Tag: War

Season 8 Episode 1- “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive”with Amber Nickell, Chelsea Kiefer, Sarah Keiss, and David Solis

Sheva, Soloman, and Basenka Kantsedikas

In the first episode of season 8, Hollie visits with some familiar friends of the podcast: Dr. Amber Nickell, Sarah Keiss, Chelsea Kiefer, and David Solis. They discuss their digital humanities project, “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive.” This project, available here, involved collecting data from a collection of letters between a Soviet Jewish couple during World War II. The Kantsedikas Family Letters Collection at Blavatnik provides a window into the experience of this couple as they navigated the war, love, parenthood, seperation, and various struggles.

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S5 E2- “The German Genocide of the Herero” with Larry Zieammermann

History Grad student Larry Zieammermann joins Hollie to discuss the German Genocide of the Herero. If you haven’t already, pop back into season 1 to listen to his first appearance on the podcast when he discussed Lucy Parsons.

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Selected Bibliography:

Gewald, Jan-Bart. Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999.

Gewald, Jan-Bart. “The Great General Of The Kaiser.” Botswana Notes and Records 26 (1994):67-76.

Schaller, Dominik J. and Zimmerer, Jurgen. “Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide: Seeing the Global without Ignoring the Local.” Journal of Genocide Research 10, no. 2 (2008): 191-99.

Erichsen, C.W.. “The Angel of Death has Descended Violently Among Them”: Concentration Camps and Prisoners-of-War in Namibia, 1908-1908. Leiden: African Studies Centre,2005.

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S2, Episode 2- “Nursing Under Fire” with Lizz Dobmeyer

“Red Cross Nurse” by east_lothian_museums is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

In this episode, Lizz Dobmeyer, a master’s student in the FHSU History Department online, joins Hollie to discuss “Nursing Under Fire: The Experiences and Achievements of World War I Allied Nurses on the Western Front.”

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Powell, Anne. Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War. Stroud: The History Press, 2013.

Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Hallett, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Harris, Kirsty. More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I. Newport: Big Sky Publishing Pty, Limited, 2016.

Moore, Wendy. No Man’s Land the Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital during World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/