Public Historians at Work

Center for Public History @ University of Houston
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Welcome to “Public Historians at Work,” a podcast series from the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Texas. Our vision at CPH is to ignite an understanding of our diverse pasts by collaborating with and training historically minded students, practitioners, and the public through community-driven programming and scholarship. In this podcast series, we speak with academics, writers, artists, and community members about what it means to do history and humanities work for and with the public. Check us out at www.uh.edu/CLASS/cph or find us on social media @UHCPHistory. Executive Producer: Dr. Kristina Neumann (kmneuma2@central.uh.edu) 

  1. 7月18日

    Stories from the Third Ward: The Living Legacy of Wesley A.M.E. Church

    Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, University of Houston graduate student Marquel Sennet takes us to church at the historic Wesley A.M.E. Church - a cornerstone of faith, community, and activism in Houston's Third Ward for more than a century. This church played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement, including the meeting where Heman Marion Sweatt agreed to challenge segregation in the landmark Supreme Court case that paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education. Pastor John F. White II and longtime members Carl Davis and Juanita Williams reflect on Wesley A.M.E.'s enduring legacy—and its bold new future as a center for preserving Black history and gospel music. This episode was researched and recorded by Marquel Sennet for the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.  To Learn More:  Lavergne, Gary M. Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Pitre, Merlin. In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Walker, Aswad. “Historic Gospel Music Museum, Affordable Housing Coming to Third Ward.” Defender Network, April 12, 2024.  Walker, Aswad. “Houston-Area Church Spotlight: Wesley AME Church.” Defender Network, October 2, 2022.  Wesley A.M.E. Church. “About Us.” Wesley A.M.E. Church Houston. https://wearewesley.org/about-us/. Oral Histories conducted by Marquel Sennet: Carl Davis, Wesley A.M.E. Historian Pastor John F. White II Juanita Williams, Wesley A.M.E. Church Member Music and audio courtesy of: Wesley A.M.E. Church, service recorded on October 26, 2025 Pixabay Music: djovan - "Gospel Bells for Peace on Earth" Misselle - "Awake, Awake! - (Isaiah 52)", "Before They Hated You - John 15)" OpenMindAudio - "Gospel Unity Anthem - Stand Together", "Gospel Revival Anthem - Revival Night" Lilex - "Shout for Joy" alanajordan - "Happy Happy Happy" Free Music Archive: Lobo Loco - "Go On (ID 2268)" (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), "Woke up This Morning - Jazz Organ" (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)  The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

    Stories from the Third Ward: The Living Legacy of Wesley A.M.E. Church

  2. 3月25日

    Stories from the Third Ward: The Turkey Day Classic

    Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, UH graduate students Valeria Gonzalez, Asher Gonzalez-Ortiz, and Amelia White tell the story of the Turkey Day Classic, an annual Houston football game between Third Ward’s Jack Yates High School and the Fifth Ward’s Phillis Wheatley High School that was played from 1947-1966. Relive the pageantry, parades, and excitement of the event billed as Houston’s Black Super Bowl, including one homecoming queen’s spectacular arrival at the game.  This episode was researched and recorded by Valeria Gonzalez, Asher Gonzalez-Ortiz, and Amelia White for the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.  To Learn More:  Hurd, Michael. Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas. University of Texas Press, 2017.   Robins, Thurman W. Requiem for a Classic: Thanksgiving Turkey Day Classic, 2nd ed. AuthorHouse, 2016.   Washington, Aman and Justin Thompson. "The Turkey Day Classic, Houston's Biggest Football Rivalry." Houston History Magazine 14, no. 1, (Fall 2016): 36-41.  Listen to the Entire Oral History Interviews in the UH Libraries  Special Collection:  Houston History Magazine Interview with Yates Alumni - https://av.lib.uh.edu/media_objects/6682x405k   Houston History Magazine Interview with Wheatley Alumni - https://av.lib.uh.edu/media_objects/79407x312  Music and Sound Effects Courtesy of:  https://www.freepd.com/misc.php https://freesound.org: College Football GameHelicopter circles three times overheadFree Music Archive: TILT Brass - "Waterloo No. 2 (1986)" - CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Ketsa - "Priorities" - CC BY 4.0 Ketsa - "This-Way-For-Joyous-Street" - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Lobo Loco - "Swinging Sofas (ID 272)-Remastered" - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Pixabay Music: MrClaps_Freesound CommunityDragon-Studio The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

