Object Project

About Object Project

The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

Publisher

UNCW Public History

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2019

Latest episode

15 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Civil Rights Movement: Paschal's Restaurant and Bar in Atlanta

   Come along with Aiden Gent while he discusses how one restaurant helped fuel the fight for equal rights! Paschal's Bar and Restaurant provided the space for organizing and the sustenance to keep going against all odds.

2. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Civil Rights Movement: Emmett Till's Casket

   Bella Hrivnak recounts how the choices made by an angry mother to display her son's murdered body contributed to the Civil RIghts Movement. Emmett Till's casket, and the ways in which his body was moved and represented in death are all material factors in the fight for racial equality.

3. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Civil Rights Movement: Screening Activism with an 1958 RCA Victor Deluxe Black and White Television

   Arianna Hilbert breaks down the important role in the Civil Rights Movement of a simple household object: a television set. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as civil rights protests accelerated, this new technology helped spread the message to living rooms across the nation.

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

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Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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