Best Center For Oral And Public History Podcasts (2025)

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Making Queer History Public Episode 4: Realities of Teaching LGBTQ+ History with ASHP’s Summer Institute Participants 33:57

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This episode of Making Queer History Public features interviews conducted in late 2024 with educators Kennita Ballard and Julian Shaefer, who attended ASHP’s LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States NEH-funded institutes during the Summers of 2022 and 2024 (respectively). Hosted by veteran educator and PhD student in history, Rachel Pitkin, the episod…

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Stories from the Third Ward: War and the Third Ward 16:31

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Send us a text All over the United States, communities and individuals banded together to support the country during the Second World War. Houston’s Third Ward was no different in this respect. In this special episode, UH graduate students Austin Lee and James Burke weave together accounts originally documented in the African American newspaper, Th…

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Episode 25: Overlooked Injustice: The Children's Village at Manzanar 54:37

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In Episode Twenty-Five, Dr. Benjamin Cawthra sits down with former CSUF history graduate student Kiana Nakamura on the anniversary of Executive Order 9066 to discuss her exhibit, "Overlooked Injustice: The Children's Village at Manzanar." In this interview, Kiana discusses why she pursued this project, her family's experience of being interned, wha…

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Bridging Generations with Collective Biography: Sharing Stories from 1977 43:48

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Send us a text In 1977, thousands of women gathered in Houston, Texas, for the first and only federally funded National Women’s Conference (NWC) in U.S. History. Their purpose was to set and deliver an agenda to the president that would ensure that women’s rights would be a central focus in the wider human rights debate. The Sharing Stories from 19…

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Building Belonging in the Archive: USLDH 43:28

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Send us a text The power of an archive to elevate an underrepresented community cannot be overstated. Since the early 1990s, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program ("Recovery") under Arte Público Press at the University of Houston has focused on collecting and making accessible the written legacy of Hispanic and Latino peoples from co…

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Discovering Power in the Past: The Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture Project 52:18

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Send us a text A historian and two engineers walk into a conference…. Rather than the start to a joke, this is a core component of the project, "Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture: Using Historical Analysis to Envision a Sustainable Future.” Led by Dr. Julie Cohn, a research historian (Center for Public History, University of Houston), and t…

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Curating Visibility: Latino cARTographies 51:22

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Send us a text Latino cARTographies is an interactive digital archive and exhibition reimagining Houston through an inclusive vision of Latino art, artists, and community. This project was developed out of the University of Houston’s Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies (CMALS) as the brain child of Dr. Pamela Anne Quiroz (Distinguished…

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Reaching New Audiences thru Data Science and UX: SYRIOS 55:44

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Send us a text In an increasingly digitized world, public historians have new opportunities to reach wider audiences than ever before. However, translating our work online for and with public audiences requires more than simply uploading essays and images. In this conversation among the directors of SYRIOS (recorded Fall 2023), we learn how a digit…

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Immigrant Stories: Salomon Imiak 16:07

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Send us a text Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertold immigrant stories. Together, they reveal a range of experiences that uncover often overlo…

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Immigrant Stories: Sara Esquenazi 12:33

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Send us a text Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertold immigrant stories. Together, they reveal a range of experiences that uncover often overlo…

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Immigrant Stories: Kuperman and Hebraica Houston 14:36

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Send us a text Over the course of the 20th century, Houston evolved into a global city as immigrants from across the world came to call the city home. In this special supplement, undergraduate students from the University of Houston explore Houston’s undertold immigrant stories. Together, they reveal a range of experiences that uncover often overlo…

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Recovering Hidden Histories: The Sephardic Latinx Oral History Project 48:44

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Send us a text In Spring 2022, Dr. Mark Goldberg (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston) decided to try something new with his undergraduate history course. As a way of enriching his students’ engagement with Jewish Latinx culture, Goldberg partnered with Holocaust Museum Houston to guide his class through the recording and archivin…

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Finding Radical Hope: 100 Years of Stories 17:23