    Stories from the Third Ward: The Turkey Day Classic

  3. 2025/07/18

    Staging History: Nicole Burton and Rikki Howie Lacewell

    Send us Fan Mail Part of doing public history is exploring the ways in which moments of the past are disseminated and interpreted outside academia. In this special episode, playwright Nicole Burton and director Rikki Howie Lacewell sit down with Dr. Debbie Harwell (Instructional Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston) to discuss their stage adaptation of her book, Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 (University Press of Mississippi, 2016). Both page and play detail the civil rights initiative led by Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). Together with Polly Cowan, their plan was to send interracial and interfaith teams of northern women down to Mississippi during 1964 as a way of supporting rural Black communities and civil rights workers. Beyond delivering aid, these women quietly fostered change by holding intimate, cross-racial meetings with Southern women, where honest conversations helped shift attitudes and build grassroots support for the civil rights movement. While neither Burton nor Howie Lacewell readily identifies as a public historian, their efforts to convey underrepresented histories are firmly grounded in archival research and oral history methods. Even so, both stress that it’s not just about the facts - it’s about cultivating an experience for audiences to connect with the truth of the past.   To learn more about the play, Wednesdays in Mississippi, read coverage here.  For more on Nicole Burton and her work: https://www.nicolejburton.com/ www.pipelineplaywrights.orgFor more about Rikki Howie Lacewell: https://www.confidencetheatrics.com/about The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

    Staging History: Nicole Burton and Rikki Howie Lacewell

  4. 2025/06/07

    Stories from the Third Ward: A Pastor, a Teacher, and an Ex-Pharmacist Walk into a Funeral Home

    Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Miranda Ruzinsky and Katie Truax – UH graduate students in public history – highlight the tradition of community support in Third Ward demonstrated through the institutions and public spaces associated with the funeral process. The role of black-owned businesses, churches and religious leaders, and public remembrance like murals are central to the neighborhood’s resilience in difficult times of death and grief.   This episode was researched, recorded, and produced by Miranda Ruzinsky and Katie Truax for the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.  To learn more:  Beverly, Trevia Wooster. “At Rest: A Historical Directory of Harris County, Texas Cemeteries (1822-2001).” Reference Material, n.d. Genealogy Collection. Houston History Research Center.  Bruines, Myron. “Walter Allen Ford.” Funeral Program. McCoy & Harrison Funeral Home: 4918 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston (Tex.), 77021; Jones Memorial United Methodist Church: 2504 Almeda Genoa Road, Houston (Tex.), 77047; Houston Memorial Gardens: 2426 Cullen Boulevard, Pearland (Tex.), 77581, April 14, 2016. African American Funeral Programs. Houston Public Library Digital Archives.   Houston Mural Map. https://houstonmuralmap.com/.  Najarro, Ileana. “Black Funeral Homes in Danger in Some U.S., Houston Communities.” Houston Chronicle, January 23, 2019.   “Our History - McCoy & Harrison Funeral Home,” June 11, 2018.   Wilson, Ezell. “Third Ward, Steeped in Tradition of Self-Reliance and Achievement.” Houston History, April 18, 2011.  All check out the amazing collections at the African American History Research Center at the Gregory Campus.  Oral Histories conducted by Miranda Ruzinsky:   Dickson, Pastor Donald, Interview, March 9, 2024.  McCoy Abernathy, Helen. Interview, February 24, 2024.  Music courtesy of: Freesound.org "remix of 45145__hammerklavier__GOSPEL_INTRO_TRADITIONAL_even_BRIGHTER_reverbed.wav" by Timbre. CC BY-NC 4.0.  "Street Gospel Hip Hip Piano - 75bpm - Bbmaj" by nnaudio. CC BY 4.0.    Freemusicarchive.org "Little Wooden Church" by The Trumpeteers. PDM 1.0.    "Free Spacy Organ (F 003)" by Lobo Loco. CC BY-SA 4.0.   https://sarah-bereza.com/hymn-accompaniments/ The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

  5. 2025/03/23 ·  ボーナス

    Stories from the Third Ward: War and the Third Ward

    Send us Fan Mail All over the United States, communities and individuals banded together to support the country during the Second World War. Houston’s Third Ward was no different in this respect. In this special episode, UH graduate students Austin Lee and James Burke weave together accounts originally documented in the African American newspaper, The Houston Informer. From the men and women in the armed forces to the merchant marine sailing supply ships and the volunteers on the home front, Third Ward residents supported their country even amid segregation and racism. After the war, many of these same volunteers returned to their community and gave back in the form of long careers serving their neighbors.  This episode was written and recorded by Austin Lee and James Burke for the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.  An archive of the Houston Informer can be found at the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School, a part of the Houston Public Library system.  Music courtesy of: OpenMusicArchive.org Don’t Go ‘Way Nobody performed by George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers and written by Buddy Bolden.  PDM. In The Dark-Flashes performed by Jess Stacy and written by Bix Beiderbeck.  PDM. freemusicarchive.org/ “Taboret,” “Rate Sheet,” “Lacquer Groove,” “The Coil Winds,” and “Ray Gun – FasterFasterBrighter” by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0.  https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Anchor's Away. Performed by Navy Band.  Sound Effects by: Freesound.org S17-10 Depth charge with water sounds.wav by craigsmith.  CC0 1.0. old typewriter sounds by Grauda 1982.  CC0 1.0. 06 Warsaw Długa street in february 2012 about 3 PM.wav by MaciekKubera. CC0 1.0. Waves by Bittermelonheart. CC0 1.0.  Day of Infamy Speech courtesy of the National Archives: President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” Speech. John G. Bradley. PDM. The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

