Category: Podcasts
Podcast: Hattie McDaniel’s Role As Maid in “Song of the South” and “Gone With the Wind”-Episode 2
The second installment of Six Degrees of Song of the South is out. It looks at Hattie McDaniel, the first black actor to win an…
Videos from CUNY Conference on Abolitionism
In 2014, the CUNY Graduate Center organized an academic conference on the Abolitionist Movement. Some of the top scholars in the field particpated. The first…
Listen to Keith Harris, The Rogue Historian, Interview Pat Young on Blogging the Civil War and Reconstruction
Last week I was interviewed by The Rogue Historian himself, Dr. Keith Harris, about blogging the Civil War and Reconstruction. If you like lively conversation…
Podcast: Francis Lieber, German Immigrant, Develops Laws of War During Civil War & Reconstruction
Here is an interesting discussion about Francis Lieber, the German immigrant law professor who developed the laws of war during the Civil War and Reconstruction….
1619 Podcast: Slavery and the Birth of American Music
The 1619 project at the New York Times has another new podcast. This one looks at slavery and the birth of American music. This one…
Podcast from Slate Gabfest on NY Times’s 1619 Slavery Series
The new 1619 Project put out by the New York Times has both been incredibly popular and very controversial. The project observes the 400th Anniversary…
Comedian Adam Conover Interviews Christy Coleman of the American Civil War Museum on Reconstruction
The latest episode of FACTUALLY! hosted by comedian Adam Conover is an interview with Christy Coleman of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond. They…
Podcast: Eric Foner Interviewed on Reconstruction
Here is an interesting podcast of an interview with Eric Foner, the preeminent living scholar of Reconstruction. The sound quality is only OK and the…
Podcast Reenactment of Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” With David Blight
Here is a neat podcast re-enactment of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” delivered in Rochester, NY in…
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