# Kate Masur

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Reconstruction | e4 | Experiments in State Politics

This is free excerpt of Episode 4. To hear the entire series, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstruction Formerly enslaved black Americans held a majority of the seats in South Carolina’s state Legislature in 1868, and no other state elected as many black Americans during the Reconstruction era. …

Episode 102: Gautham Rao Completes Each Vacation with an Archive Trip

In this episode, Kate Carpenter is joined by a scholar who can never pass up a good archive, Dr. Gautham Rao. Gautham is a historian of American law and politics and is an associate professor of history at American University in Washington. He's the author of two books: National Duties: Custom Hous…

Audacy Conversations: The History of the United States

In this series of episodes of Audacy Conversations, Audacy's Dennis Foley speaks with a series of experts about the history of the United States. We first hear from University of Pennsylvania history of education professor Jonathan Zimmerman about how American history is taught across the country, …

The Supreme Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship

In this episode, Richard Epstein and Martha Jones discuss the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Trump v. Barbara, which struck down President Trump’s Executive Order on birthright citizenship. At issue in the case was whether the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born to parents un…

BFW Bonus: We Want More History

American history is in the news a lot these days. We see and hear about fights over monuments, textbooks, and the stories we should include or exclude from our museums and historic markers. What these stories overshadow is the great demand for more history in the United States. A coalition of histo…

Encore: The Age of Jackson | A Nation Divided | 7

The Age of Jackson was a time of intense change and tremendous growth in the United States. But it was not without controversy. In the years leading up to the Civil War, slavery and the rising abolitionist movement divided the country. On this episode, Lindsay speaks with Dr. Kate Masur, a history …

Encore: The Age of Jackson | A Nation Divided | 7

The Age of Jackson was a time of intense change and tremendous growth in the United States. But it was not without controversy. In the years leading up to the Civil War, slavery and the rising abolitionist movement divided the country. On this episode, Lindsay speaks with Dr. Kate Masur, a history …

How Three Escaped Slaves Changed America Forever

On this episode of Our American Stories, in May 1861, three enslaved men, Frank Baker, Shepherd Mallory, and James Townsend, escaped from Confederate labor at Sewell's Point, Virginia, and crossed to Union-held Fort Monroe. When their enslaver demanded their return, General Benjamin Butler faced a …

Ep. 91: Kate Masur on Washington D.C. and Civil Rights Struggles in the 19th Century

Author and scholar Kate Masur joins the podcast to talk about the struggles for equality during the Antebellum and Reconstruction periods. Our conversation focuses on two of Kate’s works: An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C. and Until Justice …