Podcasts by Sam.wav
We are the Samford University Traditions and Oral History Recording Initiative. Our goal is to introduce students to the power of oral history and share the lived experience around us. Listen to our podcast, Sam.wav: History Uncompressed, here.
Further podcasts by a Samford Traditions & Oral History Recording Initiative production
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Season 2, Episode 9 - Epilogue from 2019-05-17T12:59:23
History can be explored as a story, and in stories, chapters close. Today, we wrap up our podcast and reflect on how this project impacted us, Samford, and Birmingham as a whole.
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Season 2, Episode 8 - Bridging the Gap from 2019-04-30T20:28:18
This semester, a group of Samford students traveled weekly to Episcopal Place, a senior living facility in downtown Birmingham, as part of a project that aimed not only to collect the residents' st...
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Season 2, Episode 7 - Faith and History: Half of the History from 2019-04-08T18:08:14
In our last installment of our faith and history mini-series, Bailey Sharp investigates the Birmingham Public Library's archives with Jim Baggett to see just how deeply religion affects history and...
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Season 2, Episode 6 - Faith and History: Looking Forward, Looking Back from 2019-03-18T17:50:23
In the next installment of our faith and history mini-series, Jonathan Lawson and Shae Corey explore the impact of church history and tradition with Sister Elisabeth Meadows of the Sacred Heart Mon...
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Season 2, Episode 5 - Faith and History: A Different Crusade from 2019-02-25T18:55:25
In the effort to make history objective, conversations about religion and faith sometimes fall to the wayside. What perspectives do we lose by doing this, and how do historians and religious leader...
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Season 2, Episode 4 - East Lake Together from 2018-12-11T19:05
Since its incorporation over one hundred years ago, East Lake, Alabama, has come to represent a variety of places, from a resort town to a quiet college campus to an affordable suburb. Stemming fro...
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Season 2, Episode 3 - Music in Marion from 2018-11-13T21:05:01
We often say that music broadens boundaries, but how does that concept come into play? Dr. Beth McGinnis and her senior seminar class explored the power of music by traveling to Perry County, Alaba...
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Season 2, Episode 2 - Docena: Coalminers At Heart from 2018-10-23T20:45:34
Fifteen minutes outside downtown Birmingham, the quiet town of Docena, Alabama, sits next to a long-defunct mine. Its inhabitants still burst with stories about the vibrant company town, just as th...
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Season 2, Episode 1 - Docena: Stories from Behind the Recorder from 2018-09-13T00:00
Oral history is known for uncovering and preserving little-known, personal stories, but what happens when the process itself becomes its own story? In our first episode of the new season, hear us d...
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