Joe Flickinger teaches high school history outside Cincinnati, Ohio, and is the Vice President of the Green Township Historical Association. In this episode, Rob, Jimmy, and Joe discuss how to research and write local history, with examples from Joe’s writings on the Bridgetown Cemetery, suburbanization in Colerain Township, and the bicentennial of Green Township.
Recommendations:
Joe Flickinger, A History of Bridgetown Cemetery: Quietly Serving Cincinnati’s Western Hills for over 50 Years (Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, 2021) - recommended by Rob
Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (New York: Penguin Random House, 2020) - recommended by Joe Flickinger
Rachel Wolgemuth, Cemetery Tours and Programming: A Guide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) - recommended by Joe Flickinger
Gideon Defoe, An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell Off the Map (New York: Europa Editions, 2021) - recommended by Rob
All the Streets are Silent: The Convergence of Hip-Hop and Skateboarding, 1987-1997, Jeremy Elkins, dir. (2021) - recommended by Jimmy
History Speaker Series with Dr. Luke Peterson
Museum Careers for Historians: Jazlyn Sanderson - Director, Museum of Native American History
Constitution Day 2023: The Fourteenth Amendment and Modern United States History
Museum Careers for Historians: Karen Kincaid Brady - Programming Director, Neill-Cochran House Museum
Museum Careers for Historians: Karl McKinnon - Assistant Director of Operations and Chief Financial Officer, Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
Museum Careers for Historians: Buster Ratliff - Director of Operations, Cultural Foundation of the Texas Panhandle and Panhandle-Plains Museum
Museum Careers for Historians: Bonnie Barnes - Executive Director, Keys History and Discover Center
The Importance of the Liberal Arts with Tim Garrity - Historian, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Should I Go to Graduate School (MA or PhD) for History?
How Do I Write a History Research Paper?
How Do I Develop a Thesis Statement?
How Do I Find Primary Sources for a History Research Project?
How Do I Find Secondary Sources for a History Research Project?
How Do I Develop a Historical Research Question?
How Do I Find a History Research Topic?
Legal Careers for Historians: Mathew Merz - Conflicts Analyst, Akerman LLP
Library Careers for Historians: Nina Thomas - Manager, Westerville History Museum
Business Careers for Historians: Deb Gogliettino - Associate Dean of Business Academics, SNHU
Writing Historical Fiction: Paul Witcover - Author, Lincolnstein, and Associate Dean of MFA in Creative Writing, SNHU
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