Tales from the Reuther Library

Recent Episodes

The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

Posted November 17, 2025 • 00:54:09

Professor Michelle Adams describes the struggles to integrate Detroit’s highly segregated neighborhoods and schools in the 1960s, a federal judge’s...

Remembering the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center

Posted October 30, 2025 • 00:33:57

Dr. Beth Widmaier Capo discusses the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center and the role health practitioners there—including her mother—played...

Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976

Posted October 9, 2025 • 00:39:41

John Miles Branch discusses the National Labor Relations Board’s policy to dismiss union petitions at charitable organizations in the decades following...

Talking Archives with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride

Posted September 25, 2025 • 00:31:11

In celebration of the Reuther Library’s 50th anniversary, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride reflects on the role the union’s history and...

Coach of Champions: D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit’s Track Stars

Posted September 11, 2025 • 00:53:04

Dr. Keith Wunderlich shares the life and legacy of D.L. Holmes, athletic director of what is now Wayne State University from 1917 though 1958. With...