From April 2017: “He and Colin talk about Islam: how it developed, its central beliefs and practices, and how it has evolved since the time of Mohammad.”
Mehdi Aminrazavi is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. A native of Iran, he received his education in the United States and has lived and taught in Virginia for decades.
via Podcast 48: Dr. Mehdi Aminrazavi — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From March 2017: “Jim Hall worked as a newspaper writer for decades. Now, he’s publishing history.”
Jim and Colin talk about Jim’s journalism career in Bowling Green and Fredericksburg and his long study of racial violence in Virginia, which he began as a graduate student at VCU. Now, he has a book that examines the last lynching in northern Virginia.
via Podcast 43: Jim Hall — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Feb. 2017: “Colin and Steve talk about Faulkner, his books, and how he ended up in Charlottesville.”
Stephen Railton has taught in the English department at the University of Virginia for forty years. His specialty is nineteenth century American literature, and he has done major work on James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain.
via Podcast 40: Stephen Railton — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Feb. 2017: “Bud talks with Colin about studying at Emory, being in the White House when JFK died, and his relationship with Robert Duvall.”
Bud talks with Colin about studying at Emory, being in the White House when JFK died, and his relationship with Robert Duvall.
via Podcast 39: James I. Robertson — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Nov. 2016: “Colin’s recent visit to Fredericksburg took place in the wake of what historians should be calling the Revolution of 2016.”
Fredericksburg is a nice place to spend a day thinking about and experiencing history. It’s also a good place to get a cup of coffee. But Colin’s recent visit to Fredericksburg took place in the wake of what historians should be calling the Revolution of 2016.
via Podcast 32: Fredericksburg. The Revolution of 2016. — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Nov. 2016: “Gary and Colin talk about everything from Scorsese to Hitchcock, to D. W. Griffith and Spielberg (and how ‘Jaws’ may have both saved and ruined Hollywood).”
Gary Olsen lives in Virginia, but he grew up in the Boston area, where he studied film at Emerson College. After thirty years in the Justice Department, Gary now spends his retirement days lecturing on movies.
via Podcast 31: Gary Olsen — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Oct. 2016: “Ira Berlin has been called ‘one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States.’ “
Dr. Berlin talks about his first plane ride, activism in the 1960s, and why he chose to exchange a lab coat for the historian’s garb. Also, Ira and Colin share their thoughts about the 2016 election.
via Podcast 28: Ira Berlin — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Oct. 2016: “William C. Davis is one of the most prolific and prodigious of American historians.”
Over the past forty years, he has focused on the Civil War era and southern history, writing about everything from Jefferson Davis to the Texas Revolution to — as he shows in his newest book — a New Orleans prostitute who claimed to be a Confederate soldier.
via Podcast 27: William C. Davis — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Sept. 2016: “He is the author of ‘Reluctant Confederates’ and more recently ‘Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery.’ “
Here, he talks with Colin about growing up in Chicago, studying under C. Vann Woodward at Yale, and his adventures teaching in China, following in the footsteps of his missionary grandfather.
via Podcast 25: Daniel Crofts — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Sept. 2016: “Colin uses the Netflix drama ‘Narcos’ as a jumping off point for talking about his fascination with the deep, deep South: the Caribbean and South America.”
Colin uses the Netflix drama “Narcos” as a jumping off point for talking about his fascination with the deep, deep South: the Caribbean and South America.
via Podcast 22: Narcos and the South South of the South — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
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