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I was 6 years old when Voice of America first broadcast during World War II. It was established in 1941 initially focused on countering Nazi and Japanese propaganda during World War II and later played a significant role during the Cold War broadcasting to communist countries. Very recently, however, the White House moved to close down Voice of America to "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda. "To get an up-close and personal view of what's happening at VOA, we asked Steve Herman to be a guest on the podcast. Steven Herman is the chief national correspondent for the Voice of America. From 2017 to 2021, Steve was senior White House correspondent and subsequently VOA's White House bureau chief. Steve is the author of five books, the most recent of which is His latest, Behind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist's Story of Covering the President — and Why It Matters, is a 2024 release from Kent State University Press.In our conversation, Steve and I discussed why the Voice of America was so vital and why it was supported by all American presidents for the past 80 years with the exception of the current president. We talked about the dedication and diligence of the 1300 employees of VOA who have been put on leave and the closure of VOA. Steve pointed out that since VOA was shuttered, the world now can only hear the voices of Moscow, Beijing Pyongyang and Tehran and the danger that causes. We discussed Steve's appearance on 60 Minutes and his book Behind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist's Story of Covering the President - and Why It Matters.Book Availability:https://a.co/d/6zaFTL8About the Bookhttps://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/behind-the-white-house-curtain/643228

Join us as Carl Eby takes us into the nooks and crannies of the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. We will discuss the legendary JFK #112 and JFK #113, two discarded and highly provocative chapters from Hemingway's posthumous novel Islands in the Stream.We explore where the discarded material in the JFK Library fits into Islands in the Stream, who cut it and why, and how Hemingway studies would have been different if the novel had included this charged material. We also closely examine certain words from these files, such as "perversions" and "surprize" and “devil.” Eby is President of the Hemingway Society and has focused much of his research on Hemingway's posthumous work. Recently, he published Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden for Kent State University Press's Reading Hemingway series. Eby has joined us previously for an episode on The Garden of Eden manuscripts, and he also inaugurated our One True Sentence series with One True Sentence #1, a discussion of Hemingway's "Paris 1922" sketches. Thanks for your continued support of One True Podcast!

