ChicagoHamburg30
Episode Archive
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Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian Chicago and the Hamburg-America Line
In this episode, Dominic Pacyga (Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia College Chicago) and Tobias Brinkmann (Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Penn State)...
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Literature of Chicago #2: Richard Wright's Native Son (1940)
In honor of Black History Month, Douglas Cowie and his guest, award-winning novelist Ryan Gattis, discuss a classic novel about Black Chicago, Richard Wright's Native Son.
Published in...
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Black Chicago
February is African-American History Month, and we celebrate the occasion with an episode about Black Chicago with award-winning scholar Dr. Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociolo...
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Literature of Chicago #1: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
In our first episode exploring the literature of Chicago, host Dr. Douglas Cowie and his guest, Dr. Katie McGettigan (Royal Hollow, University of London) discuss one of the first great Chicago n...
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The Rise and Fall of German Chicago: 1865 to WWI (and Beyond)
In our second episode on German Chicago, Andrew Sola and Sebastian Wuepper discuss the continuing growth and then decline of German Chicago, which largely disappeared with America's entry into W...
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The First Germanic Immigrants: 1833 through the Civil War
In our fourth episode, Andrew Sola and Sebastian Wuepper, historian of German immigration, continue telling the story of Chicago history by discussing the first two waves of Germanic migrants to...
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Resistance, Removal, Erasure: Indigenous Chicago in the 19th Century
In our third episode of the series, Andrew Sola and his guests, Dr. Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Ohio State University-Newark) and Dr. Karamanski (Loyola University-Chicago) tell the story o...
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Native Ground: Indigenous Chicago through the War of 1812
In the second episode of the ChicagoHamburg30 podcast series, we meet the original Chicagoans: the Native Americans who first inhabited the region.
Dr. Sola and his expert guests, Dr. Ke...
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Inaugural Episode with Consuls General Michael Ahrens (Chicago) and Jason Chue (Hamburg)
Welcome to the ChicagoHamburg30 podcast series, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City Partnership!
We open our 30-episode series with two distinguished g...
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Chicago-Hamburg 30 Teaser
The year 2024 marks the 30-year anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City Partnership. Join us in celebrating the special relationship with this 30-episode podcast series about the history...