Dig: A History Podcast

194 Episodes

1. History of Thin: The Changing Meaning of Thinness in the Modern World

   Published: 7/29/2024
2. The Battle for Deaf Education: Clashing Methods, Minds, and Cultures in the Nineteenth Century United States

   Published: 7/22/2024
3. One-Sex, Two-Sex, or …?: Thinking About the Sexed Body in History

   Published: 7/15/2024
4. Bonus Episode: The Nineteenth-Century Feminist and Writer that You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Elizabeth Oakes Smith

   Published: 7/8/2024
5. La Mutine: Gender and France's Forced Migration Schemes

   Published: 5/27/2024
6. Red Power Progressivism: A Biography of American Indian Rights Activist Zitkala Ša

   Published: 5/20/2024
7. “Came home in our droves for you”: Abortion in Ireland

   Published: 5/13/2024
8. The Sentimental State: Book Talk

   Published: 5/6/2024
9. The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine

   Published: 3/25/2024
10. Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II

    Published: 3/18/2024
11. From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America

    Published: 3/11/2024
12. The Invisible Engine: Capitalism's Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage

    Published: 3/4/2024
13. Islam and the Frankish “Wall of Ice”: Contingency and the Battle of Tours, or Poitiers, or Whatever…

    Published: 11/27/2023
14. How the Homophile Movement Could Have Been Intersectional and Antiracist, But Wasn’t: Magnus Hirschfeld and Li Shui Tong’s Love and Loss Story

    Published: 11/20/2023
15. Rise and Fall in the Queen City: Contingent Moments in Buffalo, New York

    Published: 11/13/2023
16. Crappy Healthcare is Not Natural: the U.S. Health System is Contingent on a Lot of Bad Decisions

    Published: 11/6/2023
17. Chinese Medicine: The Complex Balance of Individual, State, and Cosmos

    Published: 9/25/2023
18. Puerto Rican Citizenship: A Complex Status

    Published: 9/18/2023
19. Vaudevillian, Countess, Spy, Activist: The Complicated Life of Josephine Baker

    Published: 9/11/2023
20. The History of Fat: The Complex Attitudes Toward Fatness in the Pre-Modern West

    Published: 9/4/2023