American History Untucked 008 -- Lil Fenn

06/02/14 • -1 min

My guest this week is Elizabeth (Lil) Fenn, Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado - Boulder. We discussed her 2001 book Pox Americana and her new history of the Mandan Indians, Encounters at the Heart of the World. We also discussed her career as an auto mechanic during a hiatus in her academic career.

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American History Untucked 007 -- Chris Cameron

My guest for this show is Chris Cameron, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. We discussed his autobiography The Many Lives of Chris Cameron, his research on African American abolitionists (soon to be published as To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement), and his current research.

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American History Untucked 009 -- Rebecca Onion

My guest this week is Rebecca Onion, author of Slate's The Vault blog and historian of childhood and science.
For those of you who haven't looked at The Vault, here are some of my favorite gems (the latter two of which we discuss in the show):