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We live in the age of information, but how often do we think about what has been lost—or nearly lost? From memories left on discarded machines to the voices of ancestors trapped on obsolete...

Travel to Nashville, Tennessee, "the cradle of student protest," to learn about Fisk University's activist legacy–from the Jubilee Singers i...

Travel to the Lowcountry of South Carolina to learn about the Mather School, founded after the Civil War to serve the newly freed, and the G...

Dive into Tuskegee University's vast collections, from the notebooks of George Washington Carver to archival speeches from luminaries Myrlie...

Learn about Alcorn State University student life–and civil rights protests–in the 1960s, and how a community-centered approach to librarians...

Morgan State University archivist Ida E. Jones discusses the history of Maryland's largest HBCU and how it is deeply entwined with the histo...

Kofi Amu Horne, who created the theme music for this season, started drumming with his Ghanaian mother before he was two. Here, he talks abo...

Librarian and curator Erika Witt speaks about Southern University at New Orleans's African art collection, a transformative trip to Egypt, a...

This season, we're taking a tour of the treasures housed in HBCU libraries and archives. Meet two women instrumental to the HBCU Library All...

In this season of the Material Memory podcast, we're taking an audio road trip to explore the libraries, archives, and museums at six Histor...

Special episode! Three stories about crisis as catalyst: capturing NHS COVID-19 stories; rethinking anti-racism and anti-ableism at the Well...

What did we learn? What can we do? In the season 2 finale, host Nicole Kang Ferraiolo and producer Lizzi Albert share their biggest takeaway...

Anthropologist Dr. Blessing Nonye Onyima discusses the effects of colonialism and climate change on Nigeria's cultural heritage, from the ch...

Where do we house our memories? What does it mean to lose our records? Drawing on her experience as an archivist and as a hurricane evacuee,...

Intangible or "living" cultural heritage includes folk arts, food, and other traditions. Host Nicole Kang Ferraiolo talks to media scholar S...

Victoria Herrmann, president of the Arctic Institute, discusses climate displacement in the United States, the risks it poses to communities...

Anthropologist and emergency management specialist Dr. Crystal Felima speaks about her work on climate hazards, disaster narratives in Haiti...

Archivists Eira Tansey and Ben Goldman discuss their research on the impact of climate change on U.S. archives. They share their approaches...

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity—but how does cultural heritage fit in? Hear from all seven of this season's guests a...

In this episode of Material Memory , we return to the Autry Museum of the American West in southern California, where a project is underway...

In this episode of Material Memory , we talk with a staff member at the University of Oklahoma who has been working to preserve the recordin...

Iñupiaq dialects—spoken by people in the northernmost parts of Alaska—are considered "severely endangered," with about 2,000 native speakers...

Radio Haiti, the nation's first independent radio station, gave people a voice in speaking out against government oppression while speaking...

In this episode of Material Memory , we talk to experts at the Amistad Research Center who are working to digitize the audio field recording...

How can recordings of indigenous languages be made accessible to the communities they represent? In this episode of Material Memory , we tal...

Kathlin Smith introduces the Material Memory podcast in a conversation with CLIR President Charles Henry about the threats to our cultural r...