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R2 Studios Receives Dr. Scholl Foundation Grant

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that R2 Studioshas received a $10,000 grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation to advance the studio’s mission to democratize access to history through podcasting.

Founded in 2021, R2 Studios strives to tell unexpected stories based on the latest research to connect listeners with the past.

“This generous grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation provides meaningful support for the production of R2 Studios’ current and future series,” said Jim Ambuske, Co-Head of R2 Studios and host of Worlds Turned Upside Down. “We are especially pleased that it will help underwrite the fourth season of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant, which follows the lives of women who lived through the era of the American Revolution.”

Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History Podcast

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History podcast from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and R2 Studios

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is excited to announce the launch ofAntisemitism, U.S.A., a limited podcast about the history of antisemitism in the United States. A narrative history podcast, Antisemitism, U.S.A. weaves together expert commentary with narration by Mark Oppenheimer to tell the story of antisemitism in the United States over the past 300 years.

Antisemitism, U.S.A. Podcast Receives Generous Support from the David Bruce

Fri, 10 May 2024 10:20:07 +0000

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that R2 Studioshas received a $50,000 gift from the David Bruce Smith Foundation to support Antisemitism, U.S.A., our forthcoming narrative podcast series on the long, complicated history of antisemitism in the United States.

In production since 2022, this limited series is hosted by Mark Oppenheimer and features contributions from over two dozen leading experts in history, religious studies, politics, and public policy to explore how antisemitism has evolved in America since the nation’s founding.

The End of Our Hike

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Every hike has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some are short, some are long. In the case of the Appalachian Trail, one of those hikes can last less than an hour, or it can stretch almost 2,200 miles. On October 5, 2021, the team at RRCHNM’s R2 Studios began our journey through the history of America’s most iconic long distance hiking trail with episode one of The Green Tunnel p odcast. Over the past three years we’ve made more than 40 episodes of original content on this complex history and our listeners have downloaded those episodes more than 160,000 times.

Worlds Turned Upside Down Receives Funding from Virginia’s 250 Commission

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission has generously awarded $10,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down.

Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it. Just in time for America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, Worlds expands the story of the revolution by exploring how the crisis that engulfed the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century inspired British Americans, Indigenous nations, enslaved Africans and African Americans, Europeans, and other peoples to question their loyalties, challenge authority, seek freedom, and resist revolutionary change.

Revolutionary Beginnings

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:00:40 +0000

We all know how the American Revolution ends, but do we really understand its beginnings?

In the mid-1750s, far from Philadelphia, New York, Boston, or Charleston, and farther still from London, Paris, or Madrid, the choices made by British settlers, French colonists, and Indigenous peoples in a place they knew as the Ohio Country sparked a global war with revolutionary implications.

Nothing about their actions was inevitable, nor could they have known of what was to come.

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Joins the R2 Studios Network

Mon, 15 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

This post is cross-posted on r2studios.org with further details about the announcement.

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios and historian Kathryn Gehred are excited to announce a new partnership that will bring the highly-rated podcast series Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant to the R2 Studios network.

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a women’s history podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th-century women’s letters that don’t always make it into the history books. Using her training as a historian and documentary editor, Gehred and her guests dig into the story behind each letter and the lives of the women who wrote or received them.

Production Now Underway For Worlds Turned Upside

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000

This post is cross-posted on r2studios.org with further details about the announcement.

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and R2 Studios are excited to announce that production is underway for Worlds Turned Upside Down. This new podcast seriestells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it.

For many modern citizens of the United States, “the cause of America” that gave birth to a new nation in 1776 and the heroic stories we tell ourselves about its founding remains “in great measure the cause of all mankind.” But for the people who lived through it, the revolutionary era upended their lives in ways they could never have imagined. The crisis that engulfed the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century inspired British Americans, Indigenous nations, enslaved Africans and African Americans, Europeans, and other peoples to question their loyalties, challenge authority, seek freedom, and resist revolutionary change.

R2 Studios Launches Season 2 of The Green Tunnel Podcast

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:30:00 +0000

Season Two of The Green Tunnel podcast, produced here at R2 Studios, launched today. In this season we will be focused on the larger question of who the Appalachian Trail is for and will come at that question from a variety of directions. When Benton MacKaye first proposed the trail in 1921, he wanted it to be a place for working class people to get away for a few hours or a few days, to get some fresh air, and to experience the healing power of time under the trees. Today’s trail, visited by millions of people each year, is a complex place with overlapping audiences and identities. MacKaye likely would have been very surprised to see the diversity in the hiking population—diversity that cuts as many ways as you can count.

R2 Studios Receives Grant for Podcast on History of American Antisemitism

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:30:00 +0000

R2 Studios and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) are excited to announce that Jeanette Patrick, John Turner, and Lincoln Mullen have been awarded $50,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin work on a podcast exploring the history of American antisemitism.

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios, led by Patrick, will produce the project, which will be written by Turner and Mullen, both historians of American religion. Zev Eleff, president of Gratz College and a leading historian of American Judaism, is collaborating with the RRCHNM team on this project.

What Came Before

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:20:23 +0000

Episode 2 of The Green Tunnel podcast launched today. In this episode we tell the story of the settler communities that existed along the route of the Appalachian Trail before the AT arrived. We’ve chosen three examples of those communities, each of which helps tell the story of life in the Appalachian mountains before Benton MacKaye dreamed up the AT in 1921. One community was home to people recently emancipated from enslavement, another was a thriving coal mining and railroad town until the mines played out, and the people of the third community had to rally their friends and neighbors to try to find a little boy who had wandered away from his schoolhouse in 1891. What was life like in the Appalachian mountains before the trail? Listen to our episode to learn more.