Centre Trail History Podcast

Centre Trail History Podcast

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.

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November 19, 2020 22 mins

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. 

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John and Tara welcome our intern this term, Injee Hong. Centre College is working to stay open and keep our students safe during the global pandemic, but this has obviously led to things being different here...

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November 22, 2019 25 mins
Today, Maddie Huber and previous Centre Trail Intern Payton Howard discuss the history of Black Friday and what the retail holiday means today.
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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.
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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.
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September 6, 2019 29 mins
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This week we talk about Tara's latest publication, a book chapter about multiracial communities in antebellum Ohio. We discuss Quakerism and slavery in North America and the complexities of multiracial identities and communities in early nineteenth century Ohio.
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Tara asks John about one of this classes this term, an upper division course called "Age of the Samurai." John talks about what the course covers, from romantic battles to noble deaths.
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November 22, 2018 24 mins
John and Tara are coming to the end of a long semester, and with Thanksgiving on the horizon sat down to chat about a subject they both enjoy a great deal: historical fiction! In particular, we talk about why we like this genre of writing in our capacity as historians. When is there too much fiction in your history? What are the benefits of being able to play around with historical fact in the interest of telling a story?
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John and Tara get together to talk about how the public remembers and celebrates veterans of the armed services. Practices differ across the Atlantic despite a shared history in the two largest conflicts of the twentieth century.
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John and Tara welcome Centre Trail's new intern Payton, and Tara shares her research on a parody of the college catalog produced by Centre College students in 1854. Be ready for hilarious stories of one legged professors and the noble sport of turkey stealing. Off to the wars again!
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John and Tara talk about the tragic fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. What does it mean to lose these records of human knowledge, and how do historians approach the reality of limitations to the knowledge we have collected? What are archives and how do historians use them?
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Following the passing of Senator John McCain, John and Tara talk about the history of social conventions surrounding the deaths of political figures in the United States and China.
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September 1, 2018 32 mins
JD Dotson, Payton Howard, Sam Long, Kersey Reynolds and Will Smith discuss the concept of performance enhancement in modern sport.
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August 31, 2018 23 mins
Benjamin Hadlock, Austin Lotspeich, Trace Oliver and Andrew Salchli discuss the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919 as part of a broader look at the phenomenon of cheating in sport.
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August 30, 2018 20 mins
Dylan Barnett, Trevor Carnell, Jeffrey Chen and Lauren Richards look at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, hosted by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
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August 29, 2018 21 mins
Carson Ebert, Alex Leff, Evan Whitis and Wu Sili discuss the famous "Miracle on Ice", when the United States ice hockey team shockingly defeated their counterparts from the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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