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Five History Podcasts To Love
Five History Podcasts To Love

Look, I am not the same girl I was a decade ago. I have come to enjoy learning the names, dates, and facts of times past. Call me Winston Smith, but I have come to see history as the key to the present. And while I’m not quite up for reading a ton of history books just yet, I am looking up all the characters on The Gilded Age to see which ones are based on real people. And I am queuing up historical podcasts quite often these days. For me, humor helps to keep me interested, that or being on a topic I am already passionate about. These podcasts hit the mark, every time.

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HistoryRachelle Wilsonpodcast, you must remember this, no dogs in space, girltrek, black history, presidential, you're dead to me, bbc, Washington post, lyndon b johnson, presidents, United States president, George washington, Lillian cunningham, doris Kearns goodwin, David mccullough, Jon meacham, bob woodward, stephen fry, beastie boys, New York city, the stooges, Iggy pop, Marcus parks, Carolina hidalgo, Morgan dixon, Vanessa garrison, walking, Nina simone, disney, song of the south, history, historical, women's historyComment
Erasing History
Erasing History

From book banning to Confederate monuments, preserving history, what it means and looks like, is under debate nationally. In the southern town of Macon, Georgia, the home of the first woman in the world to obtain a legitimized college degree in 1840 from Wesleyan College is about to be demolished. Does the home of Catherine Brewer Benson have a place in our present?

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Place Making, Community, PreservationRachelle Wilsonpreservation, women's history, confederate monuments, Catherine brewer benson, the Allman brothers, southern, history, macon, civil war, Alice walker, Flannery o'connor Comment