Archival Encounters
2 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProduced by the Center for Archival Collections (CAC) at Bowling Green State University Libraries, the Archival Encounters podcast series highlights items from the CAC’s collections, particularly oral history interviews, to bring voices from the past into conversation with the present. In each episode, we encounter unique stories and figures documented within our multifaceted collections, and invite a BGSU scholar or community expert to contextualize their legacies and illuminate their relevance to the world today.
(Cover art by Ben Boutwell)
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Episode 2 (Part 1): Northwest Ohioans in World War II: The History 303 Veteran Oral Histories Collection
August 30, 2022 13:23 - 51 minutes - 59.8 MBOur second installment of Archival Encounters is a three-part episode on World War II, in which we’re chronicling the American experience of the war through the oral histories of six veterans from Northwest Ohio, including John Andryc of Rossford, John Damman of Napoleon, Gordon Domeck of Wauseon, Allie Schrader of Belle Center, Pete Simon of Custar, and Jim Spencer of Bowling Green. These oral histories are part of the CAC’s larger collection of over one hundred World War II veteran oral hi...
Episode 1: Ella P. Stewart, Civil Rights Trailblazer of Toledo
October 28, 2021 19:39 - 54 minutes - 52 MBIn our first episode of Archival Encounters, we feature an oral history interview recorded in the 1980s with Toledo pharmacist and activist Ella P. Stewart, and speak with Dr. Shirley Green, adjunct instructor in the BGSU Department of History, about Stewart's life and legacy. One of the first professional Black female pharmacists in the United States, Stewart operated a neighborhood pharmacy that was a central fixture of Black life in Toledo during the early and mid-twentieth century. Throu...