Discovery & Inspiration

Latest Episodes
Nancy F. Cott, “Accidental Internationalists: American Journalists Abroad Between the World Wars”
November 21, 2022
This lecture illuminates the field of internation…
Paul S. Sutter, “Public Health and the Panama Canal”
November 07, 2022
When the Panama Canal opened in 1914, it not only
Paul Ushang Ugor, “Socially Responsible Cinema: Femi Odugbemi’s Artistic Vision”
October 31, 2022
For the past twenty years, Nigerian filmmaking ha
Maggie M. Cao, “Imperial Painting: Nineteenth-Century Art and the Making of American Empire”
October 24, 2022
Nineteenth-century American paintings frequently
Howard Chiang, “Psychoanalysis in China”
October 17, 2022
In the early twentieth century, psychoanalytic id
Elizabeth S. Manley, “Imagining the Tropics: Women and Tourism in the Caribbean”
October 11, 2022
Widely understood as a destination for leisure an
Tony Frazier, “Slavery, English Law, and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century”
October 04, 2022
In the 1772 court case Somerset v Stewart, an E
Cara Robertson, “The Trial of Lizzie Borden”
September 29, 2022
Cara Robertson (NHC Trustee; NHC Fellow, 200405;
Joy Connolly, “The Life of Roman Republicanism”
September 29, 2022
Joy Connolly (NHC Trustee), President, American C
Andrew Delbanco, “The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul”
September 29, 2022
Andrew Delbanco (NHC Fellow, 201314), Alexander