A Journey of Curiosity (A Tale of Today, Episode #12)
The finale of Act II of “A Tale of Today.”
Category: A Tale of Today
The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)
Apple Podcasts Spotify Following Jelani Favors’s description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howard University in the Freedman’s Bureau [10:00], discuss the labor history of literature instruction [28:00], and mark the college football playoffs by discussing the dehumanization of athletic workers with the authors of “The End of College Football” [44:30]. To receive transcripts and other […]
Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire (A Tale of Today, Episode #10)
Fighting for what information gets archived, preserved, digitized, and historicized.
Half Castle ‘Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
An episode inspired by “The Teaching Archive.”
The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed (A Tale of Today, Episode #8)
The finance of Higher Ed in the New Gilded Age.
Philanthrocapitalism U (A Tale of Today, Episode #7)
A discussion of financing HBCUs revolving around the example of Morehouse College.
The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum (A Tale of Today, Episode #6)
The second act of “A Tale of Today” opens with a survey of the history of HBCUs.
First As Farce: Structures of Feeling In The Gilded Age (A Tale of Today, Bonus Episode)
Podcast edition of the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium Keynote by Nathan Wolff, including bibliography.
The Historical Novel (A Tale of Today, Episode #5)
Organized around a comparison of György Lukács’s “The Historical Novel” (1937) and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner’s “The Gilded Age” (1873).
Always Historicize? (A Tale of Today, Episode #4)
A series of conversations about historicisms, hinge points, and historical novels.