With a focus on material culture, this episode explores humanity's enduring fascination with eclipses through the stories of four objects that span an array of geographical regions and historical time periods.

Space Oddities: Solar Eclipses in Art and Culture

In this episode, Jason M. Kelly and Ray Haberski sit down and reflect on the first season of the podcast. They consider the theme of Justice and War as well as the future of the humanities. 

Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

Reflections on Season 1

Host: Ray Haberski
Guests: Cliff Morlan and Jennifer Manning
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

 * Vietnam Echoes | Coming Home. PBS, 2017. https://www.pbs.org/video/coming-home-fpwmje/.
 * Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979840

Coming Home (Part 2)

In this first half of a two-part episode, Ray chats with Todd Shelton and Jordan Hansen whose reflections on their military service shed light on the experience of coming home. 

Host: Ray Haberski
Guests: Todd Shelton and Jordan Hansen
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

 * Vietnam Echoes | Coming Home. PBS, 2017. https://www.pbs.org/video/coming-home-fpwmje/.
 * Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979840

Coming Home (Part 1)

In this episode, we discuss the intersection of racism and the experience of war. We look at the history of empire, DEI efforts in the military, and the ways that Critical Race Theory offers insights for understanding the history of institutional racism. 

Guests: Leah Nahmias and Cleveland Hayes
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

 * Du Bois, W. E. B. “Credo [https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b227-i010].” In Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
 * King Jr., Martin Luther King. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” Riverside Church [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhgXKGldUk], New York City, April 4, 1967. Transcription at American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm)
 * Ture, Kwame [born Stokely Carmichael]. "Black Power Speech at University of California, Berkeley [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifH5X9dYzG8&t=2s]." 29 October 1966. Transcription at the US Oratory Project (https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/carmichael-black-power-speech-text/).

 Race, Justice, and the Experience of War

Host: Jason M. Kelly
Guests: Leah Nahmias and Elliott Nowacky
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

In this bonus episode, Jason talks with Elliott Nowacky and Leah Nahmias about Elliott's experience in the Family Readiness Program, which is a system that supports military families during deployment.

The Family Readiness Program

Host: Jason M. Kelly
Guests: Amy Rutenburg and Heather Stur
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

In this episode, Jason sits down with Amy Rutenburg and Heather Stur to discuss how the history of gender and war are interrelated over the course of 20th-century U.S. History.

Gender and the Experience of War

Host: Jason M. Kelly

Guests: Leah Nahmias and Elliott Nowacky

Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

In this episode, Jason sits down with Leah Nahmias and Elliott Nowacky to discuss the experience of women in the Spanish-American and Vietnam Wars. This is the first of three episodes focused on gender and the experience of war.

Readings:

 * Halsted, Carolyn. “War and Women: Patriotic Attitude of the National Organization.” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1898.
 * Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) International Congress: Vietnam Visit, 1971. http://archive.org/details/AudiotapeReel003401.
 * Janis Alyce Nark. Interview with Janis Alyce Nark. Roaring Fork Veterans History Project, October 22, 2009. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.70597/.

Women and the Experience of War

In this episode, we talk about Mark Twain's "War Prayer," a powerful exposition on the intersection of war, patriotism, and religion in U.S. culture. 

Host: Ray Haberski
Guests: Jordan Hansen and Jennifer Manning
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

 * Twain, Mark. "The War Prayer" (ca.1904-5). The American Yawp Reader. https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-empire/mark-twain-the-war-prayer-ca-1904-5/

Mark Twain's War Prayer

Host: Jason M. Kelly
Guests: Brody Hogan, Jennifer Manning, and Todd Shelton
Audio Engineers: Jason M. Kelly and Kelly Kerr

 * Anti-imperialist League. “Soldier’s Letters. Reprinted in Philip S. Foner and Richard Winchester, The Anti-Imperialist Reader: A Documentary History of Anti-Imperialism in the United States, Vol. 1 (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1984), 316–323.,” 1899.
   https://shshistory.com/extra%20pages/Class%20Readings/letters%20from%20the%20homefront%20from%20the%20Philipinnes.pdf
   
 * Baker, Mark. Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. Berkley, 1986.
   
 * Tram, Dang Thuy. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War (Excerpts). Translated by Andrew X. Pham. Rider, 2009.
   https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2007summer/diaries.html
   

This program has been made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Soldiers’ Letters and Personal Accounts

War is among the most consistent aspects of U.S. history. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it has always been hotly contested. Despite this, it is not often that Americans come together to discuss the history and experience of war. This podcast puts veterans, active service members, citizens, and scholars in conversation about the ways that the experience of war has shaped and been shaped by Americans’ concepts of justice.

This podcast has been generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Justice and War in American History

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