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With Good Reason
Each week on With Good Reason we explore a world of ideas with leading scholars in literature, history, science, philosophy, and the arts. With Good Reason is created by Virginia Humanities and the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium.
Episodes
With Good ReasonScience Out in the World
There’s a lot to learn in science class: the periodic table, the stages of a butterfly, but also how to be an American citizen. Alix Fink (Longwood University)…
With Good ReasonFriendsgiving
For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwell family?…
With Good ReasonMeet Your Maker
During the holiday season, it feels like more and more consumers are skipping the department stores and opting for handcrafted goods instead. Ben Brewer (James…
With Good ReasonMeet Your Maker
During the holiday season, it feels like more and more consumers are skipping the department stores and opting for handcrafted goods instead. Ben Brewer (James…
With Good ReasonGiving Birth While Black
Dr. Rochanda Mitchell is an expert in fetal medicine. She’s also a black woman pregnant with her first child who understands all too well that even highly…
With Good ReasonThe Empathy Tours
Jalane Schmidt (University of Virginia) recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One…
With Good ReasonStories to Tell in the Dark
A yellow-eyed witch who sucks the life from unknowing strangers; fish-obsessed ghosts who lure lone men to a watery death; and ghosts who call out in the voice…
With Good ReasonThe Conflicting Ideals of Jefferson's Architecture
The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, women, and…
With Good ReasonMonsters in the Classroom
What is a Hogzilla Chuck Norris Duck Ape? It’s the creation of a special education class in St. Louis and winner of the 2014 Global Monster Project. Terry…
With Good ReasonRoses in December--Life During Segregation
From all-African American sports teams to pioneering black opera singer Camilla Williams, many people thrived while living parallel lives during segregation.
With Good ReasonEyes on Glass
Blown glass is one of the most beautiful and versatile mediums in art. Today, the art of glass blowing may involve up to date technology, but the essence of…
With Good ReasonUnexpected Remixes
Imagine if Beyonce had a secret recording of her singing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton, from before they were both famous. It would be epic! Music…
With Good ReasonWhy We Believe What We Believe
The best defense against conspiracy theories and fake news is robust journalism--but only if people trust their sources. Mallory Perryman (Virginia…
With Good ReasonFurious Flower- A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry
On Sept. 27th and 28th, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry…
With Good Reason400 Years After 1619
In late August 1619, twenty or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans documented in British…
With Good ReasonSelling the Sights
In the early 19th century, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling. Will Mackintosh(University of Mary Washington) is the…
With Good ReasonHealing Displacement
Dr. Fern Hauck (University of Virginia Medical System) and Farah Ibrahim (CHIP) work to connect refugees and asylum seekers with high-quality healthcare, no…
With Good ReasonTalking Hurricanes
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In the years since, as residents have come and gone and rebuilt their lives, a lot has changed about…
With Good ReasonDo Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Does the radiation emitted by our cell phones harm us? Deborah O’Dell (University of Mary Washington) recently finished a study that found cell phone radiation…
With Good ReasonSacred and Profane
There’s a new podcast called Sacred & Profane hosted by two Religious Studies professors, Martien Halvorson-Taylor and Kurtis Schaeffer (University of…
With Good ReasonReviving The Giant Oysters
From tracking tigers in Nepal to mountainside surgery on Montana’s wolverines, Deborah McCauley (VIEW) is on a mission to save disappearing wildlife around the…
With Good ReasonPoetic Justice
When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- one that…
With Good ReasonSummer Reading Recs
Your summer vacation packing list has some key items: cell phone charger, swimsuit, toothbrush. We're here to add some essentials to your list, with the best…
With Good ReasonWe Gotta Get out of This Place
U.S. troops turned to popular music as a way of coping with the war in Vietnam. The authors of “We Gotta Get Out of this Place," Doug Bradley and Craig Werner…
With Good ReasonMusic and Democracy
The evolution of social change in America can be traced through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy Mayfield, Lena Horne, and the Impressions…
With Good ReasonWatching History
On the eve of WWI, Antoine Köpe had a front seat to history. A century later, Antoine’s elaborate journals, cartoons, recordings, and collections reveal what…
With Good ReasonParenting on the Spectrum
When Jennifer Malia (Norfolk State University) started researching her young daughter’s behaviors, she realized that both she and her daughter were on the…
With Good ReasonThe Civil War off the Battlefield
The very first ironclad ship built by the Union Navy in the Civil War was called The Monitor. It revolutionized the way battleships were built. Jonathan White…
With Good ReasonGrief
When parents die, we face powerful emotions, rituals, and tasks, including the eulogy. Listen as poet Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia) pays tribute at…
With Good ReasonGrief
A poet loses his dad, a daughter empties her parents house, a coach copes with his grief after his player dies in an accident.
