S3 E2 Introducing ‘AfriWetu’: Buganda Kingdom

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Episode Description: Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father and has spent much of her life split between homes in the Northeast and the South – specifically New Orleans. For more than fifty years, she has been a college professor, a writer, and a lecturer, and her many books have earned her a reputation as an authority on food of the African Diaspora, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the James Beard Foundation. A few years back, Netflix adapted her book, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America , into a 4 part docuseries. And I’m very proud to say that she’s a longtime contributor to Southern Living with a regular column called The Welcome Table. This episode was recorded in the Southern Living Birmingham studios, and Sid and Jessica talked about her mother’s signature mac and cheese, the cast-iron skillet she’d be sure to save if ever her house were on fire, and her dear friend, the late New Orleans chef Leah Chase. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by : Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer/Producer Jeremiah McVay - Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Introducing the latest entry in our podcast collaboration series: a terrific and thoughtful African history podcast called AfriWetu. In this episode, host and producer Mona Nyambura Muchemi explores the history of the East African Kingdom of Buganda with special emphasis on the women of Buganda’s society.

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S3 E10 The Craft of Writing History with Drafting the Past’s Kate Carpenter 41:37

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In this final episode of season 3, we talk with Kate Carpenter, creator and host of the podcast Drafting the Past , which explores the craft of writing history, and researcher of the history of storm chasing in the U.S. We examine the many angles on history writing that Kate explores in her podcast, question what a closer look at this aspect of historians’ work illuminates about the discipline and about the work of history more broadly, and delve into the fascinating history of storm chasing on the Great Plains.…

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S3 E9 Big Asia 23:26

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A Martian lands on Earth, heads to the nearest university’s History Department, and asks the question, “What is Asia?” What kind of response would they get? We explore this question with historian Nile Green, who outlines a forum titled “Big Asia: Rethinking a Region” that appears in the June 2025 issue of the AHR .…

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S3 E8 Teaching the Vietnam War, Fifty Years On 45:55

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Fifty years after the fall of Saigon in April 1975, we investigate the challenges and opportunities of teaching the Vietnam War and the ways that understanding the war has changed. We speak with four contributors to an AHR forum entitled “The Vietnam War Fifty Years On,” published in the March 2025 issue—Thy Phu, David Biggs, Wen-Qing Ngoei, and Jana Lipman. And we pay a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.…

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S3 E7 Archiving Loss, Learning, and Time in the Field 29:13

14 weeks ago29:13

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Historian Lily Pearl Balloffet explores the real, live human relationships we form in the process of doing historical work and how, for her, those vital connections were decisively disrupted in the years of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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S3 E6 AHA 2025 and History Teachers 21:06

18 weeks ago21:06

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In this episode, we revisit AHA 2025 with a focus on history teachers. Daniel sits with Katharina Matro and Megan Porter—both high school history teachers—to talk about AHA sessions geared toward history teaching as well as the AHA 2025 K–16 Content Cohort, which this year focused on the theme of “Resilience in the History Classroom.”…

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S3 E5 Jo Guldi on Text Mining, AI, and Digital History 1:23:30

21 weeks ago1:23:30

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Historian and quantitative methods expert Jo Guldi discusses text mining, AI, and the wider landscape of digital history in this longform conversation. Guldi’s work on these subjects can be found in two recent AHR articles—“The Algorithm: Mapping Long-Term Trends and Short-Term Change at Multiple Scales of Time” published in the June 2022 issue and “The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here” from the June 2024 issue—and in the book The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.…

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S3 BONUS ‘Historians On’: AI in Teaching and Research 51:21

25 weeks ago51:21

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At the 2024 AHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, historian David Trowbridge sat down with a handful of attendees to discuss topics of particular interest to historians in the present moment. In this episode of our new "Historians On" series, David speaks with Katharina Matro, Jeff McClurken, Kalani Craig, Jo Guldi, Johann Neem, Kevin Gannon, and Lauren Tilton on the topic of AI and its implications for history teaching and research.…

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S3 E4 Histories of Resilience 42:51

27 weeks ago42:51

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In December 2024 American Historical Review published its first ever special issue. Titled “Histories of Resilience,” it features almost two dozen scholars from a wide range of fields contributing their research on resilience. In this episode we hear from board of editors members Josh Reid and Cymone Fourshey as they discuss how the issue came together interspersed with cameos from a few of the contributors—Kate Whiteley on the Wiyot Tribe of Northern California, Thaís R. S. de Sant’Ana on migrant workers in Brazil, Tammy Wilks on Kenyan Nubians, and Bob Reinhardt on US communities submerged as part of big dam projects.…

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S3 E3 ‘AfriWetu’: Dihya Al Kahina 51:43

31 weeks ago51:43

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In this second installment from our collaboration with African history podcast AfriWetu , Mona, with the help of guest narrator Nyaguthii, explores the North African legend of Dihya Al Kahina.

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S3 E3 BONUS ‘AfriWetu’ Host Mona Nyambura Muchemi 37:52

31 weeks ago37:52

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A conversation with AfriWetu host and creator Mona Nyambura Muchemi. We talk about the origins of AfriWetu , about her journey as a storyteller and student of African history, and about the state of popular understandings of African history across the continent.

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S3 E2 Introducing ‘AfriWetu’: Buganda Kingdom 51:22

36 weeks ago51:22

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Introducing the latest entry in our podcast collaboration series: a terrific and thoughtful African history podcast called AfriWetu . In this episode, host and producer Mona Nyambura Muchemi explores the history of the East African Kingdom of Buganda with special emphasis on the women of Buganda’s society.…

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S3 E1 A New Welfare History 31:08

40 weeks ago31:08

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What story can be told of the American welfare state when you broaden the view beyond established government programs and official actors? We kick off season 3 with a conversation with historians Salonee Bhaman, Bobby Cervantes, and Salem Elzway on their AHR article “A New Welfare History.”

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Season 2 Epilogue 21:44

50 weeks ago21:44

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Producers Daniel, Matt, and Conor reflect on season 2 and talk history podcasting generally. Plus a preview from Daniel on what’s coming in season 3.

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S2 E10 Environmental Crisis and Recovery 38:16

1 year ago38:16

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Elizabeth Chatterjee examines the dynamics of the climate/food/energy crisis that shook India in the 1970s. And Andrew Highsmith discusses his feature review of three recent books on environmental crisis and recovery in the cities of Flint and Detroit.

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S2 E9 Collaborative History + Revisiting Marion Thompson Wright 45:41

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