  6. 2025/03/19

    Bridging Generations with Collective Biography: Sharing Stories from 1977

    Send us Fan Mail In 1977, thousands of women gathered in Houston, Texas, for the first and only federally funded National Women’s Conference (NWC) in U.S. History. Their purpose was to set and deliver an agenda to the president that would ensure that women’s rights would be a central focus in the wider human rights debate.  The Sharing Stories from 1977 Project, led by Dr. Leandra Zarnow (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston) and Dr. Nancy Beck Young (Moores Professor of History & Director of CPH, University of Houston), seeks to preserve and amplify this important political moment through a massive, crowdsourced digital archive. In Part I of their conversation, Drs. Zarnow and Beck Young introduce their practice of “big biography” - capturing the lives and demographics of over 2,000 delegates, 30,000 conference observers, and 150,000 regional participants. They emphasize that the success of this monumental project is only possible through the collective efforts of educators, students, researchers, archivists, and NWC participants from across the country.  In Part II of this episode, Drs. Zarnow and Beck Young are joined by three such collaborators - Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine), Dr. Stacie Taranto (Associate Professor of History, Ramapo College), and Dr. Emily Westkaemper (Associate Professor of History, James Madison University). They discuss how Sharing Stories has promoted strong intergenerational exchange, especially as students realize that many of the issues of the 1970s are still the issues of today.  Check out this amazing project: https://sharingstories1977.uh.edu/discover The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

  7. 2024/10/30

    Building Belonging in the Archive: USLDH

    Send us Fan Mail The power of an archive to elevate an underrepresented community cannot be overstated. Since the early 1990s, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program ("Recovery") under Arte Público Press at the University of Houston has focused on collecting and making accessible the written legacy of Hispanic and Latino peoples from colonial times to the late 20th century. In 2017, this effort to expand the historical record of the US took new form with the establishment of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH), the first of its kind in the country. In Part I of this episode recorded in Fall 2023, Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Deputy Director for Arte Público; "Recovery" Director; USLDH Co-Director; Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies), Dr. Carolina Villarroel ("Recovery" Brown Foundation Director of Research and Co-Director of USLDH), and Dr. Lorena Gauthereau ("Recovery" Digital Programs Manager) discuss the deep community connections and trust fostered by their approach to the digital archive. Their insistence on sharing authority and inquiry with the people donating material breaks down academic barriers, while the respect they give to each item digitized - including adding bilingual metadata - increases accessibility and representation. In Part II of this episode recorded in Fall 2024, we get to hear about the efficacy of this practice through the experience of three student interns (Monica Jiminez, Natalia Siboldi, and Yadira Hermosillo), who helped process one family’s archive - the Morales Funeral collection. An introduction to their work is provided by Mikaela Selley, CPH alum and "Recovery" Program Manager. For more on the amazing work of "Recovery" and USLDH, check out the embedded links above. See also the written publications of these scholars, including: Baeza Ventura, Gabriela, María Eugenia Cotera, Linda García Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, and Carolina Villarroel. "A U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities Manifesto" in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. Edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 2023. Baeza Ventura, Gabriela, Nicolás Kanellos and Carolina Villarroel. “Twenty-Five Years of Recovering Our Written Legacy” in Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage. Edited by Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas. Houston, Arte Público Press, 2020, 5-18. Transition music: "Por Medio De La Lectura" by Los Amparito. CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 MX. The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

  8. 2024/08/31

    Discovering Power in the Past: The Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture Project

    Send us Fan Mail A historian and two engineers walk into a conference…. Rather than the start to a joke, this is a core component of the project, "Algorithms and Power Systems Architecture: Using Historical Analysis to Envision a Sustainable Future.” Led by Dr. Julie Cohn, a research historian (Center for Public History, University of Houston), and two electrical engineers, Dr. Daniel Molzahn (Assistant Professor in the School of Electorical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech) and Dr. Sairaj Dhople (Oscar A. Schott Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota), this interdisciplinary team is united by a shared vision that building the power grid of the future depends on a thorough understanding of the past and the people and ideas behind the technology. In their conversation recorded in January 2024, Drs. Cohn, Molzahn, and Dhople discuss one portion of the project: collecting oral histories from academic and industry leaders in electrical and power systems engineering. From the inclusiveness of their methodology to the enthusiastic response of the engineering community, it is evident how productive these kinds of partnerships between the humanities and STEM can be. Check out the project: https://sites.google.com/view/power-systems-history/home Learn more about the project leads: Dr. Julie Cohn - The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017) Dr. Daniel Molzahn - https://molzahn.github.io  Dr. Sairaj Dhople - https://cse.umn.edu/ece/sairaj-dhople   The Center for Public History at the University of Houston. https://uh.edu/class/cph

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Welcome to “Public Historians at Work,” a podcast series from the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Texas. Our vision at CPH is to ignite an understanding of our diverse pasts by collaborating with and training historically minded students, practitioners, and the public through community-driven programming and scholarship. In this podcast series, we speak with academics, writers, artists, and community members about what it means to do history and humanities work for and with the public. Check us out at www.uh.edu/CLASS/cph or find us on social media @UHCPHistory. Executive Producer: Dr. Kristina Neumann (kmneuma2@central.uh.edu) 

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