Victor E. History

With Dr. Amber Nickell and Ms. Hollie Marquess

In our first episode of Season 2, Dr. Manamee Guha visits with Amber Nickell and Hollie Marquess about their upcoming study abroad opportunity for FHSU students in Poland.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. We have so many exciting topics to discuss in Season 2!

For more on opportunities from the History Department at Fort Hays State University, visit www.fhsu.edu/history

In our final episode of season one, FHSU graduate student in history, Alison Helget, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss her master’s thesis “‘You Wanna Play Rough?’: The Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbian Partnership in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968.”

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Breckinridge, Sophonisba. New Homes for Old. New York: Harper, 1921.

Chapin, Anna Alice. Greenwich Village. New York: Dood, Mead and Company, 1920.

Lanzillotto, Annie Rachele. L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir. New York: The State University of New York, Excelsior Editions, 2013.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Crawford, Phillip Jr. The Mafia and the Gays. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.

Underwood, Lisa. The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators. Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis Group, 2004.

Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

Colton Wager, graduate student in the on-campus M.A. in History program at Fort Hays State University, and member of the FHSU Rodeo Team, discusses a history of African Americans in the West, African American rodeo in the Jim Crow era, and finally, the inclusion of African Americans into professional Rodeo.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Cartwright, Keith Ryan. Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Flamming, Douglas. African Americans in the West. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009.

Patton, Tracy Owens and Sally M. Schedlock. “Let’s Go, Let’s Show, Let’s Rodeo: African Americans and the History of Rodeo.” The Journal of African American History 96, no. 4 (2011): 503-521.

________. Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism. Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012.

Wallace, Christian. “The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” Texas Monthly, July, 2018.

Wills, Matthew. “Black Cowboys and the History of the Rodeo,” JSTOR Daily, February 11, 2021, https://daily.jstor.org/black-cowboys-and-the-history-of-the-rodeo/.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

In episode seven, we welcome back Chelsea Kiefer, a sophomore history major at Fort Hays State University, to discuss how Britain developed its tea obsession and how that obsession with tea resulted in two wars over Opium fought between Britain and China.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Hanes, William Travis, and Frank Sanello. The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007.

“Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria.” Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria. 1839. https://cyber.harvard.edu/ChinaDragon/lin_xexu.html.

Rose, Sarah. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011.

“Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking), 1842.” USC US-China Institute. Accessed December 03, 2021. https://china.usc.edu/treaty-nanjing-nanking-1842.

“Treaty of Tianjin (Tien-tsin), 1858.” USC US-China Institute. Accessed December 05, 2021. https://china.usc.edu/treaty-tianjin-tien-tsin-1858.

Waley, Arthur. The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. Stanford University Press, 1995.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

In our latest episode, Assistant Professor of History, Prof. Daniel McClure discusses his latest book Winter in America. Join him as he talks to Prof. Manamee Guha about pivotal moments in 20th century American history and its impact, both nationally and globally.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

“At a time when modern-day America’s cultural and political divides are wider than ever, it’s necessary to ask how the nation came to this painful point. In Winter in America, Daniel Robert McClure provides answers. This book frequently makes for uncomfortable reading, but honest reflection on painful facts isn’t supposed to be easy. The past has much to teach us, and Winter in America is an essential guide.”–Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson and The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

“Winter in America is terrific, moving ably between culture and political economy to mount a sophisticated consideration of race and gender within neoliberalism, all while taking the long view, in contrast to so many accounts supposing that 1972 marked the start something fully new. As monuments fall and we have a chance to rethink received wisdom, it offers the reader a journey that is both unpredictable and exciting.”—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness

For more on Dr. McClure and the History Department at FHSU, see: http://www.fhsu.edu/history/faculty-and-staff/Daniel-McClure/