American Campus Podcast
on the social and political history of higher education
Podcasting since 2024 • 28 episodes
American Campus Podcast
Latest Episodes
Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni
The college dormitory is an American tradition, though it hasn’t always been necessary for education. Carla Yanni tells us why the dorm has become a feature of campus architecture since the 17th century.References mentioned this episode:...
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Cloud capitalists and higher education's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
Matt Seybold takes us back to the 19th century literary world. We discuss Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Drawing parallels from ...
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The 20th century medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
On the medical school building boom of the early 20th century (1890-1940), and what it can tell us about the professionalization of academic medicineMentioned this episode:Katherine L. Carroll. 2022.
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