Las músicas no occidentales forman parte del cambio producido en la música en todos sus parámetros. Entre estas puede hablarse del gagaku japonés, de las músicas chinas asociadas a las tradiciones yayue y suyue, y de las ejecutadas por etnias africanas como los pigmeos._____Has escuchadoJapon. Gagaku. Etenraku. Ono Gagaku Kaï Society, intérpretes. Ocora (1987)Pipa: “White Snow in Spring”, performed by Wu Man. YouTube Vídeo. Publicado por The Met, 1 de agosto de 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksiM1wRcutQCameroon. Baka Pygmy Music. Hut Song. Grabaciones de campo de Patrick Renaud y Simha Arom. Auvidis (1990)_____Selección bibliográficaAROM, Simha, African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology. Cambridge University Press, 2004BRANDILY, Monique, Introduction aux musiques africaines. Actes sud, 1997COOKE, Mervyn, “Britten and the Shō”. The Musical Times, vol. 129, n.º 1743 (1988), pp. 231-233*DEMOLIN, Didier, “Les Rêveurs de la forêt: Polyphonies des Pygmées Efe de l'Ituri (Zaïre).” Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles, vol. 6 (1993), pp. 139-151*FELD, Steven, “Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis”. Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 28 (1996), pp. 1-35*FÜRNISS, Susanne, “La Technique du jodel chez les pygmées aka (Centrafrique). Étude phonétique et acoustique”. Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles, vol. 4 (1991), pp. 167-187*—, “The Adoption of the Circumcision Ritual Bèkà by the Baka-Pygmies in Southeast Cameroon”. African Music, vol. 8, n.º 2 (2008), pp. 92-113*GARFIAS, Robert, “Gradual Modifications of the Gagaku Tradition”. Ethnomusicology, vol. 4, n.º 1 (1960), pp. 16-19*GRAUER, Victor A., “Concept, Style, and Structure in the Music of the African Pygmies and Bushmen: A Study in Cross-Cultural Analysis”. Ethnomusicology, vol. 53, n.º 3 (2009), pp. 396-424*HARRISON, LeRon James, “‘Gagaku' in Place and Practice: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Place of Japanese Imperial Court Music in Contemporary Culture”. Asian Music, vol. 48, n.º 1 (2017), pp. 4-27*HUI, Yu y Jonathan P.J. Stock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora. Oxford University Press, 2023IRLANDINI, Luigi Antonio, “Messiaen's ‘Gagaku'”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 48, n.º 2 (2010), pp. 193-207*JINGFANG, Yuan (ed.), Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music. Hollitzer Wissenschafts V, 2023JONES, Stephen, “Source and Stream: Early Music and Living Traditions in China”. Early Music, vol. 24, n.º 3 (1996), pp. 375-388*KEISTER, Jay, “The Shakuhachi as Spiritual Tool: A Japanese Buddhist Instrument in the West”. Asian Music, vol. 35, n.º 2 (2004), pp. 99-131*KISLIUK, Michelle Robin, Seize the Dance!: Baaka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance. Oxford University Press, 1998KOUWENHOVEN, Frank, “Meaning and Structure: The Case of Chinese Qin (Zither) Music”. British Journal of Ethnomusicology, vol. 10, n.º 1 (2001), pp. 39-62*KUBIK, Gerhard (ed.), Theory of African Music. University of Chicago Press, 2010LANCASHIRE, Terence, “World Music or Japanese - The Gagaku of Tôgi Hideki”. Popular Music, vol. 22, n.º 1 (2003), pp. 21-39*LEPENDORF, Jeffrey, “Contemporary Notation for the Shakuhachi: A Primer for Composers”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, n.º 2 (1989), pp. 232-251*MALM, William P., “Chinese Music in the Edo and Meiji Periods in Japan”. Asian Music, vol. 6, n.º 1/2 (1975), pp. 147-172*—, Culturas musicales del Pacífico, el Cercano Oriente y Asia. Alianza, 1985—, Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. Tuttle Publishing, 1989MYERS, John, The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music. Kent State University Press, 1992ROUGET, Gilbert, Ethnographie Musicale: Afrique Noire, Malgache (Musique), Pygmées (Musique Des), Ethnomusicologie. Fasquelle, 1961—, “Musical efficacy: musicking to survive—the case of the pygmies”. Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 43 (2011), pp. 89-121*SCHAEFFNER, André, The origin of musical instruments: an ethnological introduction to the history of instrumental music. Editado y traducido por Rachelle Taylor, Ariadne Lih y Emelyn Lih. Routledge, 2020*SHEPPARD, W. Anthony, “Continuity in Composing the American Cross-Cultural: Eichheim, Cowell, and Japan”. Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 61, n.º 3 (2008), pp. 465-540*YUNG, Bell, “An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati”. Ethnomusicology, vol. 61, n.º 3 (2017), pp. 506-539* *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Today's guest is the amazing teacher, Civil War historian, and former Gettysburg battlefield guide Dr. Jennnifer Murray. Jennifer is a teaching associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University and was formerly an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia at Wise and served as a historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Jennifer was also, for several summers, a seasonal ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and has led hundreds of battlefield tours. She earned a BS at Frostburg State University and an MA from James Madison University before being awarded a PhD from Auburn University. Jennifer is the author of On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933–2013 (Tennessee), which won the Bachelder-Coddington Award in 2014, and The Civil War Begins: Opening Clashes, 1861, which is part of the US Army Center of Military History's Campaign Series. Her current book project is a biography of General George Gordon Meade. Jennifer has participated in dozens of Civil War Roundtables and has been featured on C-SPAN and NPR. She also consulted for “Who Do You Think You Are?” Jennifer is a member of the editorial board of Kent State University Press' Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts Series and formerly served in the same capacity at Gettysburg Magazine. Join us for a fun and interesting chat with Jennnifer Murray. We'll talk Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen, “Stump the Ranger,” college softball, Mrs. Maisel, and writing a massive biography of an often underrated Civil War general. Content warning: Brian reveals he has attended a Billy Joel concert! Shoutout to Wright's BBQ in Johnson, Arkansas! Rec.: 02/16/2024

From 1857 to 1861, James Buchanan held the office of President of the United States. It was a pivotal moment in the history of America, a bitterly divided nation that would very soon descend to its darkest depths during the Civil War.So what exactly was Buchanan's role in steering his country towards this fate? Could he have done more? Why is Kansas so intrinsic to this story? And what else was unusual about his presidency?Don speaks to Dr Ian Iverson, Historian and Editor at the John Dickinson Writings Project and author of 'Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of Civil War', published this year by Kent State University Press.Produced by Freddy Chick and Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for $1 per month for 3 months with code AMERICANHISTORY sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/ You can take part in our listener survey here.

Buy Me Coffee (please!) - https://paypal.me/greatlakestruecrimeWebsite - www.greatlakestruecrime.netTwitterX - https://twitter.com/greatlakescrime Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/greatlakescrimeAll music by Kai Engel licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For more info, please visit https://www.kai-engel.com/.Produced, written, edited, and hosted by Steve from Great Lakes True Crime.**Positive reviews really help out the show and are always appreciated**SOURCES: Willis, James A. Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State. Kent State University Press, 2015. https://www.rockthelake.com/buzz/2017/10/ghost-cat-fairport-harbor-lighthouse-eerie-erie-story/ http://www.lhdigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1136 https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=285