With Good ReasonReconstructing Danville
In 1883 a young African American worker was alleged to have brushed shoulders with a white woman as they passed each other on a narrow sidewalk in Danville…
With Good ReasonThrough An Indian's Looking Glass
Native American historical leaders, Native recipes, and de-colonizing our diet!
With Good ReasonAmerican Terrorism
In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. Aran Shetterly (Virginia Humanities Fellow)…
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With Good ReasonOur Walmart
Christine Labuski and Nick Copeland (Virginia Tech) are the authors of “The World of Walmart: Discounting the American Dream.” They say there is a disconnect…
With Good ReasonPresenting: Broken Ground
This week we’re debuting a new podcast series called Broken Ground, produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center and hosted by Claudine Ebeid McElwain…
With Good ReasonVoices of Vietnam Episode 4, Part II: Little Saigon
Some of the Vietnam War's most enduring legacies are the Vietnamese communities of America, made up of refugees who arrived en masse after the Fall of Saigon…
With Good ReasonVoices of Vietnam Episode 4, Part I: Leaving Vietnam
The end of the war and American withdrawal also marked the final days of a homeland for more than a million South Vietnamese people. We tell the story of the…
With Good ReasonVoices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland
The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. We share…
With Good ReasonI Peacekeeper Robot
As robots become ubiquitous, will humans trust or fear them? James Bliss (Old Dominion University) is studying how people might interact with robots that act…
With Good ReasonMuggles Abroad
An English professor who loves the Harry Potter books brings a few lucky students each year to London to visit the magical sites in the fantasy series. Alicia…
With Good ReasonHolocaust Memory
Since it opened in 1993, millions of people have visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. How does their experience compare to that of…
With Good ReasonPoetry That Heals
What’s the role of poetry in the face of tragedy? Henry Hart (William and Mary) is Virginia’s poet laureate. He shares how poetry can emerge in the wake of…
With Good ReasonUnfreedom
Stacey Houston (George Mason University) has spent his career looking at the complex web between education, health, and the justice system. He says kids who…
With Good Reason1619: Past and Present
400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander (Norfolk State University) explores how we…
With Good ReasonEvicted!
Kathryn Howell and Ben Teresa (Virginia Commonwealth University) are part of the RVA Eviction Lab which gathers data on eviction rates. They say high eviction…
With Good ReasonThe Human Ecosystem
These days, due in large part to the work of Thomas Platts-Mills (University of Virginia), we know the sudden meat allergy is real and it’s caused by tick…
With Good ReasonHow to Go Clubbing
Even as shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose bring that culture into the mainstream, real-life gay bars and clubs are shuttering. DJ and Professor madison…
With Good ReasonMountains and Mining
Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. Virginia’s State Folklorist Jon Lohman…
With Good ReasonNew Virginians
David Bearinger (Virginia Humanities) introduces stories of Virginian immigrant and refugees as part of a new exhibit at the Library of Virginia. Maureen…
With Good ReasonVilissa Thompson talks Harriet Tubman, Black disabled woman icon
Vilissa Thompson (LCSW, Founder and CEO of Ramp Your Voice!) spoke with us about why Harriet Tubman is a foundational figure for black disability activists…
With Good ReasonHeroes of American Dissent
In part three of our series American Dissent, With Good Reason Associate Producer Kelley Libby talks with Dr. Michael Higginbotham (University of Baltimore)…
With Good ReasonKeeping Kids Healthy
It’s New Year’s resolution time. If you’re tired of thinking about your own health, maybe it’s time to turn to the kids. Amy Best (George Mason University)…
With Good ReasonThe Birthplace of AmericanSpirits
Craft distilleries are popping up in small towns and big cities across the country. In this special episode we share a recently revived 19th-century julep…
With Good ReasonWhistles in the Mist
Linguist and filmmaker Mark Sicoli (University of Virginia) shares the whistling style of speech used in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Saikou Diallo (Old…
With Good ReasonHoliday Favorites and Memories
Tim Anderson (Old Dominion University) introduces a modern reworking of a Charlie Brown Holiday special classic. Jacqueline Secoy (Longwood University)…
With Good ReasonThe Shondaland Revolution
Michaela Meyer (Christopher Newport University) says the shows of Shonda Rhimes have changed the way we make and watch TV. Imelda O’Reilly's (James Madison…
With Good ReasonDrawing History
Sometimes, to tell a complex story, you need simple pictures. A conference at Norfolk State University has asked students to draw graphic novels that explore…