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An Incomplete History

Written by: Geoffrey West and Hilary Coulson
  • Summary

  • This is a weekly podcast hosted by two early career PhDs - Hilary and Geoff. Join them as they discuss and debate contemporary and historical events and seek to provide context. The two cover history and historical memory as well as public history and the unique challenges facing history educators in the 21st century.
    © 2019 an incomplete history
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Episodes
  • Episode 58 - The Fourteenth Amendment
    Jan 22 2024

    We are back!

    Here is our 58 episode. We promise to get new epsiodes out at least every other week.

    This week we're discussing the 14th Amendement. It has been in the news lately and we felt everyone could benefit from a bit of context.

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    59 mins
  • Episode 57 - The Supreme Court After 1898
    Jan 31 2023

    Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade, Loving v Virginia - Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century have affected the lives of Americans in a myriad of ways. There were repudiations of prior decisions and expansions of how Constitutional protections were understood. There were unanimous decisions and ones more fraught with dissension in the court. Join us for this episode as we touch on a few of the most important decisions.  

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    1 hr
  • Episode 56 - The US Supreme Court from Taney to Plessy v Ferguson
    Oct 25 2022

    Welcome to part two of our three-part series on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. In this episode we discuss the Taney court (1836-1864) through the Fuller court (1888-1910). We break down two of the most landmark decisions of these courts with a discussion of Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857) and Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896). Join us for a discussion of judicial overreach, precursors to Civil War, and the codification of racial segregation in the Jim Crow era.

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    1 hr and 3 mins

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