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March 27, 2025

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Season 4 Discussion Questions

  Episode 53: "By Being Almost Murdered" What is material culture? Why can letters be a good source to use when telling women’s history? What do we know about Konwatsi'tsiaienni Molly Brant and Daniel Claus? How might that influen…

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March 1, 2025

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Season 3 Discussion Questions

  Episode 43: "That B**** Maria Goodwin" Why can letters be a good source to use when telling women’s history? What do we know about Sarah E. Nicholas and Jane H. Nicholas Randolph? How might this context influence the way we inter…

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Jan. 1, 2025

Antisemitism, U.S.A. Discussion Questions

  Episode 1: “No Sanction to Bigotry” How does antisemitism differ from prejudices against other groups? Where does the episode title, "No Sanction to Bigotry," come from and what is its significance? What barriers to natura…

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Nov. 19, 2024

R2 Studios Receives Dr. Scholl Foundation Grant

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that R2 Studios has received a $10,000 grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation to advance the studio’s mission to democratize access to history thr…

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Aug. 29, 2024

August 29, 2024 News, R2 Studios Coming This Winter: Finding Jane Austen Podcast

250 years after her birth, Jane Austen remains a giant in the cultural zeitgeist. Her works have been adapted hundreds of times over multiple mediums, and she remains one of the most popular writers in the English language. Yet little is known about…

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July 11, 2024

Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History Podcast

Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History podcast from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and R2 Studios The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is excited to annou…

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May 10, 2024

Antisemitism, U.S.A. Podcast Receives Generous Support from the David Bruce Smith Foundation

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that R2 Studios has received a $50,000 gift from the David Bruce Smith Foundation to support Antisemitism, U.S.A., our forthcoming narrative podcast s…

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May 4, 2024

The McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that Siena College’s  McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution has generously invested $3,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down. Worlds Turned U…

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April 16, 2024

RRCHNM Receives NEH Grant to Support Worlds Turned Upside Down Podcast

R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that Jim Ambuske, Jeanette Patrick, and Mills Kelly have been awarded $272,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of our lates…

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Feb. 20, 2024

The End of Our Hike

Every hike has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some are short, some are long. In the case of the Appalachian Trail, one of those hikes can last less than an hour, or it can stretch almost 2,200 miles. On October 5, 2021, the team at RRCHNM&rs…

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Dec. 14, 2023

The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down

The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) has generously invested $10,000 in support of our latest pod…

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Dec. 5, 2023

The Powder Horn Map

Edward Cogswell was never meant to appear in Worlds Turned Upside Down. The drummer, who enlisted in Captain Canfield’s Company of the 4th Connecticut Regiment on March 31, 1758, was a soldier I’d never heard of when I sat down to write…

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Nov. 21, 2023

Worlds Turned Upside Down Receives Funding from Virginia’s 250 Commission

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission has generously awarded $10,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down. Worlds Turned Upside Down tel…

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Oct. 26, 2023

Accounting for the Seven Years’ War in North America

How many people served in North America during the Seven Years’ War? As it turns out, that’s a much harder question to answer than you might think. In “The Nadir,” the second episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down, we wanted t…

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Sept. 26, 2023

Revolutionary Beginnings

We all know how the American Revolution ends, but do we really understand its beginnings? In the mid-1750s, far from Philadelphia, New York, Boston, or Charleston, and farther still from London, Paris, or Madrid, the choices made by British settler…

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May 15, 2023

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant joins the R2 Studios Network

R2 Studios and historian Kathryn Gehred are excited to announce a new partnership that will bring the highly-rated podcast series Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant to the R2 Studios network.  Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant …

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Feb. 16, 2023

Production Now Underway For Worlds Turned Upside Down

R2 Studios and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media are excited to announce that production is underway for Worlds Turned Upside Down. This new podcast series tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis a…

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Oct. 4, 2022

R2 Studios Launches Season 2 of The Green Tunnel Podcast

Season Two of The Green Tunnel podcast, produced here at R2 Studios, launched today. In this season we will be focused on the larger question of who the Appalachian Trail is for and will come at that question from a variety of directi…

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Sept. 15, 2022

R2 Studios Receives Grant for Podcast on History of American Antisemitism

R2 Studios and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) are excited to announce that Jeanette Patrick, John Turner, and Lincoln Mullen have been awarded $50,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin work on a pod…

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Sept. 28, 2020

Consolation Prize — a New Podcast From RRCHNM

When you think of the most exciting, controversial, or salacious moments in American history, your first thought probably isn’t the story of a U.S. consul. Consuls were charged by the U.S. State Department with reporting American trade in ci…

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