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Practicing History Podcast Episode 9: Public History with Cheryl Jimenez-Frei
Practicing History Podcast Episode 9: Public History with Cheryl Jimenez-Frei

In this episode, I sit down with Cheryl Jimenez-Frei, Assistant Professor in History of Latin American and Latinx Studies at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. We discuss Dr. Jimenez-Frei’s research on monuments, commemoration, and memory in Argentina and think about it in relation to the controversies over Civil War monuments in the United States. We reflect upon the practice of public history and chat about our joint work doing oral histories as part of the COVID-19 Oral History Project and the Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive.

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PodcastsJason KellyUCSB, monuments, memory, history, public history, oral history, commemoration, Argentina, Latin American History, Latinx StudiesComment
Practicing History Podcast Episode 1: What is History?
Practicing History Podcast Episode 1: What is History?

Practicing History is a podcast devoted to a broad approach to studying history — from research to teaching to methodology to theory. Practicing History is particularly interested in the manifold ways that humans make their history. As such, it is concerned not only with how professionals construct histories but how we all make history anew every day – through retelling and reimagining it and by the very fact that we are ourselves historical actors.

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Podcasts, TeachingJason Kellyhistory, historiography, podcast, Practicing HistoryComment