Working Historians is a podcast series that showcases the work and careers of historians in a wide variety of career fields. We hope to introduce history students and the general public to the career paths available to people who study history, introduce and promote historians to students and the public, and showcase the work that historians do on a regular basis. Hosts Rob Denning and Jimmy Fennessy can be reached at workinghistorians@gmail.com.
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Adolfo Mendez is a history and social sciences teacher at a middle school in Galveston, Texas. In this brief episode of Filibustering History, Adolfo talks about the hiring and training processes for grade schools in Texas and the skills essential for a successful middle school teacher.
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tim Garrity - Executive Director, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tim Garrity is the Executive Director for the Mount Desert Island Historical Society in Maine. In this episode of Filibustering History, Tim talks about his careers as a hospital manager, park ranger, and Executive Director for a historical society. Here we talk about how students of history can work with local historical societies in research capacities and in employment opportunities.
This episode’s recommendations:
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610-1791. Individual scanned volumes are available at archive.org (for example: https://archive.org/stream/jesuits01jesuuoft#page/n5/mode/2up). Transcripts of all volumes are available at http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/.
Johanna Neuman, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote (NYU Press, 2017), https://nyupress.org/books/9781479837069/.
The Junto, “Where Historians Work: The View from Early America”: https://earlyamericanists.com/2017/05/24/where-historians-work-welcome/
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s website is www.mdihistory.org
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
Dr. Susie Chung is a Team Lead and an instructor in the graduate history program at Southern New Hampshire University. In this episode, Dr. Chung talks about recent developments in the field of museum studies, her research projects, and her globe-spanning adventures in museology.
This episode’s recommendations:
The House on the Rock: https://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_AttractionMain.htm
Phil Marcade, Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982: http://threeroomspress.com/authors/punk-avenue/
Whistlestop with John Dickerson: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/whistlestop.html