Centre Trail History Podcast

Centre Trail History Podcast

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Centre Trail History Podcast episodes

  • 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. 

    23 min
  • 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.
    44 min
  • 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.
    31 min
  • 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.
    30 min
  • 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.
    37 min
  • 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.
    28 min
  • 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.
    38 min

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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.