History Podcasts & Podcasting: Public Histories

These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.

From the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Public Historians at Work features conversations with writers, academics, artists and community members centered around what it means to do history and humanities work for and with the public.

Hosted by Jad Abumrad, Dolly Parton's America documents how one class explored the cultural history of Appalachia through the music and life of Dolly Parton.