INFORMED BY HISTORY: Religion and Government, Episode 2 -

In this episode, Jeffrey Powell, Special Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Oakland University Department of History will help us understand the relationships between religion and government in Colonial America. We start around the time of the Protestant Reformation, move through to Colonial North America and then show how burgeoning Democracy started to change the relationships.

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Religion in Colonial America

INFORMED BY HISTORY: Religion and Government, Part 1 -

We are starting off with a contemporary view from reverend Myra Moreland, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Troy, Michigan. Christianity is about inclusion and spirituality and definitely NOT about exclusion or using the cover of religion to try to legitimize political goals and actions.



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Religion and Government - Reverend Myra Moreland 

INFORMED BY HISTORY: Religion and Government, Episode 1 -

We are starting off with a contemporary view from reverend Myra Moreland, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Troy, Michigan. Christianity is about inclusion and spirituality and definitely NOT about exclusion or using the cover of religion to try to legitimize political goals and actions.



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Trailer 2

"Informed By History" format is added along with "Glimpses of History" format.

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IT HAPPENED! is Evolving

"Informed By History" EPISODE 1

We are starting off with a contemporary view from reverend Myra Moreland, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Troy, Michigan. Christianity is about inclusion and spirituality and definitely NOT about exclusion or using the cover of religion to try to legitimize political goals and actions.



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Erin Austin Dwyer, Associate Professor, Oakland University Department of History is our guest on this episode. Professor Dwyer gives us a glimpse of her new book, Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States. The book will be available October, 2021.  Find out more  at  publisher University of Pennsylvania Press [https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16247.html] 

Some other books recommended by Professor Dwyer during the podcast are:

The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions     By William M. Reddy

The Cooking Gene:  A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South     By Michael W. Twitty

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s sack, a Black Family Keepsake     By Tiya Miles

Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells     By Michelle Duster

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The Emotional Politics of Slavery

Professor Jeffrey Powell, Oakland University Department of History, provides a glimpse of early 20th century eugenics and social Darwinism surrounding the Supreme Court case of Buck vs. Bell. For more information on the topics of this podcast, try “War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race”  —  Edwin Black “War on the Weak: Eugenics in America”   (video documentary) “Birth-Control Politics in the United States, 1916 -1945”  —  Carole R. McCann “Buck Vs. Bell” - Article in the Encyclopedia of American History, Volume 7  —   Jeffrey Powell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alan-partington1/message

Eugenic Sterilization and Buck v. Bell

There's is much more to history and anthropology research than just reading.  Many times we would like answers to questions for which written records don't exist. On this episode, we talk with Dr. George Milne, Associate Professor of History, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Jon W. Carroll about GIS and other technical tools used in their research.



For additional reading by Professors Milne and Carroll  try-- 

https://oakland.edu/history/faculty-staff/george-milne

https://oakland.edu/socan/top-links/faculty/carroll     



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There's No Written Record. Now What?

Sean Farrell Moran is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Oakland University specializing in Modern Britain, Ireland, History of Ideas, 20th-Century Europe.   He is the author of "Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916". https://vurbl.com/station/49BGdftSxv3/ On this episode Professor Moran gives us a brief glimpse into his research and writings on Patrick Pearse. Other books mentioned by Professor Moran in this episode are:    "Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure" by Ruth Dudley Edwards    "Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary" by Joost Augusteijn    "Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal" by Brian P. Murphy    "Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion" by Charles Townshend 



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Poet, Dreamer, Revolutionary

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Alexander Noonan.   Dr. Noonan is a cultural historian of American foreign relations studying how non-material forces such as memory, perception and emotion shape issues of diplomacy, war etc. In particular, his research examines relationships between trans-national anarchist terrorism, American foreign relations and security in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  On this episode, he gives a glimpse into the anarchists and assassins of this era.

For additional reading, Dr Noonan recommends these two books

- The Day Wallstreet Exploded - A Story of America in its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage (2009)

- The Battle Against Terrorism - An International History, 1878 to 1934 by Richard Bach Jensen (2013)





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Anarchists and Assassins

The faculty of the Oakland University Department of History possess a deep knowledge of the broad range of the human record. Each episode in this series presents a brief glimpse into some aspect of this history. Listen with us and let’s find out together..... Where, When, Why and How…..IT HAPPENED

IT HAPPENED - Glimpses of History