Professor Tony Badger (Mellon Professor of History, Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge) explores the differing reactions to external threats to the homeland and why the war did not have the same generational impact in Australia as it did in the US, and assesses the long-term impact of the war on Australian perceptions of both Britain and the United States. Introduced by Professor Timothy Minchin. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

United States History

In Depression and War

Professor Tony Badger (Mellon Professor of History, Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge) talks about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, and how that single event has influenced the way the civil rights movement is remembered. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr

An Early History of U.S. Military Bases in Italy

Richard Young (History, University of Melbourne) on Marvel's 'The 'Nam' and the construction of public memory of the Vietnam War. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Marvel's 'The 'Nam' and Public Memory

Dr Noah Riseman (School of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University) with a comparative analysis of Indigenous service during the Vietnam War between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and Native Americans. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The Vietnam War and Indigenous Service

Steven Antonellos (History, La Trobe University) The fish wars of the 1960s-70s, civil and treaty rights, and how it contributed to national native American activism. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The Fish Wars: Civil Rights and Treaty Terms

Tony Barta (History, La Trobe University) on the work of John Collier, American social reformer and Native American advocate. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

John Collier's Campaign for Indian Land Rights

Visible Soldiers and Barely Visible Slaves

Dr Nick Fischer (History, Monash University) on economy, national security and (conditional) civil rights: Political fetters on the concept of freedom, 1917-2013. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Development of Anti-Communism in the United States

Daniel Fleming (History, University of Newcastle) on American amnesia and the establishment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The Memorialisation of Martin Luther King

Dr Claudia Haake (History, La Trobe University) looks at the arguments against removal in letters written by native Americans in the first half of the nineteenth century. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Arguements Against Removal of Native Americans

Professor Tony Badger (Mellon Professor of History, Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge) delivers a lecture on racial prejudice and the legacy of Martin Luther King. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Who Needs Martin Luther King?

Professor Timothy Minchin (History, La Trobe University) talks to Professor Richard Broome about the history of migration in the United States during the 1960s. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Migration in America in the Mid-1960s

Professor Daniel Richter, head of The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about native land rights. A transcript for this podcast is available at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2008/podcasts/terra-nullius-with-professor-daniel-richter/transcript Copyright 2009 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Terra Nullius - The Empty Land

Podcasts and lectures on the subject of the history of the United States of America.

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