education in the 1930s and the post-World War II years when the G.I. Bill had paid the tuitions of large numbers of returning veterans. The demonstrations that erupted on campus by the later 1960s are usually associated with the causes of the political left, including the civil rights, antiwar, countercultural, and feminist movements. But for a while in the early part of the decade it was possible to think that...2024-03-1156 min
Explaining HistoryResistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture In this thought-provoking episode of the Explaining History podcast, we delve into the often overlooked conservative resistance on American college campuses during the height of the counter-culture movement. Join us as we sit down with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, academic at the University of New Orleans and distinguished historian and author, who sheds light on the dynamic and complex interactions between conservative students and the liberal ideologies that defined much of the 1960s and 70s academic landscape.Through our conversation, Lauren provides a nuanced analysis of the motivations, strategies, and impacts of right-wing...2024-02-0231 minExplaining HistoryResistance from the right: America's campus backlash against the counter culture In this thought-provoking episode of the Explaining History podcast, we delve into the often overlooked conservative resistance on American college campuses during the height of the counter-culture movement. Join us as we sit down with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, academic at the University of New Orleans and distinguished historian and author, who sheds light on the dynamic and complex interactions between conservative students and the liberal ideologies that defined much of the 1960s and 70s academic landscape.Through our conversation, Lauren provides a nuanced analysis of the motivations, strategies, and impacts of right-wing...2024-02-0231 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsResistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America by Lauren Lassabe ShepherdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719841to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America
Author: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Narrator: Emily Durante
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Release date: December 19, 2023
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
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...2023-12-1910h 11
the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsResistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America by Lauren Lassabe ShepherdPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America Author: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 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...2023-12-1930 min
Professor Buzzkill History PodcastResistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern AmericaWhen thinking of campus protests, most Americans think of left-wing students marching and shouting. Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd shows, however, that right-wing students and groups have protested very frequently on college campuses, even if they haven’t received as much attention from the media. In part, right-wing student protests in the 60s and 70s were a reaction to left-wing protests. But we also talk about how right-wing campus politics built political movements of their own, and promoted their causes directly. Episode 538.2023-12-0542 min
Axelbank Reports History and Today#142: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd - "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and Campus Wars"For decades, conservative elected officials, activists and think tanks have argued that college campuses are hostile to them and their ideas. In Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd's book, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and Campus Wars," we see how that movement was sprouted, what its arguments are and how successful their efforts have been to craft education policy to fit their own goals. She shows how William F. Buckley gave the movement intellectual juice while foot soldiers protested progressive efforts to teach the history of race, organize against military actions and promote liberal social causes. She also explains the roots...2023-12-0548 min
Premium Ad-Free: Straight White American JesusConservatives and the Campus WarsBeginning in the 1960s, stakeholders on the American Right began astro-turfing conservative student organizations in order to counter the challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.Subscribe...2023-11-2841 minStraight White American JesusConservatives and the Campus WarsBeginning in the 1960s, stakeholders on the American Right began astro-turfing conservative student organizations in order to counter the challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.Subscribe...2023-11-2841 min
Past PresentEpisode 399: Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican ChaosIn this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the drama around the election of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: · Until this week, the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was little known beyond Louisiana and ultraconservative circles. Natalia referenced this CNN piece about Johnson’s homophobic comments, and historian Matthew Dallek’s article for TIME. Neil referred to Niki’s latest CNN column. In our re...2023-11-0744 min
