You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
Doug Sofer
20 episodes
4 months ago
This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
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This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
49 minutes
2 years ago
You're Used To Loudmouths
Understanding the historical rise of mass media is not just about the tech. It’s also about how people used—and abused—those new ways of communicating with the public. That picture becomes clearer when you realize that new innovations in amplification and broadcasting coincided closely with the rise of nationalism in the Western world. Successful nationalist movements in Italy and Germany ushered in new two modern countries by the end of the 1870s. In the first half of the 20th century, those...
You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
