Episode 2 of Past Imperfect features Dr. Linda Colley (Princeton University). Colley's The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is a wide-ranging exploration of the development of constitutions, a book which demonstrates how increasingly violent warfare led to the worldwide spread of these documents between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of overdue conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates.
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to launch the first series of its podcast To the Righthouse: “Engaging with human rights scepticism”.
In the style of Paul Harvey and Charles Osgood, Tracing the Path is a podcast that goes deep into history to find the true origins of America's popular culture. This monthly podcast details a different story, with almost always there be connections to previous episodes. Find out how Rand McNally, The Indianapolis 500, South Beach Miami and a cadre of camels are all part of the history of Route 66. The Wizard wouldn't be without the World's Fair, Frank Lloyd Wright and Susan B. Anthony. And even learn how our common alphabet originates with a nursery rhyme in 16th century England.
Reverb Effect is a podcast brought to you by the University of Michigan Department of History. In each episode, historians ask how past voices resonate in the present, and how historians make sense of those voices.
The Received Wisdom is a discussion and interview podcast about how to realize the potential of science and technology by challenging the received wisdom. Join Professors Shobita Parthasarathy and Jack Stilgoe as they talk to thinkers and doers from around the world about governing science and technology to make the world a better place.
The show also includes study questions and additional resources for each episode to make it easy to integrate into curriculums for professors looking to diversify the voices and types of media in their classrooms.
The Graphic Possibilities Podcast is the official podcast of The Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop at Michigan State University. GP is a research workshop in the Department of English at Michigan State University that engages with comics through two interrelated branches, critical inquiry, and engaged pedagogy.
Smart, accessible conversations on big ideas and great books -- ranging from free speech and affirmative action to transformative books, by authors such as Phillis Wheatly, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Waldo Ellison, and many more. Each episode is a deep conversation with a writer, philosopher, artist, or academic.
Rob Denning and Jimmy Fennessy host Working Historians, a podcast series where we interview history professionals about their academic and professional backgrounds, their historical research, and, generally, what they do all day. Season 1 lasted for four years, and then Rob put the show on haitus, but we're coming back for Season 2, which will be bigger and better than ever. In the trailer for Season 2, Rob and Jimmy share what they hope to do in upcoming episodes. New full episodes will resume in May or June.
Podcasts of Interest to Latin Americanists to April 15, 2021
History Extra Podcast
Matthew Restall, The Maya: Everything you wanted to know:
