Washington Post Presidential Podcast Assignment Page
Each week the class will listen (at home by yourselves) to a podcast from the Washington Post podcast series “Presidential.” You can find the podcasts on itunes or at the following webpage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/
The podcast is hosted by Lillian Cunningham, who is not a professional historian. This means that she often asks questions that historians would not. As a result the podcast features some discussions that you will not typically find in your AP textbook, such as what would a blind date with Thomas Jefferson be like? That she asks these questions of prominent historians and archivists makes the discussions legit. The podcast does a fantastic job of showing both the more serious and the lighter sides of studying history. I hope it will also provide a welcome respite from sifting through pages of your text and studying stodgy old primary sources, while at the same time allowing you the comfort of knowing you are still working on your AP score.
As you listen to, or once your are finished, there will be a short Google Form for you to fill out. This will form the basis of our discussion of the podcast. We will start, of course, with George Washington. The schedule below provides the list of podcasts and the due date of the Google Form. In the first semester we will cover every president up until Abraham Lincoln. In the second semester we will be a little more selective, focusing on the most important presidencies of the time (albeit including the Chester A. Arthur podcast because it’s just a very good episode, even if he’s not one of the most important presidents!) After the exam we will split up the last few presidencies amongst the group.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/
The podcast is hosted by Lillian Cunningham, who is not a professional historian. This means that she often asks questions that historians would not. As a result the podcast features some discussions that you will not typically find in your AP textbook, such as what would a blind date with Thomas Jefferson be like? That she asks these questions of prominent historians and archivists makes the discussions legit. The podcast does a fantastic job of showing both the more serious and the lighter sides of studying history. I hope it will also provide a welcome respite from sifting through pages of your text and studying stodgy old primary sources, while at the same time allowing you the comfort of knowing you are still working on your AP score.
As you listen to, or once your are finished, there will be a short Google Form for you to fill out. This will form the basis of our discussion of the podcast. We will start, of course, with George Washington. The schedule below provides the list of podcasts and the due date of the Google Form. In the first semester we will cover every president up until Abraham Lincoln. In the second semester we will be a little more selective, focusing on the most important presidencies of the time (albeit including the Chester A. Arthur podcast because it’s just a very good episode, even if he’s not one of the most important presidents!) After the exam we will split up the last few presidencies amongst the group.
First Semester
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Second Semester
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