On a cold winter night in January of 1833, a teenage farmhand named Abraham Prescott crept into the bedroom of his employers, Chauncey and Sally Cochran, and smashed their heads with an ax. Their neighbors in the town of Pembroke, New Hampshire was astonished when the boy explained that he had been sleepwalking and hadn't purposely attacked them. They were even more shocked when the Cochrans, who had both miraculously recovered, allowed him to continue to work for them. A few months later however, that decision would come back to haunt the family. After inviting Sally Cochran out to pick strawberries with him in a secluded area behind their farm, Prescott murdered her with a fence post. Again, he told Chauncey that only done it after he'd fallen asleep. Soon he would face trial and his attorneys would attempt to defend him both with a sleepwalking claim and an insanity plea.My guest is Leslie Lambert Rounds, executive director of the Dyer Library and the Saco Museum in Saco, Maine and author of "I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake: Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott". She not only walks us through the story of the murder and its aftermath, but also explains the difficulties authorities in 1830s New Hampshire faced when dealing with criminals who suffered from mental illness.More about the author at Kent State University Press. If you'd like to reach out to her directly, you can do so here: lrounds@dyer.lib.me.us

#PodcastersForJustice "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life." – Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway scholar and author, Professor Mark Cirino, spoke to me about the ethos of the late literary lion, how Hemingway outlived his myth, and his mission to uncover Hem's truest sentence. Dr. Cirino hosts the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored podcast, One True Podcast. He is also the author of eight books about American literature as a writer or editor. His most recent is One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art (2022), with Michael Von Cannon. Described as "A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway..." selected and examined by contemporary authors. Publishers Weekly called it “A revelatory compendium ... a rewarding tapestry ... readers are likely to come away with a deepened understanding of—and even awe at—Hemingway's vast talent.” Mark Cirino serves as an editor for Kent State University Press's Reading Hemingway series, and served as a consultant on the film adaptation of Hemingway's "Across the River and into the Trees." He taught creative writing and literature at NYU, and now teaches literature at the University of Evansville. Stay calm and write on ... Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please "Follow" us to automatically see new interviews. In this file Mark Cirino and I discussed:  Why "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life" The importance of finding your writing community How The Sun Also Rises made Hem a literary celebrity The only thing you have to do as a writer Why each writing project requires new discipline An open invitation to Bob Dylan And a lot more! Show Notes: Dr. Mark Cirino - Professor and Department Chair One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art by Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon (Amazon) Mark Cirino Author Page on Amazon One True Podcast: Hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October of 1982 Todd Schultz and Annette Coopers were in love and making plans to leave their sleepy Ohio town of Logan. However, before they would be able to make a go of things they disappeared. Join us as I tell John the details behind this very twisted case.  TW: Alleged child sexual abuse will be discussed in this episode Sources: Osinski, Bill. Guilty by Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice (True Crime History) . The Kent State University Press. Kindle Edition. https://www.logandaily.com/news/interview-with-an-admitted-killer/article_5a24e8a3-98c4-54ee-83ca-35812a923ac0.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/11/wrongly-convicted-ohio-man-death-row https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=752447.pdf https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2009/08/16/evil-urges/23297664007/ https://www.athensmessenger.com/news/logan-man-sentenced-in-1982-double-murder/article_77f06bca-d1a7-552e-83fa-6ac880893b2e.html https://casetext.com/case/state-v-mcknight-2013

Joyce Harrison is Editor-in-Chief at the University Press of Kansas. She has nearly thirty years of experience in the publishing industry, and she has done it all: contracts and subsidiary rights, foreign rights, acquisitions, and editor in chief. Joyce started as an assistant editor at the University of Chicago Press, and has served as an acquisitions editor at the University of Michigan Press, the University of South Carolina Press, the University of Tennessee Press, and Kent State University Press. She was editor-in-chief at the University Press of Kentucky before moving to The Ranch at Lawrence in 2016. Growing up near Baltimore, Joyce earned a BA in music with a concentration in music history at Towson University in Maryland, and she went on to earn an MA in musicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Before joining the university press world, she started a PhD program in music history and theory at the University of Chicago and remains an avid jazz and classical music fan. Joyce is always willing to share her insights into the publishing industry and has done so in several venues, including panels at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Military History, and the Southern Historical Association, among others. Joyce has served in various capacities with the Association of University Presses, including helping organize University Press Week and hosting webinars with agents. Joyce is an amazing resource on scholarly book publishing and the direction and trends of military history. Join us for a very interesting and entertaining chat with Joyce Harrison - including the challenges of working with Bill as Series Editor for Modern War Studies and, of course, the BBQ discussion! Rec. 02/18/2022

Kathleen O'Shea is professor of english at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, and a sufferer of migraines. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, she has also been published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. Her book, So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine Through Literature, published by Kent State University Press, August 2020, has afforded her the chance to meld her two worlds of teaching literature for 33 years and suffering from migraine for 43 years. LINKS: BOOK: https://migrainelit.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somuchmorethanaheadache TWITTER: https://twitter.com/migrainelit LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/migrainelit PsychologyToday: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/kathleen-o-shea PODCAST MOMENTS: 1:08 Introduction 3:13 Personal Background 6:15 Experience with Migraine 11:40 What is Migraine? 19:17 How Do We Treat Migraine? 26:47 What Migraine feels like 32:00 Kathy's first Migraine 36:00 Migraine and Home Remedies 40:20 Migraine Stigma 44:47 Structure and Breakdown of Kathy's Book 57:14 How Can We Support Loved Ones With Migraine? 1:08:14 Hospital Standard of Care for Migraine Treatment? 1:16:52 Experience as an English Professor and Beauty of Literature 1:45:47 Closing Words from Kathy

Ellene Glenn Moore is a Philadelphia based, award-winning writer of poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical essays. Her book How Blood Works won the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and will be published by Kent State University Press later this year. I've already pre-ordered my copy, because I love her careful, thoughtful way with words. Today we talked about the intersection between poetry and fantasy genres, truth and gaslighting, and how a body holds on to trauma.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Ellene Glenn Moore Website/Instagram   Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!   Discussed in this episode: How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore   The Graceling Realm Series by Kristin Cashore: Graceling (Book 1) (This one will be available this November as a graphic novel) Fire (Book 2) Bitterblue (Book 3) Winterkeep (Book 4)   Shel Silverstein Ogden Nash A.A. Milne Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (Ellene is really enjoying this one on audio) Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

Ellene Glenn Moore is a Philadelphia based, award-winning writer of poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical essays. Her book How Blood Works won the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and will be published by Kent State University Press later this year. I've already pre-ordered my copy, because I love her careful, thoughtful way with words. Today we talked about the intersection between poetry and fantasy genres, truth and gaslighting, and how a body holds on to trauma.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Ellene Glenn Moore Website/Instagram   Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!   Discussed in this episode: How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore   The Graceling Realm Series by Kristin Cashore: Graceling (Book 1) (This one will be available this November as a graphic novel) Fire (Book 2) Bitterblue (Book 3) Winterkeep (Book 4)   Shel Silverstein Ogden Nash A.A. Milne Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (Ellene is really enjoying this one on audio) Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

This week on Elevations, we interview author Gordon H. Shufelt on his new book The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875. The book is currently out now from Kent State University Press.

This episode takes us to Cleveland, Ohio for the 1951 disappearance of Beverly Potts. Anyone with information on the disappearance of Beverly Potts is urged to contact the Cleveland Police Department at (216) 621-1234. You may also contact Crime Stoppers of Cuyahoga County at (216) 252-7463 or http://25crime.com/.All music by Kai Engel used under Creative Commons license. For more info, please visit https://www.kai-engel.com/.Buy Me Coffee (please!) - https://paypal.me/greatlakestruecrime Website - www.greatlakestruecrime.netTwitterX - https://twitter.com/greatlakescrime Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/greatlakescrimeFive-star reviews are always appreciated!Episode Sources:Badal, James. The Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts. The Kent State University Press, 2005.Local Girl's Disappearance Remains Mystery Years LaterPlain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - March 28, 2018Author/Byline: Tom Feran Section: News Page: A8Letter May Solve Beverly Potts CasePlain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - February 26, 1994Author/Byline: Mark Gillispie Section: National Page: 1ABeverly Potts' disappearance affected her sister throughout her lifePlain Dealer, The: Web Edition Articles (Cleveland, OH) - August 24, 2015Author/Byline: Evan MacDonald, Northeast Ohio Media Group Section: Metrohttps://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015/08/64_years_later_a_possible_brea.html https://charleyproject.org/case/beverly-rose-potts https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015/08/64_years_later_a_possible_brea.html

At the height of the Great Depression, nearly every family was affected in some way. Many were forced to leave their homes and move into makeshift shantytowns. "Hoovervilles", as they were o referred to back then were often made up of a mixture of petty criminals and the working poor, all struggling to survive. In Cleveland, Ohio, that struggle was made even harder when a depraved murderer made Kingsbury Run their hunting ground.  Don't miss an episode! Hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBE! Social Media:  Email: 3AMysteryClub@gmail.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/3AMClubPod1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@3AMClubPod Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJpkMP9x/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3AMMC Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/3AMysteryClub   Sources: The Cleveland Torso Murderer. (2019, June 21). Unsolved Casebook. https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/the-cleveland-torso-murderer/   Contributors to Wikimedia projects. (2020, December 19). Cleveland Torso Murderer. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer     Torso Murders - Cleveland Police Museum. (n.d.). Cleveland Police Museum. Retrieved December 27, 2020, from https://www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org/collections/torso-murders/   Badal, J. J. (2001). In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland’s Torso Murders. Kent State University Press.      

Episode 10: OHIO IS PROUD OF BEING WEIRD Host Kat Klockow is joined by cohorts Jen Koehler and Christina Wald for our supernatural 10th episode features James A Willis, the author of Weird Ohio, Haunted Ohio, and many others! https://strangeandspookyworld.com/ https://www.ghostsofohio.org/ @jamesawillis on Twitter A little about James A. Willis: Fueled by a steady childhood diet of Boo Berry cereal, Creepy magazine, and late-night Vincent Price movies, Willis soon developed a taste for the unexplained and quickly began seeking out all things strange and spooky. He is the co-author of Weird Ohio (2005) and Weird Indiana (2008) and was also a contributing author to Weird US (2004), Weird Hauntings (2006), Weird US II: The ODDyssey Continues (2008), and Weird Encounters (2010). Willis' unique and offbeat writing style was officially recognized in 2006 with his induction into the Grand Order of Weird Writers. In addition, Willis has been a contributing author to several books in the Armchair Reader series, including Weird, Scary & Unusual (2008), Armchair Reader Goes Hollywood (2010), and Haunted America (2011). In 2012, Willis struck out on his own with the publication of Haunted Indiana. For 2013's The Big Book Of Ohio Ghost Stories, Willis crisscrossed Ohio to bring readers over 75 of the Buckeye state's most famous (and infamous) ghosts. Willis' latest project, Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State, was a joint effort with Kent State University Press. Released in late 2015, the book approached hauntings and ghost stories from a historical perspective and chronicled Willis' personal experiences when locked inside of some of Ohio's most haunted locations. He also is the founder of the Ghosts of Ohio Paranormal Investigation and Research Team as well as a friend to the Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities comics anthology! We talk about his scariest ghost hunting experience, why every state has its own version of various urban legends, and why Ohio is proud of its weirdness! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Thanksgiving should be a time to remember the indigenous people of our country rather than the story woven around the origin of the holiday. One way to give thanks is a ghost supper, which many native people are adopting. “One major difference I was taught is that the barrier between the living and the spirit world is weaker during this season. We take advantage of this so the entire extended family can eat together. The more I grew, the more families, we went to and we participated in more host ghost suppers. It would become a perpetual event that would be celebrated over the course of late October through early December.” Read more: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinion/contributors/viewpoints/2019/11/25/viewpoint-ghost-supper-like-thanksgiving-native-people/4236769002/ https://strangeandspookyworld.com/category/crybaby-bridges/ Weird Things Link: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/we-are-not-alone-mysterious-object-found-during-sheep-count?fbclid=IwAR2dU2zatpafHNixikUV0pskdJnMoizg1qDKCBaLSMEjLaEghBeACcbd-1E Email us your hometown haunt story and we will read it on our next episode! cincycuriosities@gmail.com Drops every Wednesday at midnight! Follow us on Social: @cincabinetcurio (twitter) @cincycabinetofcuriosities (instagram) Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities (facebook) Follow Kat: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/witches-sorcerers-/list?title_no=417865 Follow Christina: https://embracethecrone.com/ Follow Jen: https://society6.com/jenkoehlerart?fb

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode features a conversation with Joseph M. Beilein Jr. about his book, "Bushwhackers: Guerilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri," published by Kent State University Press. About the Guest: Joseph M. Beilein Jr. holds a PhD in History from the University of Missouri. Presently, he serves as an associate professor of history at Penn State-Erie, The Behrend College. He is the author of "Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri," editor of "William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare," and co-editor of "The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth."

From Kate:I was born in Denver and raised in a poor working family in Northeastern Colorado where I quit school my sophomore year. Later, after I had married and had a daughter, I earned a GED and then enrolled in the local community college. Six years later, I graduated from Morehead State University in Kentucky with a B.A. in English. By that time I had married a second time and while attending MSU, lived with my daughter and second husband in a rustic log cabin we built ourselves in Menifee County, Kentucky. In 1982, I came to Ohio University to begin a master's degree, thinking I would be here 2-3 years, but a second divorce necessitated getting a job, and I was hired as the university editor for OU's publications office. I also worked toward my Ph.D., and my daughter and I graduated the same weekend in June 1992--she with her high school diploma and I with my doctorate in American Literature with an emphasis in creative writing/poetry. Since then I've worked as a writer/editor in the President's Office at OU (way back under Robert Glidden): at St. Mary's College in South Bend IN; at the Ohio Historical Society, now known as the Ohio History Center, in Columbus; at the Ohioana Library, a small specialty library in Columbus that collects books by Ohio authors and about Ohio and Ohioans where I served as a book review editor for the Ohioana Quarterly; and at the College of Health Sciences and Professions back here in Athens. In 2007, I started a freelance writing/editing business called Textual Healing, which is still going strong, and in my free time, I still write book reviews for the Ohioana Quarterly and transcribe materials for the Library of Congress's Crowdsourcing program.My work has appeared in the Great River Review, Kenyon Review Online, Valparaiso Review, New Ohio Review, West Branch, and Cumberland River Review, among others. I have published two chapbooks: The Lazarus Method, under the name of Kate Hancock, by Kent State University Press as part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, and Walking Off the Map, by Seven Kitchens Press. I earned my Ph.D. in American literature with an emphasis in creative writing/poetry from Ohio University, and I currently live in Athens, Ohio with my partner, Robert DeMott, and two English setters: Maddie & Katie.Support the show (http://www.thatswhatshesaid970wath.com)

From Kate:I was born in Denver and raised in a poor working family in Northeastern Colorado where I quit school my sophomore year. Later, after I had married and had a daughter, I earned a GED and then enrolled in the local community college. Six years later, I graduated from Morehead State University in Kentucky with a B.A. in English. By that time I had married a second time and while attending MSU, lived with my daughter and second husband in a rustic log cabin we built ourselves in Menifee County, Kentucky. In 1982, I came to Ohio University to begin a master's degree, thinking I would be here 2-3 years, but a second divorce necessitated getting a job, and I was hired as the university editor for OU's publications office. I also worked toward my Ph.D., and my daughter and I graduated the same weekend in June 1992--she with her high school diploma and I with my doctorate in American Literature with an emphasis in creative writing/poetry. Since then I've worked as a writer/editor in the President's Office at OU (way back under Robert Glidden): at St. Mary's College in South Bend IN; at the Ohio Historical Society, now known as the Ohio History Center, in Columbus; at the Ohioana Library, a small specialty library in Columbus that collects books by Ohio authors and about Ohio and Ohioans where I served as a book review editor for the Ohioana Quarterly; and at the College of Health Sciences and Professions back here in Athens. In 2007, I started a freelance writing/editing business called Textual Healing, which is still going strong, and in my free time, I still write book reviews for the Ohioana Quarterly and transcribe materials for the Library of Congress's Crowdsourcing program.My work has appeared in the Great River Review, Kenyon Review Online, Valparaiso Review, New Ohio Review, West Branch, and Cumberland River Review, among others. I have published two chapbooks: The Lazarus Method, under the name of Kate Hancock, by Kent State University Press as part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, and Walking Off the Map, by Seven Kitchens Press. I earned my Ph.D. in American literature with an emphasis in creative writing/poetry from Ohio University, and I currently live in Athens, Ohio with my partner, Robert DeMott, and two English setters: Maddie & Katie.Support the show (http://www.thatswhatshesaid970wath.com)

On this episode of the podcast I speak with University of North Carolina history professor, Christopher Cameron, about his new book, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism.Buy the book: http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/black-freethinkersFollow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccamrun2Visit Chris's website: https://pages.uncc.edu/christopher-cameron/Dr. Christopher Cameron is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the founder and past president of the African American Intellectual History Society. He received his B.A. in History from Keene State College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include early American history, the history of slavery and abolition, and American religious and intellectual history. Cameron’s first book, entitled To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement, was published by Kent State University Press in 2014. His second book, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, was published by Northwestern University Press in September 2019. His current book project, entitled Liberal Religion and Race in America, explores the intersection of race and liberal religion dating back to the mid-18th century and the varied ways that liberal theology has informed African American religion and politics in the 20th and 21st centuries.Please support the podcast by becoming a patron - www.patreon.com/lifeaftergod

Jerald Winakur, MD, MACP graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, practiced internal and geriatric medicine for 36 years and taught at the The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics for 18 years at UTHealth—San Antonio. His book, “Memory Lessons—A Doctor's Story“ (Hyperion, 2009), relates the journey through Alzheimer's Disease he took with his father. He has also written a volume of poetry, “Human Voices Wake Us,” in the “Literature and Medicine” series published by Kent State University Press (2017).

In the summer of 1913, thousands of veterans of the battle of Gettysburg returned to the battlefield. Most were revisiting a time and place in their personal history that involved acute physical and emotional trauma. Contrary to popular belief, veterans were not motivated to attend by a desire for reconciliation, nor did the Great Reunion produce a general sense of a reunified country. The reconciliation premise, advanced by several major speeches at the anniversary, lived in rhetoric more than fact. Recent scholarship effectively dismantles this “Reconciliation of 1913” mythos, finding instead that sectionalism and lingering hostilities largely prevailed among veterans and civilians. Author Thomas Flagel examines how individual veterans viewed the reunion, what motivated them to attend, how they acted and reacted once they arrived, and whether these survivors found what they were personally seeking. While politicians and the press characterized the veterans as relics of a national crusade, Flagel focuses on four men who come to the reunion for different and very individual reasons. Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. Description courtesy of Kent State University Press.

