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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.

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

2026/08/15

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.

Civil Rights Movement: Emmett Till's Casket

2026/08/15

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.

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

2026/08/15

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.

Civil Rights Movement: Dressing for Desegregation--Carlotta’s First Day Skirt Set

2026/08/15

Rachel Lowell explores a vital part of a vital first day of school--the outfit worn by fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls in Little Rock, Arkansas, ain 1957 s she bravely led the way for school desegregation. What can a girl's outfit tell us about social lives in a pivotal moment of history? Tune in!

Holidays: 1862 Reproduction C.S. Richmond Musket and New Years.

2025/07/28

Katelin Staton takes us along the story of a New Year's Eve tradition in Cherryville, North Carolina--firing off a reproduction Civil War musket. Come along to hear about tipsy mummers and nineteenth-century firearms.

Holidays: Corned Beef and Cabbage

2025/07/28

In this season's second episode about St. Patrick's Day, Nick Shelley shares a family recipe for Corned Beef and Cabbage. This classic holiday nosh tells us more about the resilience of immigrants in America than the rolling hills of Éire.

Holidays: Mardi Gras Souvenir Coin

2025/07/28

With a small souvenir coin, Madeline Rorie takes us back to the early days of America's most libertine holiday: Mardi Gras!

Holidays: A Haymarket Gallows Pin

2025/07/28

Matthew Parker unpacks the story and meaning behind a rather dark holiday object--a small pin shaped like a a gallows, created in support of those unfairly convinced in the Haymarket Affair of 1886. In doing so, he introduces us to the once-radical history of Labor Day.

Holidays: Thomas Kincade Special Edition Snow Globe

2025/07/28

Patrick McGovern's episode taps into the feeling of Christmas. . .and then historicizes it! He connects the creation of a now-kitsch item--the snow globe--to the hobby of collecting and the honing of a Gilded-Age Christmas aesthetic still resonant in our lives.

Holidays: Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

2025/07/28

John Keyser's contribution to the "Holidays" season offers a story of human perception of time in the service of technology rife with fascinating material details of a very familiar object: the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball. Tune in to find out why we drop the ball to celebrate a passing year!

Holidays: 1962 MLK Jr Vinyl Record

2025/07/28

Chandler Hicks offers a thematically consistent episode about a vinyl recording of a Martin Luther King, Jr., speech delivered to members of the District 65 Distributive Workers of America union. Marrying form and content, Hicks uses this record to discuss King's legacy in relation to Martin Luther King Jr., holiday.

Holidays: Lunar New Year, 1912

2025/07/28

Haedyn Brewer delves deep into a 1912 Wells Fargo Chinese Lunar New Year Calendar. This podcast takes you on a global journey of immigration, geopolitical negotiations, and the financial settlement of the (former) Wild West.

Holidays: Bagpipes and St. Patrick's Day

2025/07/28

Brylie Branham taps into her Irish-American heritage to analyze a set of Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes, or in Irish, Piob Mhór(Pee-ob Mor). Tune in to learn what the material aspects of these music makers have to do with St. Patrick's Day and Irish American celebrations!

The Great Depression: Mickey Mouse Sewing Pattern

2024/08/26

UNCW Graduate Student (and Object Project veteran) Melissa Howdershelt takes us back to the early days of America's most lovable Mouse. Join us to find out how a modest sewing pattern for a Mickey Mouse doll embodied hope and joy--and keen business sense--during the Great Depression.

The Great Depression: Action Comics #1 (Superman!)

2024/08/26

UNCW graduate student Garrett Gray brings us back to childhood with the very first issue of the Superman Comic Book in 1938. From the labor and production of the object, to its representative meaning, this artifact bridges the gap between the Great Depression and growing international crises.