Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Read for you by the host of Audiblyspeaking, Dr. Richard Reiman Your professor, Dr. Reiman, continues his narration of this classic novel, with “The Mail,” chapter two.  In this chapter we meet some of the characters in the novel.  I hope you enjoy this addition to the Breakaway Cafe in the course.

The Breakaway Cafe is the name for a place to chill in this course. In this time of Covid sometimes we all need to take a break. Breakaway Cafe is such a place. Historians are people who tell (true) stories. But in Breakaway Cafe, I tell short stories that are often fiction, narrated by yours truly just because yours truly wants to tell them. You DO NOT have to pay any attention to Breakaway Cafe...

Twitter Facebook The following podcast is a feature of “Constitution Day 2020” at South Georgia State College. As a result of the pandemic, the different elements of the event are presented in a manner consistent with safety and social distancing. The South Georgia College website ( http://www.sgsc.edu ) contains a webpage with more information on the displays for Constitution Day that appear phys...

Twitter Facebook Make sure that you follow the rubric questions exactly in writing your Reflection post on Darcy Frey’s “The Last Shot.” This assignment will have you using GALILEO on your SGSC web site to help answer one of the rubric questions. See the grading rubric in the Advance Organizer for this Reflection assignment for more information about this assignment. Twitter Face...

Twitter Facebook Here I discuss student reactions in the past to Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 article on “White Privilege.” Some students have said that this article is out of date and does not really apply to today.  Or is that reaction just a dodge to avoid recognizing the reality of white privilege?  Such avoidance may actually “prove” McIntosh’s case.&nbs...

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Twitter Facebook In this podcast episode I discuss how you can best approach the article by Anna Quindlen, “How Reading Changed My Life,” and write a Reflection post to complete the assignment and achieve the highest grade you can possibly earn. Good luck! Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook You can find the questions in the grading rubric for this assignment that you need to answer about Francisco Jimenez’s childhood.  In this podcast episode, I merely discuss the strategies that you should use to find the answers to these questions. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook In this podcast we look at how primary sources, in this case an audio recording purporting to be from Dealey plaza during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, can raise questions tentatively resolved through inference.  In this case, the inference proved correct, confirmed by additional research. Twitter Facebook

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Twitter Facebook Click Here for Episode Transcript What are the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union, as well as the prospects for its long-term survival? Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook The Cold War from 1962 to 1991. Photo of Mikhail Gorbachev, final president of the Soviet Union.  Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook We look at the Cold War from 1945 to 1962 in this podcast. Refer to your Unit 6, Discussion 2 assignment in GeorgiaVIEW for the question that you must answer for this assignment. Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript Culture in art and ideas. Guernica, by Pablo Picasso “Falling Water.” by Frank Lloyd Wright Gustav Klimt, “The Kiss” Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode What were the causes of the Holocaust? What was it? What was its nature? How does it represent a new crime in history? What does it say about so-called Western “civilization?” We explore all these questions in this important podcast episode in our course.   Holocaust Memorial. Miami, Florida Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode In this podcast we trace the major events of the Second World War. This podcast will help you answer the Discussion assignment question that you have for the Unit 5, Discussion 4 of this course. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Why did the first World War not end in 1919 and really only ended in 1945, by which time it was called the Second World War? This podcast helps you answer this question.   The Versailles Treaty Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Joan Dudley, “Under the swastika,: A Protest against Fascism hat were the six features of Fascism? In this podcast, we learn what ideas Fascism consisted of and how it arose during the years in-between the two World Wars and set the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War.         Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook From the First World War’s beginning to the Second World War’s End. Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Great Britain encourages a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump in to the swimming pool of imperialism… “The Duty of Great Nations,” by Udo Keppler (1899). John Bull of Great Britain is encouraging a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump on the imperialism bandwagon with England. Soon, Uncle Sam would practice imperialism himself. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Albert Einstein becomes an American citizen (October 1940) Between the 1889s and 1914, revolutionary changes occurred in our understanding of science, psychology and physics… Einstein becomes a US citizen. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook The theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, presented in the Communist Manifesto  (1848), was yet another theory of progress so popular in the nineteenth century, along with Darwinism, Positivism and nationalism. Marxism was popular with the proletarians created by the Industrial Revolution, because it predicted that they would one day win a successful proletarian revolution aga...

Twitter Facebook Here is a link to a transcript of this Episode Who was Charles Darwin, this Newton of the Nineteenth century? And what was his theory of the evolution of species by natural selection. How did it impact virtually every aspect of Western Civilization, from political ideologies to psychology and philosophy? In this special landmark podcast, Dr. Reiman explores his significance. Darwi...

Twitter Facebook ationalism took a dark turn for the worse after 1848. Nations that came into existence after 1848–such as Germany and Italy–were unified by military monarchies adopting the strategies of statecraft and war. In this podcast, Dr. Reiman traces the ways in which these two nations buried liberalism in their countries and strengthened autocratic government between 1848 and 1871, lighti...

Twitter Facebook The Revolutions of 1848 in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome were the last liberal national revolutions in Europe because they all failed, and because they all raised the specter of a new kind of revolution, revolution by the communist proletariat. In this podcast, you will prepare for the Unit 3, Discussion 5 assignment by understanding the causes and consequences of these events, a...