Podcast Episodes
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Episode 105
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting communit…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show beca…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story …
6 months ago
Aaron G. Fountain Jr., "High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2025)
In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. high…
6 months ago
Scott D. Seligman, "The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
Today’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century, disputes were largely between Protestants and la…
6 months ago
Amanda Nichols Hess, "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" (ALA, 2025)
Episode 103
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they thi…
6 months, 1 week ago
Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life
Among the most common challenges on college campuses today is figuring out how to navigate our politically charged culture and engage productively wi…
6 months, 1 week ago
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
I’m excited to talk to Carlo Rotella today. Carlo is Professor of English at Boston College. His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End: …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jennifer Conrad on Teaching Through Picture Book Appreciation
I have never spoken to anyone like Jennifer Conrad who teaches literature to her senior high school students through picture book appreciation. In ou…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
This week, we feature an episode with Dr. Alvaro Salas-Castro, President and CEO of the Reynolds Foundation, and Founder and Chairman of the Democrac…
7 months ago