
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 Feb 26, 2025
History Speaker Series with Karen Sieber and Public History
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
In this History Speaker Series event, public historian Karen Sieber discusses her career as a public historian and historical consultant, focusing on her recent research on Moses Dickson and the Underground Railroad in Minnesota. Karen received her master's degree in public history from Loyola University Chicago. She is best known as the creator of Visualizing the Red Summer, which is part of the AP African American Studies curriculum nationwide. Her work has been featured by the Library of Congress, National Archives, American Historical Association, Smithsonian and others. She also appears as an expert on Black history in documentaries like the CBS, Smithsonian, and BET collaboration, Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. Last year she led the scholarly team for the NEH award winning series, “Examining Military History from the Margins.” In 2025 she will be developing a series of documentary shorts funded by PBS related to America’s 250th anniversary. She will also be leading preservation, exhibit design, and outreach efforts for a project in St. Paul, Minnesota, related to Pullman Porter history. She also teaches public history courses in Southern New Hampshire's graduate History program.

Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
History Speaker Series with Margaret MacDonald and Caroline Beatrice Parker
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
In this History Speaker Series event, Dr. Margaret MacDonald discusses her professional and academic career, her advocacy work as a public historian, and her research on Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first Black woman known to receive an advanced degree in physics and worked on the Dayton Project, part of the Manhattan Project, during World War II.
Dr. Peggy Macdonald is a public historian and adjunct professor. She has taught at Southern New Hampshire University, Stetson University, Indian River State College and the University of Florida, where she received a Ph.D. in history. A native Floridian, Dr. Macdonald has written about local and Florida history for FORUM Magazine, Gainesville Magazine, Our Town Magazine, and Senior Times. In 2014, the University Press of Florida published her book, Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment.
Recommendations:
Jack Davis, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (W. W. Norton, 2017)
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Anti-Slavery Society, 1845)

Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Karen Kincaid Brady is the Programming Director for the Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin, Texas. In this episode, Karen talks to Southern New Hampshire University’s Callie Cook about the value of building your network, career opportunities in history, and creative ways to connect and build experiences with colleagues.
This episode was originally broadcast on Southern New Hampshire University’s Passion and Practicality podcast feed.

Friday Jan 19, 2018
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Dr. James Ricker is an instructor at Southern New Hampshire University and the owner of JCR Cultural Resources. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about Dr. Ricker’s academic and professional background, the history of the cultural resource management profession in Oklahoma and across the country, and his action-packed adventures in archaeology.
This episode’s recommendations:
Plato, The Republic - especially the cave allegory
“Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire” exhibit at the De Young Museum
Brian Alexander, Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017),