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Send us a text In the practice of public history, how the wider community receives a project is just as important as the intentions behind its creation. As work done for and with public audiences, the exhibits, media, and spaces we cultivate form a dialogue where agency is shared, emotions are welcome, and diverse experiences are honored. As Dr. St…

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Celebrating a University: 100 Years of Stories 44:50

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Send us a text In 2027, the University of Houston in Texas will celebrate its centennial anniversary. In honor of that upcoming milestone, the Center for Public History (CPH) partnered with UH Libraries and Houston Public Media to collect, share, and preserve stories related to the university’s legacy across one hundred years. On November 30th, 202…

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Making Queer History Public Episode 3: Preserving Queer History in Classrooms with Dr. Lori Burns and Kate Okeson 28:40

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The third episode of Making Queer History Public features interviews conducted in 2020 with educators and activists Dr. Lori Burns and Kate Okeson, who have been on the frontlines of preserving queer history and topics in our classrooms for years. Today, we will discuss their fight for New Jersey’s first inclusive education law. Hosted by veteran e…

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"From Generation to Generation" Episode 4 - "Origami as Metaphor" 38:36

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In season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah.…

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"From Generation to Generation" Episode 3 - "Between Worlds": Japanese American Identity & Belonging 35:42

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In season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah.…

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"From Generation to Generation" Episode 2 - "A Place Like This": The Memory of Incarceration 39:45

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In season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah.…

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"From Generation to Generation" Episode 1 - "It's Happening Now": Japanese American Activism 26:35

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In season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah.…

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Dr. Lenka Benova- Meeting the Particular Health Needs of Women in the Midst of Epidemic Crisis (#7) 55:25

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Dr. Benova didn’t start off as an infectious disease specialist - Infectious disease research came to her through her work on maternal health during the COVID-19 epidemic. She shares with us her insights into maternal and neonatal health, and shows us how key populations - expectant mothers - are forgotten in disease outbreaks. Dr. Benova explains …

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Voices for the Environment - Episode 3: Environmental Justice for All 26:48

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Episode 3: Environmental Justice for All The podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion t…

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Voices for the Environment - Episode 2: Tides of Conservation 29:36

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Episode 2: Tides of Conservation The podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion to advanc…

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Voices for the Environment - Episode 1: A Preservationist Spirit 29:52

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Episode 1: A Preservationist SpiritThe podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion to adva…

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Episode 24: Dorothea Lange's California: 1935-1942 53:21

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In episode Twenty-four, Dr. Benjamin Cawthra sits down with graduate students, Natalie Vandercook, Angelica Smith, and Kayla Ratliff, to discuss their work on the Great Park Gallery’s new exhibit, Dorothea Lange’s California: 1935-1942. The students talk about the process of researching and mounting an exhibition, and reflect on the impact of Lange…

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Jackie Thornhill — Getting Involved in Emergency Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic, How the Pandemic Directly Affected the City of San Francisco, The Importance of Protecting the Most Vulnerable ... 41:53

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Jackie Thornhill is a communications, policy, and public relations expert currently serving as a Legislative Aide to San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. She has created and executed communications plans for multiple elected officials, candidates for elected office, and public agencies. She has coordinated digital engagement and so…

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Gail Carson — Creating a Database of Over a Million Case Records From 1,700+ Sites Across the Globe, Becoming an Infectious Disease Doctor, The Growing Epidemic of Networks, Treating ISARIC as if It Was ... 1:11:12

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Quote: “No one institution can possibly do it on their own” Dr Gail Carson is an adult infectious diseases doctor by background who joined the first GOARN (network of institutions preparing and responding to outbreaks) mission to Gulu in 2000. Since then her career has been focussed on outbreak preparedness and response. She was fortunate enough to…

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Syra Madad — Working With The NYC’s Special Pathogens Program and the Largest Municipal Healthcare Station in the U.S., The “Slammer”, The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Pandemic Response, Being ... 1:03:40

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Quote: Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. Madad is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals where she is part of the executive leadership team which oversees New York City's response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the city's 11 …

