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Working Historians

Working Historians

By: Robert Denning and James Fennessy
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 Working Historians is a podcast series that showcases the work and careers of historians in a wide variety of career fields. We hope to introduce history students and the general public to the career paths available to people who study history, introduce and promote historians to students and the public, and showcase the work that historians do on a regular basis. Hosts Rob Denning and Jimmy Fennessy can be reached at workinghistorians@gmail.com.All rights reserved World
Episodes
  • History Speaker Series with Elisabeth Davis

    History Speaker Series with Elisabeth Davis
    Mar 27 2026

    In this History Speaker Series event, Dr. Elisabeth Davis discusses her book, Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918, and her upcoming book on Laura Ingalls Wilder, the community around Wilder and her family, and what that story says about the development of the American West.
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    47 mins
  • History Speaker Series with Ryan Walker and the Silent Service's First Hero

    History Speaker Series with Ryan Walker and the Silent Service's First Hero
    Feb 6 2026

    In this History Speaker Series event, Ryan Walker, an alumnus of Southern New Hampshire University undergraduate history program and a doctoral student at the University of Portsmouth, discusses the concept of microhistory and his recent book on Henry Breault, The Silent Service’s First Hero: The First Submariner to Receive the Medal of Honor.
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    1 hr
  • History Speaker Series with Monique Taylor and Suicide Jockeys

    History Speaker Series with Monique Taylor and Suicide Jockeys
    Dec 15 2025

    In this History Speaker Series event, Monique Taylor discusses her book, Suicide Jockeys: The Making of the World War II Combat Glider Pilot, which describes the training and missions of glider pilots in the US Army Air Corps, who were charged with delivering soldiers and equipment behind enemy lines. Here, Monique will discuss with Rob and Jimmy her career and training as a historian and the research and writing process for Suicide Jockeys.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
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