Historians At The MoviesEpisode 47: Dirty Dancing with Leah Lagrone, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, and Lauren MacIvor ThompsonThis week Historians At The Movies dives into one of the sharpest historical films of the 1980s- Dirty Dancing. No, we're not kidding either. Guests Leah Lagrone, Lauren MacIvor Thompson, and Lauren Lassabe Shepherd tackle the memory of the 60s from the 80s, young love, issues of labor and class, dancing, AIDS, the Reagan era, abortion, whether or not Baby and Johnny are still together, and of course, that soundtrack. Prepare for the time of your lives.About our guests:Dr. Leah LaGrone is an assistant professor of history and public history director. She graduated from...2023-10-181h 19
Unsung HistoryThe Student Right in the late 1960sIn the late 1960s, as college campuses became hotbeds of liberal protest, conservative college groups, like the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI), the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), and College Republicans, backed by powerful conservative elders and their deep pockets, fought back, staging counter protests, publishing conservative newspapers, taking over student governments, and suing colleges to remain open.Joining me in this episode to discuss the campus right in more detail is Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America....2023-10-0944 min
Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)The forgotten history of how right-wing college students invented 'cancel culture'Episode SummaryWhile it’s easy to believe that Donald Trump unleashed the radical forces that threaten American democracy today, the truth is that they have been present within our system for more than 50 years. And in many cases, some of the same people like Roger Stone or Karl Rove who were active on the student right in the 1960s and 1970s are still active today.Although the mid-20th century is known as a time of left-wing activism and political change, the time period was also when today’s far-right began coalescing as well—and in...2023-10-021h 26
Drafting the PastLauren Lassabe Shepherd Shamelessly Reaches OutWelcome back to Drafting the Past, a podcast about the craft of writing history. I’m your host, Kate Carpenter, and this is the 30th episode of Drafting the Past! In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd about the process of writing and revising her debut book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (UNC Press, 2023). Lauren is a historian of higher education, and she teaches at the University of New Orleans. We had this conversation early this year when Lauren was still in the process of going over final page proofs, so you’ll h...2023-08-2951 min
Past PresentEpisode 388: The Hollywood StrikeIn this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the current strike in Hollywood. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: · Hollywood actors and writers have been on strike for more than one hundred days. Niki drew on this Hollywood Reporter article about Ronald Reagan’s tenure as a union leader. Natalia referred to this New Yorker story about Orange Is The New Black, and we all drew on this NPR retrospective on the history of Hollywood strikes.2023-08-2246 min
Converging Dialogues#254 - Trying To "Own the Libs" Since 1967: A Dialogue with Lauren Lassabe ShepherdIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd about conservatives on colleges campuses in the 1960s. They talked about the organization of the book, presentism, the New Right being exported to mass media and politics, and how the New Right was very “Anti.” They discuss Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), movement from college campuses to politics, Libertarians split from conservatives, and the impact on current politics. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian, writer, and teacher. She teaches in the Department of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans. Her research focu...2023-08-211h 38
The Time of Monsters with Jeet HeerYoung Americans for Freedom Hates FreedomThere’s an old joke that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. The right-wing student group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), founded in William F. Buckley’s house in 1960, is similarly misnamed. It’s not young; the current head, Scott Walker, is 55. It’s definition of American is very narrowly partisan and reactionary in ways that most Americans would reject. And as for freedom, it has a long history of aligning with administrators and government authorities to suppress its political foes– something I wrote about in a recent column. Most recently, YAF launched a...2023-07-2335 min
The Nation PodcastsYoung Americans for Freedom Hates Freedom | Time of MonstersThere’s an old joke that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. The right-wing student group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), founded in William F. Buckley’s house in 1960, is similarly misnamed. It’s not young; the current head, Scott Walker, is 55. It’s definition of American is very narrowly partisan and reactionary in ways that most Americans would reject. And as for freedom, it has a long history of aligning with administrators and government authorities to suppress its political foes– something I wrote about in a recent column. Most recently, YAF launched a...2023-07-2335 min
Historians At The MoviesEpisode 24: Old School with Lauren Lassabe ShepherdThis week Lauren Lassabe Shepherd swings by to talk about why we love college and why some of us just can't seem to grow up. We get into the production of her forthcoming book, the process of creating oral histories, and perhaps surprising roles that Greek life now perform in the lives of college students. She's got a new book coming out this summer about the campus wars in the United States and you can check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Right-Conservatives-America-Politics/dp/1469674491/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TV97KWZ9WPPU&keywords=lauren+lassabe+shepherd&qid=1683559714&s...2023-05-091h 11