Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Twitter/X Facebook In this introductory episode, we look at just a small clump of the evidence that would have to be completely explained away to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The purpose is obviously not to lay out all the evidence in twenty minutes, but to show that even a cursory view is damning of the conceit that Oswald was some kind of innocent patsy. The man was a sworn enemy of his environment, a serial liar, yet some take his claims of

Twitter/X Facebook In this series, we look at the periods in Lee Harvey Oswald’s life, chunk by chunk, which show an assassin in the making. No matter how you sort them, no matter the chronological order in which you take their measure, there can be only one conclusion. That is, that the making of Lee Oswald was, step by step, the making of the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In this episode, we look at the last six months of 1962, when Oswald returned from

Twitter/X Facebook Your host, Dr. Rick Reiman, interviews Dr. Sonya Freeman Loftis, M. Mitchell Endowed Chair of English at Morehouse College, on her journey to explore and enlighten the world about the curiously independent and yet intertwined worlds of Shakespeare and disability studies. An autistic teacher and scholar like the host, Loftis discusses her take on the misunderstandings between neurotypical and neurodivergent and the socially imposed burden on the neurodivergent for decoding the

Twitter/X Facebook How should we think about the danger and possible utility (?) of “Artificial Intelligence,” that increasingly out-of-control oxymoron? Maybe a report from the field is in order as we begin to look at this question. This is that report from the field, or at least a beginning of one. We may have to start early because we have no time to waste, for the sake of student learning, in getting this right. Twitter/X Facebook

Twitter/X Facebook A message from Dr. Thomas Patterson of Harvard Univerity: “Tomorrow, Sept. 17, is National Constitution Day— marking the 239th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. As in other years, it will pass largely unnoticed despite its significance and relevance at this critical moment in our politics. I’m trying to elevate its visibility by encouraging people to take my free, nonpartisan HarvardX course on the U.S. Constitution (6 brief sessions). I’d be grateful if

This is a tour of Chapter 6 from "The American Yawp" on The American Revolution. You need to read the chapter after listening to this. This audio tour is no substitute for reading the chapter.