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Magda Robalo — Decolonizing Global Health, Gender Inequality in a Male Dominated Field, “Finding Her Voice” as a Non-Native English Speaker, and Applying Clinical Research to Policy Making in the Caribbean ... 1:30:19

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Quote: Dr. Magda Robalo, WGH Global Managing Director, is an accomplished global health leader, trailblazer, and a leading voice for gender equality and social justice. She embodies a rich blend of technical, political, and diplomatic skills and experience, forged over thirty years of work across geographies and cultures, with diverse global, regio…

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Melody Schreiber — Discovering the Field of Health Journalism, Reporting on Low Birthweight Treatments, Addressing How Climate Change Impacted Arctic Communities, and Framing Stories About Public Health ... 1:15:55

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Quote: “The big thing back then was; How do we get people to care about health?” Melody Schreiber is a freelance health and science journalist who regularly writes for the Guardian US, The New Republic, Scientific American, NPR, The Washington Post, and other publications. She is also editor of “What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories About Prematu…

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Anna Barry — Going From Photography to Public Health Journalism, The Factors That Go Into How Public Health Officials Inform The Public, Untangling The Threads of Ever-changing Information, Tensions Between ... 56:57

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Quote: "It became a continious debate over who/what would be impacted by response efforts. Was it worth closing schools to keep businesses open? Only time will tell." From her humble start as a traveling photographer, Anna Barry-Jester walks us through how she became a public health journalist in the midst of a recession. This exciting role investi…

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Making Queer History Public Episode 2: Trans Lives and Oral History with Michelle Esther O'Brien 29:50

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In the second episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with psychotherapist, teacher, and activist, Michelle Esther O’Brien. We discuss the work Michelle has put in coordinating the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories. Making Queer History Public is sponso…

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Accessing Disability History: Cathy Kudlick and Fran Osborne 56:10

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Send us a text In 1977, over 100 people with disabilities and their allies occupied a federal building in San Francisco for almost a month. Part of the national 504 Sit-In, this remarkable protest sought to finally sign into law Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973), which would make it illegal for any federally funded facilities or programs…

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Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood 28:15

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In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Fullwood, about his experiences archiving the lives of LGBTQ+ folks at the Schomburg Center. We also discuss the historical exclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in institutional archives and the work that people like Steven have done to br…

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Transmitting Infectious Historians: Lee Mordechai and Merle Eisenberg 51:02

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Send us a text What do millennia-old plagues have to do with the current COVID-19 pandemic? In this episode (recorded on May 11, 2022), Dr. Kristina Neumann sits down with Drs. Merle Eisenberg (Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University) and Lee Mordechai (Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), late antique & medieval hist…

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38. 1980s Farm Crisis, Roundtable #3 39:10

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In the final episode of our limited series podcast, our host Ron Kroese moderates a discussion on the 1980s farm crisis. This is a continuation of the roundtable discussion from the last two episodes. Each individual played an important role in the work of National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and its predecessor efforts. During the fir…

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37. Successes and Challenges, Roundtable #2 1:10:27

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This week, we focus on successes, challenges, and take a deeper look at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). This is the second of three episodes of a roundtable discussion moderated by host Ron Kroese. Next week, we’ll talk about the 1980s farm crisis and share stories about those who made an impact on sustainable agriculture pol…

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Episode 23: Digital History as Public History 1:14:26

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In Episode Twenty-three, Dr. Benjamin Cawthra talks with CSUF Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media in History, Dr. Jamila Moore-Pewu, and CSUF History graduate and Digital Ethnic Futures Outreach Coordinator, Scherly Virgill. They discuss the growing field of digital history, its relationship with public history, and collaboratin…

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36. Formation of NSAC, Roundtable #1 1:45:39

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In the final three episodes of our limited series podcast, our host Ron Kroese moderates a discussion. Each individual played an important role in the work of National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and its predecessor efforts. This week, we focus on the formation, development, and accomplishments of NSAC over the past three decades, thro…

