This is the second part of the blog posted in December 2022, outlining a number of excellent blogs for teaching and learning. In addition to general suggestions, we are also mindful Black History Month which will official launch February 1, 2023. Most podcasts can be accessed using Apple Podcasts,
Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Check individual websites for links to podcasts as some require Audible accounts.
Nelson Mandela – The Lost Tapes
This podcast, available for free on Audible is a collection of interviews between Nelson Mandela and ghostwrite Richard Stengel, Long Walk to Freedom. The interviews are newly released and provide students and teachers with first hand material that can be in so many ways to teach about Nelson Mandela, writing, history, and the life of a man who had just survived 27 years imprisoned.
To date, there are ten episodes, released in December 2022 and is more than six hours of material.
Additional Resources: The Nelson Mandela Foundation – https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/researcher-resources
Nelson Mandela (Richard Stengel) Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, 1995.
This work was also made into a movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304771/), directed by Justin Chadwick, with Idris Elba.
For other sources that support Black history month and teaching with podcasts, see:
Jessica Green, “Here are six podcasts to listen to in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” January 13, 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1148690803/podcasts-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-day
Code Switch: “Fearless Conversations about race…”
The Road to the Promised Land, 50 Years Later. April 4, 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/599195739/the-road-to-the-promised-land-50-years-later
The Mothers Who Raised Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin, February 17, 2021
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021), January 13, 2022.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072465899/bayard-rustin-the-man-behind-the-march-on-washington-2021
The Docket: The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, July 21, 2021.
Radio Boston
Boston pastors reflect on MLK’s legacy, ‘radical love’ and striving for a better world, January 18, 2022.
https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1073865214:1073865251
Life Kit
‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough: Putting In the Work to be Anti-Racist, August 25, 2020.
https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=905515398:905686930
Professor buzzkill History Podcast, https://professorbuzzkill.com/
Dr. Joseph Coohill, a historian of Britain and Ireland. Dr. Coohill has a social media presence and as a public historian, works to raise historical awareness and understanding to diverse audiences. His almost 500 podcasts date back to 2016, but his first podcast was about Rosa Parks, from May 12, 2015 and includes an interview with Professor Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, 2013, winner of the NAACP Image Award Winnter: Outstanding Literary Work / Auto Biography which was made into a documentary in 2022 (The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks | MSNBC Trailer) based on Professor Theoharis’s work.
His most recent series of podcasts are interviews with authors from the bestselling work, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, Myth Amercian: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Past, Basic Books, 2023. 400 pages.
Authors include: Akhil Reed Amar, Kathleen Belew, Carol Anderson, Kevin Kruse, Erika Lee, Daniel Immerwahr, Elizabeth Hinton, Naomi Oreskes, Erika M. Conway, Ari Kelman, Geraldo Cadava, David A. Bell, Joshua Zeitz, Sarah Churchwell, Michael Kazin, Karen L. Cox, Eric Rauchway, Glenda Gilmore, Natalie Mehlman Petrzela, Lawrence B. Glickman, and Julian E. Zelizer.
Dr. David A. Bell, “American Exceptionalism As Part of Myth America” https://professorbuzzkill.com/american-exceptionalism-as-part-of-myth-america/ January 24, 2023.
Dr. Carol Anderson, “The Real Voter Fraud in the United States” https://professorbuzzkill.com/the-real-voter-fraud-in-the-united-states/ January 17, 2023.
Dr. Karen Cox, “Confederate Monuments as Part of Myth America” https://professorbuzzkill.com/confederate-monuments-as-part-of-myth-america/ January 11, 2023. Episode 494.
Dr. Kevin Kruse and Dr. Julian Zelizer, “Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past” https://professorbuzzkill.com/myth-america/ January 3, 2023.
Great Britain
History Extra: https://www.historyextra.com/
This website has a diversity of tools and resources for teaching and learning. There are subscription options for their magazine and you can also subscribe to their on-demand lectures, articles, and extended podcasts. There is greater searchability using the online version of the website but many options are behind a paywall.
This podcast has general history including, period drama, food and drink history, historical literature, specific monarchs, their time, and topics like women’s history, slavery, World Wars and The Holocaust among many other topics drawing on experts and their publications in North America and the United Kingdom.
There are a number of special series that are engaging and may meet a diversity of course content such as: Historical Conspiracies, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Mary Rose, Tutankhamun, 15 minutes of fame, The black death, the Salem witch trials and a final popular feature podcast brings experts into the studio to answer questions that are posted via social media and online searches, “Everything you wanted to know.”
For example, Donald Wright answered listener questions in June 2021: https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/canadian-history-everything-wanted-know-podcast-donald-wright/
Most podcasts have corelating monographs, publications, and magazine articles that support each episode.
As of Monday, January 23, 2023, there were 1, 564 podcasts available.
For Black History Month, the following podcasts may support teaching and learning:
Keshia N. Abraham and John Woolf, “Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century.” https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/black-victorians-britons-famous-who/
December 8, 2022.
Teni Gogo, “Slavery’s painful legacy: the British empire’s role in the trade of enslaved people.” https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/slavery-british-empire-legacy/
October 19, 2022.
HistoryHit Network
Podcasts: https://www.historyhit.com/podcasts/
HistoryHit is a network of history podcast that covers a range of topics including, The Ancients, Gone Medieval, Not Just the Tudors, Warfare, Betwixt the Sheets, Patented: History of Inventions, American History Hit and Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast. Dan Snow may be a familiar name as he has been featured on special news broadcasts covering Remembrance Day and most recently, Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. His show has more than 900 episodes and he like History Extra, Ben Franklin’s World and other podcasts, he interviews historians, heritage professionals, and other experts on current news, recent publications, conferences and research. Of all of the podcast topics and hosts, by far, Dan Snow’s work is more diverse and prolific.
A recent episode features the most recent work of well-known Canadian historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum, Tim Cook. On January 19, 2023. Snow’s interview is based on Dr. Cook’s most recent publication related to the First World War from the Canadian perspective of medical frontline staff, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War Penguin Books, 2022.
https://shows.acast.com/dansnowshistoryhit/episodes/wwi-lifesavers-and-body-snatchers