Working Historians
Working Historians
Robert Denning and James Fennessy
Gregory Robinson - Adjunct Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University
34 minutes Posted Jul 24, 2020 at 12:00 am.
(October 1967)
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Dr. Gregory Robinson teaches history for Southern New Hampshire University. In this episode we discuss his career teaching high school students, his research into Native American trickster gods and other aspects of mythology, his brief stint as a playwright, and the connections he has drawn between history and motorcycles.
This episode’s recommendations:
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harper Collins, 2015), https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn
Seamus Heaney, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2000), https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374111199
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (Pluto Press, 1994), http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745309477/atomic-diplomacy/
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: JFK in the White House (Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Violence: America in the Sixties (New American Library, 1968)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., “Origins of the Cold War,” Foreign Affairs
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power, and Violence in America (1969)
Vikings (TV Show), https://www.history.com/shows/vikings
New Books Network, https://newbooksnetwork.com/