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Reverb Effect

By: University of Michigan Department of History
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  • Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.
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Episodes
  • Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924

    Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924
    Apr 4 2024

    One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”
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    24 mins
  • Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground

    Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground
    Feb 20 2024

    Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?
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    35 mins
  • Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart
    Dec 20 2023

    Join Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777 as he waits, in an aristocrat’s antechamber in Munich, for a conversation that could change his life. What did it mean to wait in the past? Who waited? How did it shape society and culture, and how did it define social interactions?
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    34 mins
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