In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Traveling from his home in Philadelphia to Virginia, he joined the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry and soon found himself in command of a company of veterans of two years’ service, some of whom were more than twice his age. Within eight weeks, he had participated in two of the largest cavalry battles of the war at Brandy Station and Gettysburg. Brooke Rawle and the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry would serve with the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac through April 1864, fighting partisans and guerrillas in Northern Virginia and also seeing action during the Bristoe Station and Mine Run battles of late 1863. A meticulous diarist and letter writer, Brooke Rawle documented nearly everything that came under his observant eye in 150 well-written letters home to his family. These letters, supplemented by his diary entries, provide a fascinating, richly detailed look into the life of a regimental cavalry officer during the last two years of the Civil War in the East. J. Gregory Acken served for twelve years on the board of governors of the Civil War Library and Museum of Philadelphia. Description courtesy of Kent State University Press.

Dr. John Selby is a professor of history at Roanoke College. His concentrations are American 19th century history, the US Civil War, and he Vietnam War as well as American history in general. We discussed his latest book on General Meade. 0:50 – John talks about how he got into writing about the US Civil…

The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime. Before fighting with the Americans, Lee’s defender had assassinated Johann Heinrich Rieber, mayor of Bönnigheim, Germany, in 1835. Rieber’s assassination became 19th-century Germany’s coldest case ever solved by a non–law enforcement professional and the only 19th-century German murder ever solved in the United States. Thirty-seven years later, another suspect in the assassination who had also fled to America found evidence in Washington, D.C., that would clear his own name, and he forwarded it to Germany. The German prosecutor Ernst von Hochstetter corroborated the story and closed the case file in 1872, naming Lee’s defender as Rieber’s murderer. Ann Marie Ackermann is a former attorney with focuses on criminal and medical law. Eighteen years ago she moved to Bönnigheim, Germany, the town in which the assassination occurred, and is a member of its historical society. She has a number of academic publications in law, ornithology, and history. Description courtesy of Kent State University Press.

This week on the show Eric and Marie welcome Author, Investigator and Ohioan Jim Willis as talk about his dozen plus books, some of the haunted locations in Ohio and his research into the paranormal Not since the Headless Horseman went charging through Sleepy Hollow has something come out of the Hudson Highlands of upstate New York as thrilling and chilling as author and paranormal researcher James A. Willis. Fueled by a steady childhood diet of Boo Berry cereal, Creepy magazine, and late-night Vincent Price movies, Willis soon developed a taste for the unexplained and quickly began seeking out all things strange and spooky. When he wasn't trying to coax the boogeyman out from under his bed for a photo shoot, Willis pondered such eternal questions as what happens to us when we die, is there life on other planets, and what possesses someone to decorate their house with 1,001 milk jugs? In 1999, after spending more than 15 years chasing after ghosts and visiting crybaby bridges, Willis moved to Ohio and founded The Ghosts of Ohio (ghostsofohio.org), a nationally recognized paranormal research organization. Willis has grown the organization to well over 35 members in three divisions throughout the state: Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. In 2004, in what seemed to be destiny, Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the brainchilds of the Weird US series of books, approached Willis and asked him to contribute to their latest volume, Weird US . To date, Willis has been involved with 6 books in the Weird US series. He is the co-author of Weird Ohio (2005) and Weird Indiana (2008) and was also a contributing author to Weird US (2004), Weird Hauntings (2006), Weird US II: The ODDyssey Continues (2008), and Weird Encounters (2010). Willis' unique and offbeat writing style was officially recognized in 2006 with his induction into the Grand Order of Weird Writers. In addition, Willis has been a contributing author to several books in the Armchair Reader series, including Weird, Scary & Unusual (2008), Armchair Reader Goes Hollywood (2010), and Haunted America (2011). In 2012, Willis struck out on his own with the publication of Haunted Indiana. For 2013's The Big Book Of Ohio Ghost Stories , Willis crisscrossed Ohio to bring readers over 75 of the Buckeye state's most famous (and infamous) ghosts. Willis' latest project, Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State , was a joint effort with Kent State University Press. Released in late 2015, the book approached hauntings and ghost stories from a historical perspective and chronicled Willis' personal experiences when locked inside of some of Ohio's most haunted locations. A sought-after public speaker, Willis has given presentations throughout the United States, during which he has educated and entertained tens of thousands of people of all ages in crowd sizes ranging from 10 to well over 600. He has also been featured in more than 75 media sources, including CNN, USA Today, Columbus Business First, Midwest Living, The Canadian Press , and even the Kuwait Times . Willis currently resides in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and daughter, a Queen-loving parrot, and three narcoleptic cats. To learn more about Jim, visit his websites or on twitter at jim@strangeandspooky.com • Strangeandspookyworld.com • twitter.com/jamesawillis

Bushra’s poetry has been collected in the chapbook Marianna’s Beauty Salon (Vagabond Press, 2001). Her writing been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, KPFA and in The New York Times, India Currents andNY Newsday. Her work has also appeared in ColorLines, Crab Orchard Review, Mizna, Curve, Sepia Mutiny, The Feminist Wire and SAMAR. Bushra’s work has been anthologized in: Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press), Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press), Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple University Press), And the World Changed: Contemporary Pakistani Women Writers (Feminist Press), Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent State University Press) and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Seal Press. Her first novel Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) is now available from Sibling Rivalry Press.

