#09 "A Blast into the Past"
- Link to Podcast
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Episode Recording -- "A Blast into the Past"
- Episode Number
- Students Podcasting History Episode #09
- Episode Title
- #09 "A Blast into the Past"
- Episode Date
- April 25, 2025
- Key Words
- W.E.B. Du Bois, African Americans, The Souls of Black Folk, double consciousness, Black life
- Episode Introduction
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, after slavery. He had lighter skin than most African Americans did at the time. W.E.B. didn’t have to work for his education. He received his B.A. at Fisk University and later went on to receive his PhD from Harvard University. After receiving his PhD he taught at several universities. He also wrote multiple works on the history of Black life in the U.S. He wrote these works from a historical and sociological aspect. He first attained international acclaim through his participation in the First Pan-African Conference in 1990. In 1903, Du Bois published a book titled “The Souls of Black Folk”, which highlights “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” Throughout the book he explains what it’s like to be a person of color living in a duality, “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self” (Dubois). He introduces the ideas of life behind the racial veil and the concept of “double-consciousness.” This is the experience of seeing oneself through the perspective of others, which have become essential to discussions on race in America. “The Soul of Black Folk” evaluates the progress of Black Americans, the challenges they face, and the potential for further advancement as the country moved into the twentieth century.
- Hosted By
- Maddy Ethington-Carl
- Host Biography
- My name is Maddy Ethington-Carl and I am a student at The University of South. I am a psychology major and planning to get a minor in business and economics. I enjoy learning about history because I believe that it is helpful when thinking about how psychology has evolved over time. I benefit from going to church and learning about religion. I tend to relate most things to how people think and why they do the things that they do. The way the brain works fascinates me and the fact that no one person is the same. Due to my love of children, I work at the after school program at the elementary school a few days a week. After I graduate school I plan on working with children as either some sort of therapist or as a nurse.
- The Show
- Students Podcasting History is an educational resource developed by students in Dr. Andrew Maginn’s History of the United States II course to highlight crucial movements in American History through podcasting. The students research and interpret primary and secondary sources to discuss pivotal themes, people, and events in the United States' history from 1865 through the present. Through creatively sharing these narratives and learning digital tools, these students hope to make history more accessible and exciting for the general public.
- Source
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Contee, Clarence G. “The ‘Statuts’ of the Pan-African Association of 1921: A Document.” African Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (1970): 409–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/216225.
Dr. Andrew Maginn, “Handout for Civil Rights Part One”, History 220: American History II, (class lecture, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, (March 19, 2025).
Dr. Andrew Maginn, “Progressive Era: Black Rights, Women’s Suffrage, and Nationalism”, History 220: American History II, (class lecture, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee Tennessee, (February 3, 2025).
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903.
Locke, Joseph L., and Ben Wright, eds. The American Yawp. Vol. 1. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903) Link: https://www.americanyawp.com/text/.
Locke, Joseph L., and Ben Wright, eds. The American Yawp. Vol. 1. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Marcus Garvey, Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1921) Link: https://www.americanyawp.com/text/.
The Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) · Sun, Apr 11, 1920 · Page 15
W.E.B. Du Bois, “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Recorded Autobiography (1961),” Reelblack, April 6, 2025, YouTube video, 27:45 - 28:15, https://youtu.be/Ooa-CzT7NWg - Contact Information
- https://www.andrewwyattmaginn.org/Digital_Humanities/s/studentspodcastinghistory/page/home