Podcast Categories: Religion & Spirituality

Life’s harsh reality and a rich storytelling tradition have given rise to a host of otherworldly beings. As distinct from one another as you and me, ghosts, haints, witches, and boogers have tricked, vexed, consoled, troubled, frightened, and entertained generations of Appalachians. From the collections of the Archives of Appalachia, the following playlist is a sampling of stories depicting these shadowy figures.

This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the Tudor and Stuart monarchies; rebellion, popular protest and civil war; witchcraft; education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government.

One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as “the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven” in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its “officials” but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to.
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans…all of them

A podcast in which two sisters geek out about their favorite moments in history.

A spiritual crisis grips the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 that results in the deaths of twenty-five people and effectively ended a budding American theocracy. Remarkable Providences dives deep into the climate of purity and resentment that generated one of the most enduring–and misunderstood–American myths. Kate Devorak, a former Salem tour guide and current Salem nerd, takes us through the story of how fear, greed, prejudice, and zeal caused a community to nearly destroy itself from the inside out.
Remarkable Providences is a podcast about Puritans and pettiness, magic and misogyny, gospel and government, and, of course, the Salem Witch Trials.