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Primary Source: A Special Collections Podcast takes you inside the stacks of Special Collections at Midwestern State University's Moffett Library with Special Collections Librarian Alissa Russell. Each monthly episode highlights rare materials, hidden histories, and the stories that shaped our university and beyond, bringing the past to life, one collection at a time.

Join British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke as he recounts his thrilling journeys in East Africa during the 1850s. This captivating volume includes his first two expeditions Journal of Adventures in Somali Land and Journal of a Cruise on the Tanganyika Lake. Within these pages, youll find vivid depictions of the local cultures and customs, along with gripping tales of the challenges he faced in the wild. (Summary by Ted Lienhart)

Historians Lynn Prince Robbins and Jim Ambuske explore the histories of the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world, from the civil wars of seventeenth-century Britain, the Jacobite Uprisings, and American Independence, to Revolutionary Haiti, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, and everything in between.

In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire route of the Columbia river, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend.

This podcast is dedicated to discussing interesting and current topics from all around the world, with guests and other experts that want to have a platform to express and communicate their knowledge with our listeners. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do aim to entertain. We have four main segments: Truth or Death,Twisted Reality, The Elysian Fields, and The Audio Forecast.

Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d’influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux. Retrouvez les différentes séries de Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d’écoute.

From Public Books and Type Media Center, this is Primary Sources, the show where writers and intellectuals talk about some of the greatest influences on their work.

Truthtelling can be an act of resistance. Join Defending Rights & Dissent policy director Chip Gibbons as he brings you the stories of whistleblowers and other truthtellers who expose civil liberties and human rights abuses committed under the guise of national security and the attempts to silence them.

A conversational series for Canadian history teachers. We speak to historians, archivists, creators, artists, curators, sociologists, anthropologists about one primary source and ask: What is the source? What is the story? How can it challenge Canadian history?

In 2022, annual U.S. renewable energy generation surpassed coal for the first time in history. By 2025, domestic solar energy generation is expected to increase by 75%, and wind by 11%. The United States is a resource-rich country with enough renewable energy resources to generate more than 100 times the amount of electricity Americans use each year. Learn more about renewable energy potential in the United States.Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

History through Pop CultureJoin social studies teacher, historian and pop culturist Eric Salmonsen as he and his drop-in guests break down pop culture artifacts to see what history can be forged from them.Learn how you can contribute to the conversation at everything-history.com

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's complete fireside chats. FDR gave these occasional talks throughout his presidency, from 1933 to 1944, regarding the Great Depression, World War II, and a handful of other topics. It's not always easy to find these in their complete form, and a few were never recorded at all. However, the text exists, so I've gone ahead and recorded the missing parts myself. So here they are in their entirety. Hope you enjoy!

2 Complicated 4 History is a show that examines the “deleted scenes” of history. In each episode, co-hosts Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by a different guest bringing a fresh perspective to the history you thought you knew.

All of the Presidents' Weekly Addresses. From FDR's fireside chats to Reagan's "weekly radio address," to Biden's "weekly conversations." Enjoy this daily bite-sized piece of American history, from 1933 to today. A variety of different names, but all part of the same tradition of personal weekly messages from our Presidents to their citizens. Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama gave these almost every week, while Roosevelt, Bush Sr., Trump, and Biden were more sporadic, but they are all here. (Presidents from FDR to Reagan didn't give these addresses.) Enjoy, and have fun learning!

Join lifelong Elginite Sharry Blazier for a weekly journey through Elgin, IL. Featuring stories, songs, memories, and anecdotes about this quintessential Midwestern town that's too small to be a city and too big to be a town.