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
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Charles Reed - Associate Professor of History, ECSU, and President, H-Net
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Dr. Charles Reed is Associate Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University and it most of the way through his term as President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. In this episode, we talk about Chas’s background and his reign as president, but we also wander through other topics, such as declining enrollments in history programs, historically black colleges and universities, history-based role-playing and video games, and why everybody should care about H-Net. This episode’s recommendations: Miles Taylor, Empress: Queen Victoria and India (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300118094/empress. Richard Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh: How Mark Twain Escaped Debt and Disgrace with a Round-the-World Comedy Tour (New York: Penguin Random House, 2017), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220148/chasing-the-last-laugh-by-richard-zacks/9780345802538/. Other items of interest: Clio app: https://www.theclio.com/web/ Reacting to the Past role-playing games: https://reacting.barnard.edu/ Benjamin M. Schmidt, “The History BA Since the Great Recession,” Perspectives on History, November 26, 2018, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2018/the-history-ba-since-the-great-recession-the-2018-aha-majors-report Rob Denning and James Fennessy can be reached at workinghistorians@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Brian Cervantez discusses Amon Carter, A Lone Star Life
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Dr. Brian Cervantez is Associate Professor at Tarrant County College in Texas, where he specializes in the history of the American South. Today he discusses the subject of his forthcoming book, Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life, to be released in 2019 by the University of Oklahoma Press. For more information, visit the publisher’s website: https://www.oupress.com/books/15070738/amon-carter