The Center for Public History at the University of Houston is pleased to announce a new podcast series:
Public Historians at Work
https://publichistoriansatwork.buzzsprout.com/
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In this podcast series, we speak with academics, artists, and community members about what it means to do history and humanities work for and with the public. In our first season, we examine public history work as it relates to studying the roots of systemic racism in our city, state, and nation. Interviews include:
- Tweeting through Race, Policing, and Social Change: Brian D. Behnken
- Honoring Black Agency in an American Democracy: Martha S. Jones
- Documenting People through Food, Stories, and Art: Amy C. Evans
- Cultivating Public Memory during Disease and Disaster: Richard Mizelle
- Listening for Latina/o Voices: Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
- Replaying American History through Sports: Frank Guridy
Season One also includes the special supplement, "Stories from the Third Ward." Graduate students produced these episodes with oral histories focused on the historic African American community at the heart of Houston.
For more talks, paneled discussions, and articles on these topics, please see our "Social and Racial Justice Lecture Series" at https://uh.edu/class/ctr-public-history/cph-events/racial-justice.php.
Since 1984, the Center for Public History (CPH) at the University of Houston has been a leader in the field of public history in the city, the state of Texas, and the United States. Our vision is to ignite an understanding of our diverse pasts by collaborating with and training historically minded students, practitioners, and the public through community driven programming and scholarship.