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Episode 32: The Winter in Anna by Reed Karaim

Eric Valery is 20 years old when he drops out of college and finds a job with a newspaper in small-town North Dakota. There’s a full-time staff of three, and one of the three is Anna, a quiet, pretty single mother in her early thirties. “We…

Episode 24: The Unseen World by Liz Moore

The Unseen World begins in the 1980s, in Boston, before the Internet, before e-mail or smart phones, when computers were large and clunky and not yet ubiquitous, and where David Sibelius, computer scientist, is…

328 Alice Baumgartner: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

https://www.alainguillot.com/alice-baumgartner/ Alice Baumgartner's book project, South to Freedom, uses the story of American slaves who escaped to Mexico during the nineteenth century as a lens for understanding Mexico’s rise as an antislavery republic and its overlooked significance to the Unite…

The complicated ties between Mexico, US and slavery unraveled in ‘South to Freedom’

In the book, “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War,” historian Alice Baumgartner examines the U.S. and Mexico’s complicated ties to slavery and how Mexico’s stance on slavery had a major influence on politics to the North.

No. 19 - ChamberBridge Frontiers 2010: New music from Switzerland and the Bay Area

Originally recorded in November 2010, featuring a performance by ChamberBridgeLara Bruckmann, soprano & Eva-Maria Zimmermann, pianorecorded live on May 9, 2010 at Old First Concerts1. Calling the movers by Jason Levis2. a long moment (of pleasure) by Marcel Sägesser3. In eines Spiegels Bläue by Chr…

2021 Book Awards Keynote Roundtable

The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are presented annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. The 2021 winners are Jenn Shapland for My Autobiography of Carson McCullers;  Sarah Stewart Johnson for The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World; and Alice Baumg…

Waiting for Justice

Underground Railroad scholars Gerard Aching and Alice Baumgartner talk to us about the wait for justice. Aching, a professor at Cornell, studies northward movements of people seeking freedom, while Baumgartner studies a less known path of slaves who traveled south to Mexico to escape. In this conve…

Alice Baumgartner about South to Freedom

Alice L. Baumgartner's South to Freedom simultaneously opens its readers eyes up to the largely unknown south-bound Underground Railroad to Mexico and the pivotal role tensions in Texas and Mexico played in exploding sectionalism and leading us into the Civil War. This interview is part 3 of a muli…

From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention

Send us Fan Mail Commemorate California’s 175th anniversary by exploring defining moments that have shaped the Golden State — from its 1850 admission to the Union to today’s tech-fueled transformation. Moderated by historians William Deverell and Elizabeth Logan of USC Dornsife’s Institute on Calif…