Bushra’s poetry has been collected in the chapbook Marianna’s Beauty Salon (Vagabond Press, 2001). Her writing been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, KPFA and in The New York Times, India Currents andNY Newsday. Her work has also appeared in ColorLines, Crab Orchard Review, Mizna, Curve, Sepia Mutiny, The Feminist Wire and SAMAR. Bushra’s work has been anthologized in: Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press), Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press), Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple University Press), And the World Changed: Contemporary Pakistani Women Writers (Feminist Press), Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent State University Press) and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Seal Press. Her first novel Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) is now available from Sibling Rivalry Press.

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Chris Cameron as we discuss African American freethought history.   Christopher Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Colonial/Revolutionary American History at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.  Christopher's research and teaching interests include early American history, the history of slavery and abolition, and American religious and intellectual history. Cameron’s first book, entitled "To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement," has been accepted for publication by Kent State University Press, and he is currently working on two monographs: one exploring liberal theology in early America, and the other examining African American freethinkers from the 19 century to the present. Time: 10AM PST/NOON CST/1PM EST.

The news includes: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, together with the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts and the American Jewish Historical Society of New England have made available for the first time online acess to a growing database that currently includes 13 Massachusetts Jewish cemeteries, with more added each week. Genealogist Anthony Ray of Palmdale, California, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Suzanne Winsor Freeman Memorial Student Genealogy Grant. WikiTree announces that it has reached 1 million profiles. The California Genealogical Society will host a family history day with Ancestry.com on 4-5 November 2011 at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco. George extends a special thank you to Miriam in Spokane, Washington, for taking photos of a tombstone there and for locating and sending a copy of the obituary. Listener email includes: Russ enjoyed the episode in which Drew unpacked a box of family materials that his brother sent to him. Lee has enjoyed the interviews that Drew conducted at RootsTech, but suggests that RootsTech provide a quieter venue for such interviews next year. Bill reports that NARA will hold its annual genealogy fair on 24 April 2011 in Washington, DC. One of the main themes is WPA records. View the schedule at http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/know-your-records/genealogy-fair/2008.html#schedule Judy is seeking advice on researching her mother's family in Southwest Virginia. Mark in Plymouth, UK, asks about the availability of apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry phones. Sean reports on the status of RootsMagic's work to import freeform source citations and place them into formatted source citation templates. Gordon provides excellent advice for flattening curled or rolled up paper by humidifying it. He also strongly warns that photographs should not be treated this way. He suggests a more detailed discussion in Photographs: Archival Care and Management, by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler and Diane Vogt-O'Connor published by the Society of American Archivists. Cheryl provides the pricing at NARA for copies of military files. Michelle thanks The Guys for their help in making contact with her Irish cousins. It's a real success story. The Guys review and recommend a number of great genealogy books: Our Daily Bread, German Village Life, 1500-1850, by Teva J. Schee, is published by Adventis Press. It sells in softcover for $19.95. It is also available in eBook format for Kindle for $9.95. The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation, by Maureen Taylor, is published by The Kent State University Press. It retails for $45 but is currently listed at Amazon.com for $29.70. The Ultimate Search Book, 2011 Edition, by Lori Carangelo, is published by Genealogical Publishing Company for the Clearfield Company. It sells for $39.95. Revolutionary War Pensions (Awarded by State Governments 1775-1874, the General and Federal Governments Prior to 1814, and by Private Acts of Congress to 1905), by Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck, is published by Genealogical Publishing Company. It sells for $89.50. The Family Tree Sourcebook: Your Essential Directory of American County and Town Records, from the editors of Family Tree Magazine, is published by Family Tree Books. It also provides a 30-day free membership to http://www.familytreemagazine.com. It sells for $34.95. Online State Resources for Genealogy, by Michael Hait, is published at Lulu.com as an eBook. It sells for $15.00 and is delivered electronically.

Philip Hoare was born and brought up in Southampton, where he still lives. His books include Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001), which W.G. Sebald praised for its “unique sense of time and place, and great depth of vision” and Leviathan or, The Whale which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. You can hear my interview with Philip in which we talk about whales, Melville and Moby-Dick by clicking here. Here are his summer reading recommendations: Having just returned from a book tour of New England – a place haunted by its past, and by its whales – I’m deep in Mary K. Bercaw Edwards’ Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works, (Kent State University Press, $49). I picked up the book in the Whaling Museum in Nantucket, an island out of time where even billionaires’ SUVs are subjected to 18th-century cobblestones in the street, and where, courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association, I stayed in Thomas Macey’s house, where Melville himself dined in 1852. (I was woken …