How to Combat Political Misinformation

Sharon McMahon, a former high school government and law teacher on a mission to combat political misinformation by sharing non-partisan facts about the US government, democracy and history. She is the host of the top-rated “Here’s Where It Gets Interesting” podcast, seeking to inspire people to become more well-informed citizens. She spoke with Steve Schmidt, founder of his …

Civil War Memory As A Teaching Tool, Blog, Substack, and Podcast

"We are in the midst of a national reckoning surrounding our collective past. Monuments are coming down and states are passing laws in an attempt to control how some of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history are taught," writes Kevin M. Levin on his Substack, Civil War Memory, which has more than 1,000 subscribers, a …

Why Slender Threads?

A 10-minute podcast in which I explain the rationale behind this blog and accompanying Substack on the Slender Threads of history -- global, national and personal. Click to listen: https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/podcast-6-why-slender-threads

Ask A Presidential Speechwriter

the1a.org on National Public Radio, a podcast: "It’s easy to forget that for every speech delivered by political figures in Washington, a person – or more likely a team of people – put their minds and pens together to write it. What exactly goes into crafting the perfect speech? And in an increasingly polarized political …

Howard Zinn’s ‘People’s History of the US’ Is Now A Movie, and a Podcast on Youtube.com

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. He is most noted for his revisionist A People's History of the United States, which told the country's story "from the bottom up-from the point of view of, and in the words …

My Old History Teacher Explains What Social Studies Teachers Need to Know

How delightful to Google my high school history teacher and up pops a podcast interview with him from 1991. Sarah Maza and Spencer Willard "discuss teacher preparation and and the teaching of European and North American history in American high schools and universities. They count enthusiasm, two-way discourse, and engagement as their best tools to teach students …

How Sports Reflect American History and Culture: A Podcast

Matthew Andrews, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has a special interest in the links between sports and American history and culture. " He is particularly interested in the ways sports both reflect and affect American politics, race and gender identities, and social reform movements. Matt Andrews has …

New Podcasts on Slender Threads of History

I’m trying my hand at podcasting. The first two segments are available for free. Rationale behind the Theme of Slender Threads. To This White Southern Child, the Civil War Seemed Quite Recent Is this a good way to communicate? The concept is that people will be able to “read” (listen) while physically active. I’m a big …

Podcast on Curating Black History at National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC

As museums reopen after the year+-long pandemic closure, The Washington Post in its daily podcast talked to Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. about what it means to interact directly with history. He also discussed the role he and the museum play in reassessing our national history and preserving …

Marcus Garvey: Strong Voice for Black Self-Improvement and Black Nationalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-XjloOKl60 Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in some ways represented the generation of African Americans after Frederick Douglass (1817-1895). Garvey was a Jamaican-born political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Wikipedia. He …