Welcome to the Reuther Library's podcast archive. They are arranged by publication date with the most recent on top and the oldest at the bottom.
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This Union Cause: The Queer History of the United Automobile Workers
Posted June 15th, 2020 by teller
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Wayne State history PhD candidate James McQuaid discusses his research on the gradual cognizance and acceptance of queer autoworkers in the twentieth century, leading toward the UAW’s rapid embrace of LGBTQ-friendly policies and initiatives in the 1990s. read more »
[Podcast] Race and Rebellion: Reexamining the Unlearned Lessons of the Kerner Report a Half Century Later
Posted June 8th, 2020 by teller
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- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century
- Cavanagh, Jerome P.
- Civil rights--America
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations--20th century
- Detroit--race relations
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Minorities--Civil rights
- Police-community relations
- Quality of work life
- Race riots
- Racism
Reuther Library outreach archivist Meghan Courtney discusses the conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Commission report in the context of today’s protests over race relations and police brutality. read more »
[Podcast] Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work: Black-Owned Businesses and the Housewives League of Detroit
Posted May 20th, 2020 by teller
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Allie Penn explains how her work on a grant-funded digitization project introduced her to the Housewives League of Detroit and led to a digital humanities project mapping Detroit Black-owned businesses from the 1930s through 1950s. read more »
Creating that “A-Ha!” Moment: Using Archives and Primary Sources to Inspire Active Learning in the Classroom
Posted April 28th, 2020 by teller
Outreach archivist Meghan Courtney discusses the Reuther Library’s efforts to extend primary source instruction beyond history classes to inspire active learning in the classroom and empower students to become part of scholarly conversations. read more »
Poorly Described Folders and Human Hair: Processing Report with ALUA Archivist Shae Rafferty
Posted April 16th, 2020 by teller
Shae Rafferty, the Reuther Library’s Labor and Urban Affairs Archivist, explains what happens behind the scenes to get donated collections ready for researchers. She discusses how collections are prioritized for processing, or organizing and describing them to make it easier for researchers to find the information they’re looking for. read more »
