History4Today Podcast
1) Braiding Sweetgrass, Meeting 1
First meeting to discuss Robin Wall Kimmerer's book, Braiding Sweetgrass. I was much more impressed with the quality of both the writing and the ideas than I had expected to be. We cover most of the f...Show More
2) The Science of Reading, Meeting #6
This is the final meeting of the discussion of Adrian John’s book, which we had on August 31st.
3) Modern World History Introduction
4) US History 2, Chapter 1
The first unit of my Fall 2024 US History 2 course, titled "Capital and Labor".
5) 1875-Proposed Intervention in Cuba
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6) Science of Reading Meeting #2
We discuss the first and second chapters of Adrian Johns’ recent book. Some of the topics include the late-19th-century panic over the exhausting effects of “unnatural” reading and neurasthenia, other...Show More
7) The Science of Reading, Meeting #3
In this talk we cover the third and fourth chapters of Adrians Johns' book. The things that stood out to me were more about the social importance of reading rather than the research technologies and d...Show More
8) The Science of Reading, Meeting 1
After a couple weeks break while I moved into my apartment in Saint Paul, the Saturday Book Club reconvened to begin discussing Adrian Johns’ 2023 book, The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mi...Show More
9) Dawn of Everything Book Club, Meeting 1
Our first book club meeting, to discuss David Graeber and David Wengrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, in December 2021.
10) US History II, Chapter 1
This is an audio version of the first chapter of my Open Textbook, US History II: Gilded Age to Present. You can read along at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/ushistory2/chapter/chapter-1/