Centre Trail History Podcast

By Centre Trail History Podcast

The History Program at Centre College podcasts about history: how we talk about it, how we teach it, and how wider society uses and sometimes misuses it.... more

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The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.

Centre Trail History Podcast episodes:

November 19, 2020 Episode 31: HIS 500 in a Global Pandemic
In this episode of Centre Trail, Dr. Sara Egge describes how she restructured her history seminar course, the capstone class for Centre College history majors. We discuss the changes she made and more generally, what she has learned teaching in the midst of a global pandemic.
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23min
November 18, 2020 Centre Trail Podcast 30: College and COVID
John and Tara welcome our intern this term, Injee Hong. Centre College is working to stay open and keep our students safe during the global pandemic, but this has obviously led to things being different here...
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27min
November 23, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 29: Black Friday
Today, Maddie Huber and previous Centre Trail Intern Payton Howard discuss the history of Black Friday and what the retail holiday means today.
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26min
October 31, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 28: Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Considered one of the most haunted sites in America, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium is sure to scare anyone. Come listen to former Centre Trail Intern Payton Howard and myself discuss the history behind this building as well as tell some ghost stories that surround it.
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44min
October 17, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 27: Studying Holidays and the Bhoys
John and Tara sit down to talk about Tara's research over the summer. She had two main projects: a book on American holidays written for a popular audience, and in-depth archival research on documents from Centre College's mid-nineteenth century history. She talks about what it is like to work on two projects, and the benefits - to professor and student alike - of working with an undergraduate on historical research.
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31min
September 06, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 26: When in Rome
We're back! John and Tara are back at Centre, though in truth we never left, or at least did not leave for long... John talks about his research trip to the Vatican and adventures in reading through documents in languages you are unable to read.
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30min
May 09, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 25: History y Historía
Today, CentreTrail intern Colleen Coyle takes over the podcast, interviewing two of her favorite Spanish professors, Dr. Chantell Limerick and Dr. Laura Chinchilla about what role the topic of history plays in the Spanish classroom.
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37min
April 19, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 24: Relics and Memory
Our intern Colleen Coyle joins us this week to talk about relics and other objects and spaces that people like to commemorate, from a President's prosthetic leg to computerized renditions of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
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28min
April 02, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 23: Baseball in Taiwan
John and Tara celebrate Opening Day in the United States by talking about the subject of John's book coming out this summer: baseball... in Taiwan! Come for tales of imperialism and cultural interaction across the Pacific, stay for slightly graphic accounts of intensive high school baseball training sessions.
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38min
March 15, 2019 Centre Trail Podcast 22: Quakers and Multiracial Communities in Ohio
This week we talk about Tara's latest publication, a book chapter about multiracial communities in antebellum Ohio. We discuss Quakerism and slavery in North America and the complexities of multiracial identities and communities in early nineteenth century Ohio.
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28min

FAQs about Centre Trail History Podcast:

How many episodes does Centre Trail History Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.