Four Academic Podcasts
I’ve seldom found a podcast that I’ve listened to more than once, but these four podcasts I listen to regularly. All feature fascinating discussions, and all are professionally done.
Digital Campus is a discussion between three historians at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. They cover the news and issues about how technology affects higher education and public history institutions. At the end of the show, the hosts give helpful links.
THAT Podcast, also from CHNM, is a how-to podcast that includes video. Its title stands for “The Humanities and Technology Podcast.” The first part of each episode is an interview with someone whose work affects digital humanities. The second part explains how to use a particular technology. For example, the first two episodes covered WordPress and Omeka.
History Conversations, a third podcast from CHNM, offers interviews with historian, both professional and amateur.
New Books In History offers interviews with authors of recently published history books. Two notable episodes have discussed Malcolm Rohrbough’s The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions and Eric Gardner’s Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West.
