Jan 29, 2019
Jon Bachman stops by again to talk with Colin about a film he recently saw and is excited about, Rumble: Native Americans Who Rocked the World. Jon discusses Link Wray's Virginia connections, Jon's family's own music history, the realities of teaching history to the pubic, and of course, politics. It's an episode that...
Jan 25, 2019
John Heckman is the Tattooed Historian. He is prone to go "all in" when it comes to his work. But as he tells Colin, it took him a while before he decided history was what he wanted to do with his life. Despite the fact that he was running a Civil War artillery unit as a living historian in his teens, he tried...
Jan 13, 2019
Over the past thirty years, Brian Palmer has worked at various jobs around the globe as a journalist, filmmaker, photographer, and teacher. He is based in Richmond now, but he is originally from the northeast, where he attended Brown University. Since then, he has covered news in places as diverse as China and...
Jan 11, 2019
In preparation for a talk he recently gave at an undisclosed location, Colin talks about his career as an archivist, which began in 2007 at the Virginia Historical Society and has continued on to Smith College, the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and Stratford Hall. What's it like being an archivist, and how does...
Jan 4, 2019
Dave Coogan is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also the editor of Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail, which collects stories from various people who who found themselves in the criminal justice system in Richmond. A native of New England, Dave talks about how he ended up in Virginia...