American History Untucked

Sep 10 2015 18 ep. 19
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The show is a conversation about and by American history and American historians. It’s about history, but it’s also about the historian’s background, their experiences, what they’ve learned doing history. It’s about time in the archives, about the writing process, about teaching, doing public history, engaging with all different kinds of audiences. It’s about American historians broadly defined – mostly academic historians, but also archivists, public historians, documentary film makers, and historians outside the ivory tower. It’s about what makes history interesting to us and how we try to share that with our readers, students, and other audiences.

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American History Untucked 17 -- Ari Kelman

Sep 10 2015
Folks, I know it's been a long time since our last episode. Things have been kind of crazy, but I'm hoping to podcast more consistently this year. I'm really excited about our guest this episode: Ari Kelman. Ari is a professor at Penn State and author of Misplaced Massacre, which won all kinds of awards over the past couple of years. In our conversation, we mostly talk about his ne

American History Untucked 16 -- Keith Harris

Mar 20 2015
My guest for this episode is Keith Harris. Keith is probably familiar to many people as the man behind the popular blog Cosmic America, which has now been replaced by his new site keithharrishistory. Keith is also the editor of an exciting new online journal, The Americanist Independent and the author of a recently published book, Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of C

American History Untucked 015 -- Liz Covart

Feb 19 2015
My guest for this episode is historian and podcaster Liz Covart. Her new podcast, Ben Franklin's World, been amazingly successful since it debuted at few months ago. We talk about academic historians and podcasting, how a podcaster envisions her/his audience, her research on New Englanders in upstate New York, and the snow in Boston. You can check out her show on iTunes and other p

American History Untucked 014 -- Kevin Levin, mark two.

Jan 20 2015
The iTunes feed seems to be acting up. I've reposted it.

American History Untucked 014 -- Kevin Levin

Jan 20 2015
Sorry for the long hiatus since the last episode. I'm really happy to be back with a new episode of American History Untucked. My guest for this show is Kevin Levin, whose blog Civil War Memory has been probably my favorite Civil War website for years. He is also the author of an excellent recent book, Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder and has written for the

American History Untucked 013 -- Seth Kotch

Oct 30 2014
My guest for this episode is Dr. Seth Kotch. Seth was a classmate of mine in graduate school and is now the Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the American Studies Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, a post has recently taken after a lengthy tenure as the Digital Projects Director at the Southern Oral History Program. This is kind of a short episode, as both Seth and I are in

American History Untucked 012 -- David Trowbridge

Oct 08 2014
My guest for this episode is David Trowbridge, who teaches at Marshall University. He is the creator of the Clio app that uses GPS technology to direct users to historic sites and provides information about the site that you can consume on the go. It's open source, so users can add content about historic sites in their area. Adding content would be a great project for high school o

American History Untucked 011 -- Anne Sarah Rubin

Sep 22 2014
This is my first show of the new academic year and I was very pleased that Anne Sarah Rubin agreed to come on to talk about her new book on Sherman's March, Through the Heart of Dixie. We also got a chance to talk about the digital project that she had created to accompany the book, and about digital history more broadly, including her work with the Valley of the Shadow project. Un

American History Untucked 010 -- Rachel Hope Cleves

Jun 18 2014
My guest this week is Rachel Hope Cleves, author of The Reign of Terror in America and Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. We talk about some events in her life that prompted her interest in the history of American violence, about LGBT history, and about her current research in Paris. Subscribe the show on iTunes and Stitcher. Be sure to like us on Facebook

American History Untucked 009 -- Rebecca Onion

Jun 10 2014
My guest this week is Rebecca Onion, author of Slate's The Vault blog and historian of childhood and science. For those of you who haven't looked at The Vault, here are some of my favorite gems (the latter two of which we discuss in the show):  How Literate Are You by 1918 Standards?  The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous C