11 episodes

The Holding History Podcast presents fast-paced, bookish conversations about the fascinating and, sometimes puzzling, ways we record, share, and preserve cultural knowledge. In each episode, we and our book-loving guests tell new stories about old media.

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The Holding History Podcast presents fast-paced, bookish conversations about the fascinating and, sometimes puzzling, ways we record, share, and preserve cultural knowledge. In each episode, we and our book-loving guests tell new stories about old media.

    How can the archives inspire a multimedia atlas?

    How can the archives inspire a multimedia atlas?

    A conversation with Professor Christina Gerhardt.

    • 29 min
    How can the archives inspire historical fiction?

    How can the archives inspire historical fiction?

    A conversation with Jennifer Chiaverini.

    • 29 min
    How can the archives inspire climate fiction?

    How can the archives inspire climate fiction?

    A conversation with Bruce Holsinger.

    • 29 min
    What Makes a Shakespeare* Archive Special?

    What Makes a Shakespeare* Archive Special?

    This episode features a conversation with Dr. Gregory Mackie from the University of British Columbia. 
    We arranged to speak with Greg in light of UBC’s recent acquisition of a First Folio, a purchase that Greg engineered. We learned all about the process of how one gets such a book, where the money comes from, and what happens when it actually arrives. But with Greg, we also learned that a Shakespeare archive is really a fantasy, a gateway into a much broader discussion. 
    To learn more about the texts, ideas, and people mentioned in this interview, and to access a transcript, visit the episode guide on HoldingHistory.org.
    Thanks for listening!

    • 30 min
    What Makes a Research Archive Special?

    What Makes a Research Archive Special?

    This episode features a conversation with Fenella France, Chief of the Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library of Congress. Fenella works at the forefront of the field of archival preservation. 
    Our discussion begins with specifics about her recent projects and the lab where Fenella operates but moves toward global questions of project approach, archival organization, destructive and/or predictive testing, digital preservation, and, of course, the future.
    To learn more about the texts, ideas, and people mentioned in this interview, and to access a transcript, visit the episode guide on HoldingHistory.org.
    Thanks for listening!

    • 30 min
    What Makes an Environmental Archive Special?

    What Makes an Environmental Archive Special?

    This episode features a conversation with Curt Meine, conservation biologist, environmental historian, writer, and Senior Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. 
    From Curt’s Driftless Area farmhouse, the HH Pod crew learns about the Aldo Leopold Archive but quickly moves to a broader discussion about biography, environment, and the possibility of land-as-archive.
    This episode’s Bookish Word, bibliophile, was created by Sarah Bulvan.
    To learn more about the texts, ideas, and people mentioned in this interview, and to access a transcript, visit the episode guide on HoldingHistory.org.
    Thanks for listening!

    • 27 min

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