ASHP Podcast

In the second episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with psychotherapist, teacher, and activist, Michelle Esther O’Brien. We discuss the work Michelle has put in coordinating the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories. Making Queer History Public is sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant. Learn more about the NYC Trans Oral History Project, and access their archive, here. Listen to an interview with Michelle O’Brien on oral history methodology here. You can find out more about Michelle’s work here, and support her on Patreon @meobrien.Check out Miss Major's full interview here: https://nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/miss-major/To learn more about Miss Major, take a look at her website: https://missmajor.net/Check out B. Hawks Snipes' full interview here: https://nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/b-hawk-snipes/Follow B. Hawks Snipes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhawksnipes/?hl=en Find other LGBTQ+ archives and oral history projects in the NYC region:Lesbian Herstory Archives and Lesbian Elders Oral Herstory Project (Brooklyn, NY)LGBT Community Center National History Archives (New York, NY)Fales Collection at New York University (New York, NY)Princeton LGBTQIA Oral History Project (Princeton, NJ)Queer Newark Oral History Project (Newark, NJ)New York Public Library’s LGBTQ Initiative (New York, NY)ACT UP Oral History Project (New York, NY) Cherry Grove Archives Collection (Long Island, NY)LaGuardia and Wagner Archives LGBTQ Collection (Queens, NY) Follow Making Queer History Public on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or Google Play. Follow the American Social History Project on Twitter at @ASHP_CML Keep up to date with the American Social History Project by signing up for our newsletter here!Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Let us know at [email protected]

In this presentation, photography historian Deborah Willis, and historian Barbara Krauthamer discuss the use of portrait photography as historical evidence. Together they examine several photographs of African Americans in the era of the U.S. Civil War, before and after emancipation; and analyze the evidence in the images in terms of the fundamental influence of African Americans, particularly African-American women, in shaping our understanding of this period of American history.

Lisandro Pérez, John Jay CollegeCUNY Graduate Center, February 7, 2014In this lecture, Lisandro Pérez unpacks the long, distinct, and prolific history of Cuban Americans and their history’s close correlation with U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He uses census materials, forms, archives, city directories, naturalization records, vital records, newspapers, and magazines spanning over 200 years to reconstruct the Cuban community politically and socially in New York City, and explains the reasons for the “Cuban exception.” This talk took place at the CUNY Graduate Center on February 7, 2014.

Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst“The Vietnam War: What Are We Fighting For?”The Paley Center for MediaMay 14, 2008Christian G. Appy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), historian and author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides, shares the historical insights gleaned from his investigation of the Vietnam War from American and Vietnamese perspectives. His extensive research, which involved hundreds of oral history interviews with American veterans as well as Vietnamese civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, adds an important dimension to the staggering human cost of the war. In this lecture to New York City teachers, he relates some of the stories he heard in the course of his research, and provides evidence for his conclusion that the outcome of the war was determined largely by the political will of the Vietnamese people.

Herbert Sloan, Barnard CollegeA Living ConstitutionDecember 13, 2010Legal historian Herbert Sloan argues against the theory of originalism in making the case for a “Living Constitution.” Sloan cites the lack of evidence from the Constitutional framers themselves to explain the difficulty of determining with any certainty their “original intent.” He also documents the belief of at least some framers that the Constitution would have to change and grow to accommodate new challenges and circumstances. Sloan follows up with a discussion of landmark Supreme Court cases that illustrate the need for a Living Constitution and explains why Thomas Jefferson, who was in France during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, believed that the Constitution should be rewritten every nineteen years.