
American Campus Podcast
on the social and political history of higher education
Podcasting since 2024 • 40 episodes
American Campus Podcast
Latest Episodes
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus joins me for a deep dive into the college career of friend of the pod, William F. Buckley Jr., and his 1951 shot that fired the campus wars: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."Reference...
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The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.References mentioned this episode:Elyse Graham. 2024.
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25:39

Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of Howard University law school, diplomat, and a celebrated intellectual of the Reconstruction era. Christian K. Anderso...
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