Dr. Rebecca Bond is with Hour of History to discuss the disappearing coast of Louisiana and the politics of environmental change. Dr. Bond received her PhD from Louisiana State University in 2016 with a focus on environmental history. You can reach her out to her on Twitter @rhbond_phd

Weekly Highlights:

Disappearing Louisiana

What government is doing to save the coast

Food and the coastline

"Natural Disasters"

Hurricane Katrina

BP Oil Spill - Deepwater Horizon

What you can do to help the Environment

Jobs and the coastline

Suggestions:

Steven - Amitav Ghosh - The Great Derangement

Rebecca - For some excellent writing on recent issues in environmental history: Environmental History Now also on Twitter @envhistnow 

Books Mentioned in the Podcast: 

Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

Craig E. Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Environmental History Books (In no particular order):

Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Thomas R. Wellock, Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements 1870-2000

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Books on Louisiana, Coastal Erosion, and Katrina:

Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

Jason P. Theriot, American Energy, Imperiled Coast

Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples

Shirley Laska et. al, Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms

Dr. Rebecca Bond

 

https://youtu.be/FxEIy0LP_R4

Dr. Rebecca Bond is with Hour of History to discuss the disappearing coast of Louisiana and the politics of environmental change. Dr. Bond received her PhD from Louisiana State University in 2016 with a focus on environmental history. You can reach her out to her on Twitter @rhbond_phd

Weekly Highlights:

Disappearing Louisiana

What government is doing to save the coast

Food and the coastline

"Natural Disasters"

Hurricane Katrina

BP Oil Spill - Deepwater Horizon

What you can do to help the Environment

Jobs and the coastline

Suggestions:

Steven - Amitav Ghosh - The Great Derangement

Rebecca - For some excellent writing on recent issues in environmental history: Environmental History Now also on Twitter @envhistnow 

Books Mentioned in the Podcast: 

Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

Craig E. Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Environmental History Books (In no particular order):

Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Thomas R. Wellock, Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements 1870-2000

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

Dr. Rebecca Bond's Top Five Books on Louisiana, Coastal Erosion, and Katrina:

Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

Jason P. Theriot, American Energy, Imperiled Coast

Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples

Shirley Laska et. al, Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms

 

https://youtu.be/FxEIy0LP_R4

John Baumann, S. J. is the founder of Faith in Action and current director of special projects, and international director at PICO International, an organization that supports organizing which enables people of faith to reshape their lives and communities. Faith in Action currently operates in hundreds of cities and over twenty states as well as international operations in Central America, East Africa, and the Caribbean.

Some Highlights:

Aiming towards racial and economic justice

Learning by doing

The Chicago Urban Training Center

Belief in people to reach the right decisions

How to build power through relationships with people

Meeting people where they are and not where you want them to be

The creation of PICO (People Improving Community through Organizing)

The growth of PICO training centers in Central America, East Africa, and the Caribbean

How Faith-based community organizing can create a better world

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven - George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier

John - For more information visit: https://faithinaction.org/ and http://picointernational.org/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FIAInternational/

David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Whitman, Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Baumann, S.J. Pictured far left (blue shirt)

https://youtu.be/xQJ56-dbjr0

John Baumann, S. J. is the founder of Faith in Action and current director of special projects, and international director at PICO International, an organization that supports organizing which enables people of faith to reshape their lives and communities. Faith in Action currently operates in hundreds of cities and over twenty states as well as international operations in Central America, East Africa, and the Caribbean.

Some Highlights:

Aiming towards racial and economic justice

Learning by doing

The Chicago Urban Training Center

Belief in people to reach the right decisions

How to build power through relationships with people

Meeting people where they are and not where you want them to be

The creation of PICO (People Improving Community through Organizing)

The growth of PICO training centers in Central America, East Africa, and the Caribbean

How Faith-based community organizing can create a better world

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven - George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier

John - For more information visit: https://faithinaction.org/ and http://picointernational.org/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FIAInternational/

David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Whitman, Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/xQJ56-dbjr0

Cross borders and learn about the histories they didn't teach you in school with Maria Esther Hammack on Hour of History. Maria Esther Hammack is doctoral candidate in the department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation under the direction of Professor Daina Ramey Berry, “South of Slavery: Enslaved and Free Black Movement in a Global Frontier, Mexico, The United States, and Beyond, 1803-1868,” traces the journeys of escapees and migrants who crossed the Mexico-US borderlands because they saw Mexico as a safe haven.

Some Highlights:

The beginning of slavery in the United States

19th century history is larger than you thought

How slaves escapes the American South

What happened once they got to Mexico

Mexican battles for independence

Enslaved histories and how to access them

Abolitionists and people who fought for a better world

The future of history

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven - Biografia de un Cimarron (Biography of a Runaway Slave) by Miguel Barnet

                

Maria - Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas by Daina Berry and Leslie Harris

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

 

https://youtu.be/b9bCxmGGoO0

Cross borders and learn about the histories they didn't teach you in school with Maria Esther Hammack on Hour of History. Maria Esther Hammack is doctoral candidate in the department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation under the direction of Professor Daina Ramey Berry, “South of Slavery: Enslaved and Free Black Movement in a Global Frontier, Mexico, The United States, and Beyond, 1803-1868,” traces the journeys of escapees and migrants who crossed the Mexico-US borderlands because they saw Mexico as a safe haven.

Some Highlights:

The beginning of slavery in the United States

19th century history is larger than you thought

How slaves escapes the American South

What happened once they got to Mexico

Mexican battles for independence

Enslaved histories and how to access them

Abolitionists and people who fought for a better world

The future of history

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven - Biografia de un Cimarron (Biography of a Runaway Slave) by Miguel Barnet

                

Maria - Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas by Daina Berry and Leslie Harris

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

 

https://youtu.be/b9bCxmGGoO0

In a rare look into the behind the scenes of the Hour of History Podcast,  I talk to the HoH Producer, James Auble about what goes into making a podcast.

Some Highlights: 

The steps behind creating a podcast

Examples of finding shortcuts that work for you

The Podcast community and Social Media

Working remotely

The new Episodic Network and how great podcasts find each other

Getting beyond the first few episodes

Weekly Suggestions: 

Steven - Active engagement (posts, emails, messages) to podcasts, teachers, and people who inspire you

James- Episodic Network; The Office - "Dwight's Speech" (Season 2, Episode 17)

https://youtu.be/JH-q9iQgmss

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https://youtu.be/3V4wr6MzapI

 

This week I dig into some archival documents to bring you a short story of the sudden changes that can significantly change our lives.

In a couple weeks, I will start my fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. where I will spend my days digging into the archives full of material like that presented in this episode.

Enjoy this week's episode, and happy holidays to all Hour of History listeners.

Suggestions:

Steven: Who do you want to hear as a guest on the Hour of History Podcast in 2019? Make your suggestions in the comment section!

https://youtu.be/U9uBzCdv4-Y

History is all around us. Sometimes it is just a matter of sitting and listening. When was the last time you met someone new and learned about the way they view the past? How many stories are out there? This week in an unorthodox Hour of History interview, I look back to an interview I did earlier this year where a chance encounter became a long conversation about Cuban history. The discussion ranged from the Revolution to modern day and offers insight into personal experience in Pre-Revolution Havana as well as historical memory.

Some Highlights:

Havana in the 1940s

Cuban Revolution

Cuban and American connections

Talking to your neighbors

City noise

Weekly Recommendation:

Talk to someone you don't know, about the past

 

Thanks for telling me your story!

History all around us!

Although people like to visit statues, the best stories are told by people.

 

https://youtu.be/4ANdDmY579E