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Recent Guests

Brahim El Guabli
Author of 'Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences'
University of California Press
Episode: Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
Dr. Emilie Connolly
Author of 'Vested Interests, Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States'
Brandeis University
Episode: Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dr. Danielle Alesi
Assistant Professor of History at Nazareth University
Nazareth University
Episode: Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
Theodore Karamanski
Professor at Loyola University in Chicago and author of "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan"
Loyola University Chicago
Episode: Theodore J. Karamanski, "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Jean Pfaelzer
Author of California, a Slave State
Yale University Press
Episode: Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
Amy Bowers Cordalis
Indigenous leader, author of The Water Remembers
Yurok Tribe
Episode: Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)
Jennifer Ott
An environmental historian and executive director at HistoryLink.
HistoryLink
Episode: Jennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This
Dr. Charlotte Macdonald
Professor Emerita at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand
Victoria University of Wellington
Episode: Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Emmy Award-winning writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and professor of constitutional law at City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
City University of New York
Episode: Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)

Hosts

Dr. Miranda Melcher
One of the hosts, who specializes in Native American Studies and has engaging discussions with various authors about their works.
Alex Grey
Host of the Language on the Move Podcast, contributing insights related to Indigenous cultures and languages.

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 134 ratings
  • Armand Lione interview-insanely insensitive

    I’d never heard of this author, I’m Native, live in DC & have worked with the local Indigenous community- the language both he and the interviewer use is ignorant & laced in colonial academic speak. He regularly dismisses the in depth work of Native historians in DC who have indeed thoroughly researched & published on Indigenous Peoples here. No mention of Dr. Gabrielle Tayac or Dr. Elizabeth Rule. A white author & white host discussing Indigenous history! What year is it?!! Listeners beware.

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    Gigi DC
    United States5 months ago
  • Poor audio quality

    A podcast is an audio product. If the sound quality isn't good, it ruins the podcast.

    The June 29 episode host sounds like he was recorded in a bathroom with a tape recorder from the 80s. The guest only sounds somewhat better.

    Since a lot of people listen to podcasts while doing things in an environment, where there is ambient noise, it's important that the podcast have sufficient volume, and that the levels of different speakers are all normalized to the same level.

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    Takoateli
    United States2 years ago
  • Need this now

    I recently read Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s History of indigenous people in US and now am trying to catch up w new scholarship. This podcast has a fantastic range of topics and well done interviews. Good length. As a newcomer I feel so grateful to the information.

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    5
    december calm
    United States2 years ago
  • One of the best

    This is one of the best American Indian History podcasts I’ve found ……great job

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    5
    woodchuck6660
    United States3 years ago
  • College Lectures “On-the-Go” ♥️

    Thanks for the amazing book recs! I love listening to scholars and writers talk about their own work. Passion and research! This podcast feeds my mind, especially since I have been craving the lectures and conversations from my undergrad and grad school classes (way-back-when).

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    audrey e. w.
    United States6 years ago

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Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: Who is getting money for what, when, and who is at least on paper meant to benefit from this?
Treaties offered specific monetary amounts or goods, transitioning to monetary payments in the 1810s, where annuities would be preset, funded by congressional appropriations or trust funds.
Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: How did you end up with this specific topic and decide to write your dissertation and a book on it?
I stumbled upon the existence of trust funds related to Native affairs, which interconnected financial history and Native history in an intriguing way.
Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: Could you introduce yourself a little bit and then tell us how you even got into this topic?
I teach Early American History at Brandeis and this book began as a dissertation at NYU, aiming to explore colonialism's integral role in the capitalist economy of 19th century America.
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: What surprised you most in discovering how continuous this ideology really is?
The persistent framing of deserts as extractive spaces for resources without regard for their unique ecosystems and societal implications.
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: How do these writers imagine deserts not as voids, but as ethical worlds?
They reframe deserts as interconnected, living spaces rich with ethical considerations and interactions between humans and nature.

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