Centre Point

This series of the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In the third part of Episode 3, Navy veteran David Walker talks with Tory Parker '16 about his thoughts on the use of atomic weapons in World War II and how he feels about the idea of heroism.

This series of the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In Part 2 of Episode 3, Navy veteran David Walker continues his conversation with Tory Parker '16, talking about his job as chief of the USS Maryland engine room and his views on war 75 years later.

This series of the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In Part 1 of Episode 3, veteran David Walker talks with Tory Parker '16 about his growing-up years in Michigan, his memories of joining the Navy and what he remembers of being in the engine room of the USS Maryland when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.

This Centre Point podcast series features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In the final part of Episode 2, veteran Albert Wess finishes his conversation with interviewer Adeel Ahmed '18, explaining how he feels about the idea of heroism, what he remembers of General Patton and ending with words of hope.

This new Centre Point podcast series features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In Part 2 of Episode 2, veteran Albert Wess talks with interviewer Adeel Ahmed '18 about the segregation and discrimination he faced as an African-American in the Army, including during his service at a base camp in Mississippi as well as when he was later honorably discharged.

This new Centre Point podcast series features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In Part 1 of Episode 2, Army veteran Albert Wess is interviewed by Adeel Ahmed '18 and discusses being part of the Red Ball Express, a famed Army unit that ran supplies to the front lines in Europe, as well as the discrimination he faced as an African-American serviceman during World War II.

This new series in the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. On the final part of Episode 1, Tory Parker '16 continues talking with Army veteran Alvin Perry, discussing what it was like to return home from the European front, what the word "hero" means to him and how he feels about war today.

This new series in the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. On this second part of Episode 1, Tory Parker '16 continues talking with veteran Alvin Perry, who was shot and captured by the Nazis from the front lines in France and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Check back soon for Part 3 of Perry's oral history.

This new series in the Centre Point podcast features oral histories collected by Centre College students who took the course "America in the World Wars" with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge. In this first part of Episode 1, Tory Parker '16 talks with veteran Alvin Perry about being drafted and spending 17 weeks in basic training before heading to Europe to fight the Nazis. Check back soon for Parts 2 and 3 of Perry's oral history.

On this final episode of the 2016 post-election Centre Point podcast series, host Bill Goodman talks with Dina Badie, assistant professor of politics and international studies, and Beau Weston, the John M. and Louise Van Winkle professor of sociology, about Alexis de Tocqueville, his views on democracy and their relevancy to the recent presidential election.

In this eighth of nine episodes in the post-election Centre Point podcast series, host Bill Goodman talks with Dina Badie, assistant professor of politics and international studies, about the election results as seen through an international lens. Badie breaks down the global reaction to the election by region, including countries in Europe and the Middle East, and discusses potential international issues facing the president-elect.

In this seventh of nine episodes in the Centre Point post-election series, host Bill Goodman talks with Beau Weston, the John M. and Louise Van Winkle Professor of Sociology, about the potential looming culture wars following the election. Weston touches on such topics as how a sense of nationalism motivated some voters and the role the media played in impassioning the electorate before and after the election.

In this sixth of nine episodes in the 2016 post-election Centre Point podcast series, host Bill Goodman talks with Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge about gender and the election. Egge, an expert on the women's suffrage movement, discusses how the lens of gender has impacted the decisions of the electorate, both past and present.

On episode five of the 2016 post-election Centre Point podcast series, host Bill Goodman talks with Maria Apostolova-Mihaylova and Ravi Radhakrishnan, both assistant professors of economics at Centre, about the role the economy played in the presidential race. Apostolova and Radhakrishnan discuss the promises each candidate made regarding job creation in America and the importance of international trade deals and global markets to the electorate.

On the fourth episode of the 2016 post-election series of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman talks with Lori Hartmann-Mahmud, Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Professor of International Studies, about the international response to the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Hartmann-Mahmud touches on how various foreign countries have reacted to the election results and how the Trump administration will potentially interact with world leaders.

In this third episode of the post-election series, host Bill Goodman talks with Professor of Dramatic Arts Anthony Haigh, a native of Britain, about a Brit's view of the American presidential election. Haigh discusses such topics as his views about how education level and class impacted the outcome of the election and the problems facing "the left" in American politics.

In this second of nine episodes in the Centre Point post-presidential election series, host Bill Goodman talks with John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics Ben Knoll about polling, discussing how some polls can miss the mark and what ways voters can interpret polls in the future.

In this first of nine episodes in the post-election series of the Centre Point podcast, host Bill Goodman of KET talks with Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Professor of International Studies Lori Hartmann-Mahmud and Assistant Professor of History Sara Egge about the role of women in the presidential election. Among the topics Egge and Hartmann-Mahmud discuss are what drew women voters to support each candidate this year and what potential qualities the first woman president of the United States might need to possess.

In this special episode of Centre Point, Milton Reigelman, director of the Center for Global Citizenship and longtime member of the Centre English department, talks with legendary writer Wendell Berry, who gave a reading at Centre on Nov. 14, 2016. Berry reads his poem "The Peace of Wild Things" and ruminates on such topics as storytelling as a calling and his love of his native Kentucky.

On the eighth and final episode of the Centre Point election cycle podcast, host Bill Goodman talks with Tony Haigh, professor of dramatic arts and native of Britain, about the effect of the Brexit vote on global politics and its potential parallels to the 2016 presidential election.

In the seventh episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman talks with Dr. Dina Badie, assistant professor of politics and international studies, about American foreign policy at the end of President Barack Obama's tenure. Badie examines the importance of foreign policy in the 2016 election cycle and America's potential role in future international issues.

In this sixth episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman talks about the role of religion in politics with Beau Weston, the John M. and Louise Van Winkle Professor of Sociology, and Ben Knoll, the John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics. Weston and Knoll—who will teach "linked" courses on this subject in the future—explore how important the religiosity of presidential candidates is to the electorate and the role religion has played in the creation of American identity.

In this fifth episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman talks with Professor of Dramatic Arts Anthony Haigh about the theatricality of politics. Haigh discusses not only politics as improvisatory theater but also compares the 2016 presidential candidates to fictional figures and characters.

On this episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman of KET discusses the politics of polling in relation to the presidential election with Ben Knoll, the John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics at Centre College. Knoll and Goodman talk about how to interpret poll numbers when attempting to predict election outcomes.

In this third episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman of KET talks with Lori Hartmann-Mahmud, Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Professor of International Studies, and Dina Badie, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies, about geopolitics and the American presidential election.

In this second episode of Centre Point, host Bill Goodman talks with the John M. and Louise van Winkle Professor of Sociology Beau Weston about the 2016 election through the lens of culture wars—that is, how political issues divide the populace into subgroups and shape national and identity.

In this debut episode of Centre Point, Bill Goodman of Kentucky Educational Television discusses the complexities of the 2016 election cycle with Centre College faculty members Daniel Stroup, Pierce and Amelia Harrington Lively Professor of Politics and Law, and Benjamin Knoll, John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics. Centre Point, a series of eight conversations about the 2016 election, offers a glimpse of the engaging conversations that take place in Centre College classrooms every day.