Episodes

  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Transformational Voices of a Growing Region: Celebrating Community
    Jun 16 2025

    This episode features Jean Hill, a middle school teacher from Springdale, Arkansas, and her community partner Angie Albright from the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History sharing their public history project entitled Transformational Voices of a Growing Region: Celebrating Community.

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    33 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: What can we discover about the world through Ashland’s story?
    Jun 16 2025

    This episode features Kim Sergent from the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC), Ashland Middle School teacher Stacy May, and Curator of the Highland Museum Heather Whitman sharing their public history project entitled Ashland: What Can We Discover about the World through Ashland?

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    28 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Buildings of Monhegan Island, Maine
    May 30 2025

    This episode features Terry Wood, a teacher from Monhegan Island, Maine sharing her public history project Buildings of Monhegan Island.

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    25 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Living Local History
    May 30 2025

    This episode features Heather Stambaugh, a high school teacher from Enon, Ohio sharing her public history project, Living Local History.

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    26 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Tecumseh Tales The Future is Now
    May 20 2025

    This episode features Sarah Pearcy, a high school teacher from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, sharing her public history project entitled Tecumseh Tales The Future is Now.

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    22 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Building Bridges to the Past: Teaching with Primary Sources & Public History Collaborations
    May 20 2025

    This episode features Joe Brewer, a middle school dean of students in Beardstown, Illinois, Sherrie Hampton from VIT (Vermont, Ipava, and Table Grove) in western, Illinois, and Sue Scott, the director of the Western Illinois Museum sharing their public history project, Building Bridges to the Past: Teaching with Primary Sources and Public History Collaborations.

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    29 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: Political and Civic Life in Mount Airy
    May 4 2025

    This episode features Rebecca Simmons, a high school teacher from Mount Airy, North Carolina, and her students sharing their public history project, Political and Civic Life in Mount Airy.

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    23 mins
  • The Rural Experience in America Podcast: NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Landmark Supreme Court Case of Griggs vs. Duke Power
    May 4 2025

    This episode features Valencia Abbott, an early college (9-13) teacher from Reidsville, North Carolina, and her students sharing their public history project, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Landmark Supreme Court Case of Griggs vs. Duke Power.

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    27 mins