Hagley History Hangout

Hagley History Hangout

Hagley Museum and Library

Episodes 221
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.6 (9)
Since Oct 2014
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Consistency
79%
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Recent Episodes

International Geophysics in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939 with Erik Isberg

May 25, 2026 27m

Geophysics, or the study of Earth using the tools and methods of physics, is often understood to have begun in the post-WWII period. However, the period between the world wars saw ferment and…

Postindustrial Heritagization: Serra do Navio, Brazil and Bethlehem, PA with Julia Silva de Medeiros

May 10, 2026 20m

What happens when industrial towns lose their defining industries? How do the remaining communities and infrastructures find meaning and a future among the postindustrial remains. The key often lies…

Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman with Simon Cordery

Apr 27, 2026 48m

Iowa State University historian Simon Cordery talks about his recently published biography of Albert Pullman with Hagley’s Ben Spohn. From the publisher: “Simon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur…

IBM and Third World Modernities with André Dao

Apr 13, 2026 26m

The overtly intimate relationship between tech industry leaders and politicians is on frequent display in newspapers and on screens today. In an international context, this builds on a long history…

Black Women’s Health and Diet Culture in America, 1965-1990 with Melina Haberl

Mar 30, 2026 11m

The mid-twentieth century emergence of the black middle class in the United States reshaped American society, consumer markets, and even the bodies of African Americans. In her dissertation project,…

Black Power Inc.: Corporate America and Multinational Empowerment Politics with Jessica Ann Levy

Mar 16, 2026 40m

In her new book, Black Power Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics Jessica Ann Levy traces Black empowerment’s rise in 20th century American politics and its…

Americans Under the Chinese Communist Triumph: DuPont China, 1947-1950 with Sanjiao Tang

Mar 14, 2026 22m

Americans had established schools, hospitals, and businesses in China prior to the 1949 triumph of the Communists under Mao. What would be the fate of these institutions and their staff under the new…

TV Town II: New York City and Television Industries with Richard Popp

Mar 01, 2026 24m

New York City was the focus of the early American television industry. In TV’s early years NYC had the highest concentration of television sets, viewers, broadcasters, and infrastructure. In NYC many…

Film and American World's Fairs 1893-1964 with Dominique Bregent-Heald

Feb 02, 2026 24m

Film has played a role in America’s world’s fairs since the 1893 Chicago exhibition where a horse galloping was the big cinematic draw. In her latest book project, Dr. Dominique Bregent-Heald,…

Rage! At the Train Station: Long Island Railroad Controversies with Elizabeth Moore

Jan 19, 2026 27m

Infrastructure projects have frequently generated controversies in American history, and railroads in particular have been the cause of many a political fracas. In her latest project, journalist…

Industrious Skies: Nitrogen Capture and the Atmosphere of Italian Fascism with Rebecca Falkoff

Jan 05, 2026 24m

Nitrogen feeds both war and peace, represents both fecundity and strength, and accordingly, nitrogen capture technology gained a symbolic potency in the ideologically charged atmosphere of fascist…

The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions, 1800-1940 with Mark Aldrich

Dec 22, 2025 1h 8m

In this episode we interview Mark Aldrich about his new book, The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800-1940. From the publisher: “A history of the…

Pennsylvania Merchants and American Ginseng in China, 1784-1840 with Audrey Ke Zhao

Dec 08, 2025 19m

Ginseng is the “emperor of plants,” celebrated in traditional Chinese medicine as a sovereign remedy for diverse ailments and promoter of longevity. The introduction of American ginseng to the…

Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with Kimberly Andrews

Nov 24, 2025 24m

From the eighteenth-century Moravians singing hymns on communal farms, to twentieth-century steelworkers laboring in blazing furnaces, to twenty-first century healthcare and warehouse workers cutting…

Care in Question: Childcare Policy and the Limits of 20thC Liberalism with Julia Fournier

Nov 10, 2025 22m

Working parents rely on childcare infrastructure, and as working parent became an ever-larger proportion of the American workforce from the 1960s onward, the lack of accessible, affordable, quality…

Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents with Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Oct 28, 2025 37m

In this episode we interview Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl about her new book Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945. From the publisher: “The first book to…

Chemical Citizenship: A History of Drug Testing in the United States with Laura Browder

Oct 13, 2025 23m

The United States drug tests its citizens more than any other country and ties the rights one enjoys, rights to keep one’s baby, to do one’s job, or to vote or move freely, to the results of a given…

Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry with Denise Sutton

Sep 29, 2025 21m

Innovation plays a role in the beauty and fashion industry as it does in any line of business. New products, new techniques, and new markets animate the industry, and punctuate its history. In her…

An Official History of Official Corporate Histories with Lee McGuigan

Sep 15, 2025 21m

Businesses tell stories about themselves, in their advertising, in their marketing, and in their corporate biographies. Official or authorized histories of corporations form a distinctive thread in…

For an 'Orderly' Globalization: Managed Liberalization in US Labor, 1945-1990 with Melanie Sheehan

Sep 01, 2025 23m

American labor unions struggled to adjust to the changing dynamics of the world economy during the mid-to-late twentieth century. Charting this complex process is Dr. Melanie Sheehan, assistant…

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