American Campus Podcast

a social and political history of higher education

Podcasting since 2024 • 153 episodes

American Campus Podcast

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The KKK comes to UCLA with Trevor Griffey

References and suggested readings:Trevor Griffey. 2007. “The Strongest Chapter in WA: Bellingham's KKK.” The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project....

August 12, 2026 • 36:54

Country of Lords with Kim Phillips-Fein

An intellectual history of inequality in the US.References and suggested readings:Kim Phillips-Fein. 2026. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech U...

August 09, 2026 • 39:52

Napoleon’s scientific military school comes to the US western border with Sveinn M. Jóhannesson

How Napoleon's École polytechnique inspired A&M universities on the Western US border (ft. some of our favorite topics: American imperialism, science, and social hierarchy)References and suggested readings:Sveinn M. Jóhan...

August 05, 2026 • 20:13

Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America with Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy

A century later, what did Veblen get right?References and suggested readings:Christian J. Churchill and Gerald Levy. 2011. The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, a...

August 02, 2026 • 48:28

History of college grading with Joshua R. Eyler

On class rank, Latin honors, the 4.0 grading scale, and other old traditionsReferences and suggested readings:Joshua R. Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Har...

July 29, 2026 • 25:11

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