Roundhouse Crosstalk Podcast
1) Modernizing Mobility: The Railroad and the Development of the Intellectual Disability Systems
Join us for Roundhouse Crosstalk! In this episode we look at how the development of the intellectual disability system and the expansion of railroad networks intertwined. For this discussion we sit do...Show More
2) Bid Whist on Board: The Pullman Porters' Card Game
Join us for another episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk as we explore the influence of Pullman Porters on the development of the popular card game, Bid Whist and discover the intersection of history, cult...Show More
3) Campaign Train: History of Whistle Stop Politics
Join us for Roundhouse Crosstalk! In this episode, we interview Edward Segal, author of the new book, 'Whistle Stop Politics.' We delve into anecdotes from some of the most famous campaign trains, the...Show More
4) The Sleeping Car Porter: Reimagining History through Fiction
In this week's episode new podcast co-host Summer sits down with Suzette Mayr author of The Sleeping Car Porter, a historical fiction novel about Baxter a queer black Pullman Porter. Mayr's work helps...Show More
5) Iron Giants: Chinese Railroad Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad Part 2
Listen to Roundhouse Crosstalk! In this week´s episode we sit down with California State Parks Interpreter Debbie Hollingsworth to learn about the work of the Chinese Railroad Workers who built the we...Show More
Iron Giants: Chinese Railroad Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad Part 2
35:16 | Dec 8th, 2023
6) Land, Laws, and Colonialism: Unpacking Legal and Environmental Conquest in 1800s Canada
Join us as we sit down with Daniel Rück, author of “The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada,” to explore the history of Indigenous-settler relat...Show More
7) Forging a Nation: The Canadian Transcontinental Railroad
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this episode we sit down with Stephen R. Brown to learn about his new book Dominion: The Railway and The Rise of Canada about the building o...Show More
8) Iron Giants: Chinese Railroad Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad Part 1
Listen to Roundhouse Crosstalk!: In this week´s episode we sit down with California State Parks Interpreter Debbie Hollingsworth to learn about the work of the Chinese Railroad Workers who built the w...Show More
Iron Giants: Chinese Railroad Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad Part 1
35:18 | Oct 13th, 2023
9) Routes of Resistance: A Journey through Black Transportation History
Join us as we sit down with Mia Bay, author of "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance", to explore the experiences, struggles, and resilience of Black individuals as they navigated through a...Show More
10) Rails of the Future: California High Speed Rail
In this episode we sit down with LaDonna DiCamillo the Southern California Regional Director for the California High Speed Rail Authority. We discuss updates on the construction process, what the agen...Show More