Sam Tanenhaus joins me for a deep dive into the college career of friend of the pod, William F. Buckley Jr., and his 1951 shot that fired the campus wars: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."

References mentioned this episode:

• Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.
• Sam Tanenhaus. 1998. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Penguin Random House. (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize!)
• Heather Hendershot. 2016. Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. HarperCollins.
• Beverly Gage. 2022. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Viking. (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and LA Times Book Prize!)
• Stendhal. 1839. The Charterhouse of Parma.
• Norman Mailer. November 1960. “Superman comes to the supermarket.” Esquire.

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How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.

References mentioned this episode:

• Elyse Graham. 2024. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Harper Collins.
• Elyse Graham’s website
• Elyse Graham’s Bluesky
• Michelle Young. 2025. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland. Harper Collins.

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Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of Howard University law school, diplomat, and a celebrated intellectual of the Reconstruction era. Christian K. Anderson takes us through Greener's remarkable career in academia and international politics.

Links to references in the episode:

• Christian Anderson. 2022. The forgotten impact of Harvard’s first Black graduate. Washington Post.
• Christian Anderson. 2020. What should replace Confederate statues? The Conversation.
• Katherine Reynolds Chaddock. 2017. Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry. 2021. Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press.
• Eric Foner. 2014. Reconstruction, Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
• W. E. B. DuBois. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880.
• Javier Cercas. 2007. The Speed of Light: A Novel. Bloomsbury.
• Chip Kidd. 2008. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters. Harper Perennial.
• Chip Kidd. 2009. The Learners. Harper Perennial.
• The Milgram Experiment
• Richard T. Greener website
• Christian Anderson’s website: christiankanderson.com
• Christian Anderson on Bluesky: @profgamecock

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Check out my interview with Sasha Lilley for Against the Grain podcast. We talk about Resistance from the Right, which you can grab a copy of here.

References mentioned this episode:

• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. 2023. Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. University of North Carolina Press.

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We're headed South with Kate Ballantyne to talk about the Old Left! Plus, Kate's tips for conducting archival research.

To join the student activism researchers Google group, send me an email: shephell@iu.edu.

References mentioned this episode:

• Katherine J. Ballantyne. 2024. Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee. University of Georgia Press.
• Harriet Constable. 2024. The Instrumentalist. Simon & Schuster.
• Mona Awad. 2020. Bunny: A Novel. Penguin.
• Bluesky: @kateballantyne.bsky.social

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From the conception of ROTC after the Spanish-American War, colleges and K12 schools have been central to US military recruitment efforts. Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner explain the history of school militarism, and how peace groups have tried to break the war habit in American education.

References mentioned this episode:

• Scott Harding, Charles Howlett and Seth Kershner. 2022. Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education. University of Georgia Press.
• DoD STARBASE: A Department of Defense Youth Program school map.
• Aditi Lamba. February 10, 2025. “Kansas Starbase STEM program temporarily shut down.” KSN-TV.

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Is the Title IX process working as intended? Nicole Bedera tells us what's working, what isn't, and what we can do about it.

References mentioned this episode:

• Nicole Bedera. 2024. On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators
  and Betray Survivors of Sexual Assault. University of California Press.
• Classroom resources to accompany On the Wrong Side
• Nicole Bedera’s website

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On today’s episode, we’re covering the history and purposes of the first American research universities, Indian boarding schools, and Historically Black Colleges, all of which emerged at the same time in US history.

References mentioned this episode:

• Eve L. Ewing. 2025. The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. Penguin Random House.
• Will Guidara. 2022. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect. Penguin Random House.
• James McBride. 2023. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. Riverhead Books.
• Build Coffee and Books in Chicago
• Substack @eveewing
• Instagram @eve.ewing
• Bluesky @eveewing.bsky.social
• Exceptional X-men

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