March was the history podcast month. I have tried to pick up on as many new history podcasts as I could. There were 11 new podcasts I could catch up with. I'll list them below. I'll also list the podcasts I have written about before and that were remembered this month as well. Eventually there were 7 history podcasts, I tracked down, but managed to listen to only a small portion of the issues. Not enough for a complete review, but I'll give them a quick address below as well.
New reviews this month
History of Rome,
History 106B (Berkeley),
TudorCast,
Podcasts on Medieval Texts,
Ancient and Medieval History Podcast,
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events,
Hank's History Hour,
American History before 1870,
Your History Podcast,
History of the International System,
GLAD Anniversary Podcasts.
Other history podcast reviews begins with my favorites history 5 and OVT, but there are more:
History 5 (Berkeley):
Absolutism and Science,
Enlightenment and French Revolution.
OVT:
1941 - Handlangers,
1943 - Stalingrad,
1943 - Polen.
In Our Time (BBC)
HistoryzineHistory according to BobHannibal (Stanford)History 4A (Berkeley)12 Byzantine RulersThe Missing LinkDan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryQuick review of the remaining history podcasts:
History 2311The history of Western Civilization up to 1600, by Gretchen Ann Reilly, also known from the podcast
American History before 1870. This is a quality monologue style podcast in 15 minute editions. The entry level is high school / college.
History 2312Also by Ms. Reilly is the follow-up, Western Civilization from 1600 on. I would recommend this course for AP European History students, rather than
Hank's History Hour.
Everything LincolnA history podcast that digs up anything that has to do with Abraham Lincoln. Much in the way of
Tudorcast does for the Tudors. there is no didactic build in order to pass understanding of the person, but rather an unstructured stream of episodes. Charmingly done however. So far there are three podcasts in the feed.
Peopletalk's PodcastAn audiobook style podcast that delivers historical texts being read to the listener.
Redborne History PodcastHistory podcast of a British school teacher in preparation of his students. Two issues in the feed.
Teaching American HistoryUniversity lectures on various subjects of American History; a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University.
We the People StoriesA podcast of the US National Constitution Center addressing constitutional issues with lectures and forum discussions on a very high level.
What to expect next:
- 118 podcasts reviewed
- new and improved set up of History podcast directory with links to reviews, sites and feeds
- migration of the other directories to the same structure
Orson Welles allegedly didn't like H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, nevertheless took it upon himself to turn the 19th century story into a radio play. Afterwards he claimed to have wanted to check the power of the new medium of radio and pretended to have wanted to teach the public a lesson in vigilance - not take anything they hear on radio for granted. In that light, the craze, the mass panic, showed the experience as a failure. Nevertheless, a radio maker in Quito, Ecuador, regarded it as a success and tried to emulate it in 1949, with disastrous effects. Riots and people killed and wounded.
