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.
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Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Dr. Gregory Robinson teaches history for Southern New Hampshire University. In this episode we discuss his career teaching high school students, his research into Native American trickster gods and other aspects of mythology, his brief stint as a playwright, and the connections he has drawn between history and motorcycles.
This episode’s recommendations:
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harper Collins, 2015)
Seamus Heaney, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2000)
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (Pluto Press, 1994)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: JFK in the White House (Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Violence: America in the Sixties (New American Library, 1968)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., “Origins of the Cold War,” Foreign Affairs 46:1 (October 1967)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power, and Violence in America (1969)
Vikings (TV Show)
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