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American Campus Podcast
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
Sam 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...
2025-06-25
43 min
American Campus Podcast
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
How 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...
2025-06-18
25 min
American Campus Podcast
Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
Richard 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...
2025-06-11
17 min
American Campus Podcast
Resistance 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...
2025-06-08
54 min
This Guy Sucked
William 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...
2025-06-05
16 min
American Campus Podcast
The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne
We'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...
2025-06-04
24 min
KPFA - Against the Grain
The Right on Campus
At 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...
2025-06-03
15 min
American Campus Podcast
Why does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner
From 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...
2025-06-01
33 min
American Campus Podcast
What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera
Is 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...
2025-05-28
38 min
American Campus Podcast
UVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. Ewing
On 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...
2025-05-21
35 min
American Campus Podcast
Marx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew Hartman
Within 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...
2025-05-14
32 min
American Campus Podcast
The 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...
2025-05-08
50 min
American Campus Podcast
Whither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-Pech
Believe 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...
2025-05-07
21 min
In Bed With The Right
Episode 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:
2025-05-06
50 min
American Campus Podcast
Disability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer Leigh
Jennifer 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...
2025-04-30
30 min
American Campus Podcast
Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni
The 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...
2025-04-23
18 min
American Campus Podcast
Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
Matt 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...
2025-04-16
29 min
American Campus Podcast
The medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
On 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...
2025-04-09
18 min
American Campus Podcast
Casual, a timeless campus fashion with Deirdre Clemente
Deirdre 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: @americancampuspod
2025-04-02
23 min
American Campus Podcast
Great books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy
Tim 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...
2025-03-26
35 min
American Campus Podcast
The American Psychological Association and the War on Terror with Roy Eidelson
On 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...
2025-03-19
36 min
American Campus Podcast
University archives and black market ancient artifacts with Roberta Mazza
For 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 ...
2025-03-12
33 min
American Campus Podcast
Intellectual diversity, the free speech crisis, and other misinformation with Brad Vivian
Bradford 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.
2025-03-05
27 min
American Campus Podcast
Ed tech and student surveillance with Lindsay Weinberg
Alexa 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...
2025-02-26
20 min
American Campus Podcast
The "Floating University" and American empire with Tamson Pietsch
In 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 show
2025-02-19
31 min
American Campus Podcast
Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU with Robert Mann
Huey 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...
2025-02-12
25 min
American Campus Podcast
The 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings with Kendall Gerdes
Kendell 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...
2025-02-06
26 min
American Campus Podcast
Students for Fair Admissions (2023) with Mike Collins
This 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...
2025-01-29
23 min
American Campus Podcast
UC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike Collins
This 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...
2025-01-23
24 min
American Campus Podcast
The Carter administration's threats to deport Iranian students with Will Teague
The 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...
2025-01-17
26 min
American Campus Podcast
College movies of the 2000s, millennials, and The Abercrombie Age with Myles Ethan Lascity
Abercrombie 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...
2025-01-08
22 min
American Campus Podcast
The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan
In 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...
2024-12-18
29 min
American Campus Podcast
The cancel culture panic with Adrian Daub
Adrian 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...
2024-12-11
24 min
American Campus Podcast
Why colleges have trustees with Asheesh Siddique
Asheesh 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...
2024-12-05
28 min
American Campus Podcast
A history of Black women in the ivory tower with Jasmine L. Harris
Jasmine 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...
2024-11-29
29 min
American Campus Podcast
McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker
Ellen 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...
2024-11-21
40 min
American Campus Podcast
Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. Ehrlich
Matthew 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...
2024-11-14
28 min
American Campus Podcast
College women and the 19th Amendment with Kelly Marino
Kelly 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/ ...
2024-11-08
18 min
Skipped History
How We Got Here — and How We Begin to Get Out of Here
Dr. 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...
2024-11-08
32 min
American Campus Podcast
A history of college radio with Kate Jewell
Katherine 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...
2024-10-28
26 min
American Campus Podcast
A case for abolishing college football with Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Nathan 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
2024-10-22
30 min
American Campus Podcast
Segregation scholarships and the debt owed to HBCUs with Crystal Sanders
Crystal 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...
2024-10-16
21 min
American Campus Podcast
Colonial foundations of US colleges with Sharon Stein
Sharon 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/ Support the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to...
2024-10-05
20 min
American Campus Podcast
Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South with Gregg Michel
Gregg 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...
2024-10-05
21 min
The Democracy Group
The Struggle Continues | Democracy in Danger
At 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...
2024-07-10
42 min
Democracy in Danger
The Struggle Continues
At 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.
2024-06-26
41 min
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The Struggle Continues
At 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.
2024-06-26
41 min
New Books in Political Science
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
New Books in Higher Education
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
New Books in Education
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
New Books in American Studies
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
New Books in Critical Theory
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
New Books in American Politics
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
UNC Press Presents Podcast
Lauren 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...
2024-06-15
51 min
The Deep Dive
Episode 191: Campus Wars: Then & Now w/ Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Philip 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...
2024-05-23
58 min