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SOURCE: Ricochet
7/24/2020
Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History (Podcast)
Wilentz argues that understanding America’s past—from the inspiring to the shameful—is vital for what he calls informed citizenship.
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SOURCE: KCRW
6/24/2020
Who Owns History? New Book Reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s Pioneer Past
The local history project East of East seeks to amplify the histories of people of color in El Monte, CA.
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SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
6/16/2020
American Spotlight: How Today’s Protests Echo Historical Outrage
In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/9/2020
Trump v Nixon on Race: Why 2020 Isn't Quite 1968
According to Adam Serwer, 1868 is a more apt comparison.
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SOURCE: WAMU
6/5/2020
Historian Eric Foner On The ‘Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction’ (Audio)
In a very prescient interview from 2006, Foner argues that the failed promises of Reconstruction reverberate today.
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SOURCE: World Economic Forum
5/29/2020
Don't Assume There'll be a 'Post-COVID-19 Era' - Historian Niall Ferguson Tells World vs Virus
"I don't think we should assume there'll be a post-COVID-19 era, any more than there's a post-influenza era, or a post-tuberculosis era, or a post-AIDS era," says historian Niall Ferguson.
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SOURCE: CBS News
5/29/2020
Historian on White House Response to COVID: "Clearly, They Have Not Told the Truth"
Historian John Barry, who studied the influenza outbreak of 1918, evaluates the current administration's handling of COVID-19.
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SOURCE: Axios
5/25/2020
Ken Burns: Coronavirus Pandemic Is Crisis "On The Level" Of Civil War And Great Depression (Podcast)
On this podcast, the filmmaker and historian Geoffrey Ward discuss American leadership during moments of crisis.
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SOURCE: WGBH
5/18/2020
Did The South Win The Civil War?
In this podcast, Historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses her new book "How The South Won The Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, And The Continuing Fight For The Soul Of America."
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SOURCE: ABC Radio National
5/17/2020
How Epidemics And Pandemics Have Changed History
This podcast features historians Jo Hays, Frank Snowden, and Elizabeth Fenn in a discussion of the role of infectious disease in history.
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SOURCE: Christianity Today
5/13/2020
What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Recalls About Lynching and Church History
How and why these killings—and Christians’ responses to them—changed over the centuries.
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SOURCE: WBUR
5/6/2020
Who Killed Truth? Historian Jill Lepore Searches For Answers On New Podcast
The Harvard professor explores questions such as, "Where did the idea of a fact as an elemental unit of evidence come from? And then, what forces have undermined that over the years and especially recently?”
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SOURCE: AL.com
5/5/2020
NPR podcast ‘White Lies’ named Pulitzer Prize finalist
The NPR Podcast about the murder of Rev. James Reeb, the Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who traveled to Selma, Ala. to support the fight for black voting rights in the South, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.
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SOURCE: The Academic Minute
4/29/2020
Gentrification and African American History
In this podcast, Melanie Pavich discusses the research and service-learning based courses for undergraduate students she developed centered on the study of African American communities and schools in coastal Georgia.
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SOURCE: Yahoo Finance
4/17/2020
Cadence13 and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Jon Meacham Partner to Produce Documentary Podcast Series for These Times
On Cadence13-directed and produced five-episode podcast docuseries "Hope, Through History," the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned historian Jon Meacham explores five pivotal moments of crisis in American history and how they shaped the nation.
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SOURCE: NPR
4/5/2020
A Historian Looks Ahead At A Transformed Post-Pandemic World
It's changing the way we work, we live, we communicate, what we expect from our governments. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Yuval Noah Harari about what happens once COVID-19 is beaten.
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SOURCE: Dissent
4/2/2020
The Hot & Bothered Podcast: Beyond the New Deal
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
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SOURCE: Forbes
10-11-17
After Finding Success With 'History Hit' Podcast, Dan Snow Turns To Video
The British broadcaster is crowdfunding a new platform called HistoryHit.TV.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
9-30-16
Malcolm Gladwell's “Revisionist History” podcast cleanses history of the past
by Allison Miller
Empathy is the essence of academic historical methodology today. But in the episodes of Revisionist History that actually deal with history, people of the past come across as basically the same as we are today.