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35. Joyce Ford & Jim Riddle, long-time organic farmers 1:25:23

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Joyce E. Ford and Jim Riddle have worked tirelessly on organic agriculture policy in the state of Minnesota, nationally, and internationally. This week, Ron Kroese talks with the long-time organic farmers and sustainable farming advocates from Winona, Minnesota, who share their numerous accomplishments, stories of colleagues they’ve worked with thr…

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In Memoriam: An Oral History with Roz Wyman 3:13:19

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Roz Wyman was the youngest person and second woman ever to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council. While on the City Council she also became an instrumental figure in bringing the Dodgers to Los Angeles. In 2019 she was interviewed for our Women, Politics, and Activism Oral History Project. In her interview Wyman reflects on her expansive caree…

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Valuing Emotion around HIV/AIDS: Stephen Vider 41:08

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Send us a text According to Dr. Stephen Vider (Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University), capturing feeling is just as important to public history as transmitting knowledge. Whether collecting an oral history or cultivating a museum exhibit, Dr. Vider emphasizes the ethical responsibility to honor people’s bodily and emotional responses…

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34. Bob Bergland, Secretary of Agriculture 1977-1981 51:24

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Bob Bergland’s vision and leadership led to the government’s first initiative in organic and sustainable agriculture. This week, our host Ron talks with Bob about his several decades of public service, with the interview focusing primarily on four studies. This was recorded in 2017, one year before Bob passed away. Robert (Bob) Bergland was born on…

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33. Elizabeth Henderson, trailblazing CSA farmer 57:06

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Elizabeth Henderson was raised by people concerned with peace and justice, which shaped her life path. This week, Elizabeth sits down with our host, Ron, and talks about community-supported agriculture (CSAs), organic ag, and food justice. She is a long-time activist for local and national policies and programs to advance socially and economically …

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32. Mark Winne, equitable and sustainable food systems advocate 1:11:07

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Mark Winne is a renowned lifelong advocate for policies to advance equitable and sustainable food systems in the U.S. and throughout the planet. On this week’s episode, Mark speaks with host Ron Kroese about food policy councils, farmers markets, food banks, farm to school, youth nutrition, and farmland preservation. Mark grew up in the Garden Stat…

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31: Bob Scowcroft & Mark Lipson, organic champions 1:12:05

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-------- Bob Scowcroft’s story continues this week, and he is joined by Mark Lipson as well as host Ron Kroese. Mark begins the conversation at the end of 1987, when Bob joined California Certified Organic Farmers as executive director. About 18 months into Bob’s tenure, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Santa Cruz area (right at the same time Mar…

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Archiving Cancer Care at MD Anderson: Javier Garza 38:04

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Send us a text If a medical institution’s mission is to make cancer a relic of the past, the archivist’s role is to collect, preserve, and make that history available. So says Javier Garza, Senior Library Analyst and Archivist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Historical Resources Center in Houston, TX. In his interview with graduate student Allis…

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30: Bob Scowcroft, co-founder of Organic Farming Research Foundation 1:14:07

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If you thought you heard sustainable ag history stories, make sure you listen to this one. In this week’s episode, Bob Scowcroft talks with our host Ron Kroese about the beginning of his sustainable agriculture career. Then, next week, Bob will be joined by Mark Lipson to continue the conversation. Bob begins by telling us about his early golf care…

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Publishing Under-told Stories of Houston: Debbie Harwell 42:40

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Send us a text There are many ways to produce public history, but one of the most unique publications comes from the University of Houston. Houston History magazine is a student-written and edited publication dedicated to the under-told stories of one of the largest and most diverse metropolitan regions of the United States. Join Dr. Debbie Z. Harw…

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29. Jill Auburn, former National Program Leader at USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture 1:04:27

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Jill Shore Auburn was a National Program Leader at the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture from January 1998 until her retirement in April 2017, managing grant programs for research and extension on sustainable agriculture, local/regional food systems, rural community development, and beginning farmers and ranchers. In this week’s epi…