History can be done by audio in the interview style of authors and historians or entertainment that teaches history. The challenges include a lack of depth of research by historians and the full complexity of historical topics. I found the most compelling podcast to be from Dig due to the focus on feminism, all-female historians, and a significant amount of medical history. The particular podcast we were assigned was a history based on recent events of academic fraud from white women passing as African or Chicana. These two historians tackled this story by researching the history of people who passed their identity as white. While the story’s inspiration was about academics, the podcast is little vignettes of people who passed as white with the sources listed on the website. In my ideas of one historical story, that would be a great podcast is the surgical history of wounds in the Mexican-American war. So much focus is on the Civil War. People like to listen to accounts that are entertaining and challenge known narratives. Surgical history can be made into sensational stories from the descriptions of wounds and treatment. People are not aware of observations by surgeons from injuries, and their treatment occurs in the Mexican-American war and taken back to their medical societies to discuss the treatment and findings. So much surgical history revolves around the Civil War that it would be new to challenge that dominant narrative from other earlier conflicts.
