Franklin Pierce is not one of the better known presidents in U.S. history but is still worth examining if for anything the lessons that can...
The 1920’s were a time marked by new and more affordable technology, massive economic growth, a renewed push for civil rights and relative peace, its...
Spun Counterguy sets out to present the most thorough biography to date of jazz singer, songwriter and pianist Una Mae Carlisle, including her adventures in...
The singer and songwriter Una Mae Carlisle is a name tragically lost to modern memory. On this first of two episodes, Spun Counterguy talks about...
Former Cuban political dissident Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is now a writer and blogger advocating for his home country’s liberation from the current oppressive regime....
We’re going back to Europe, specifically France and Switzerland, and five hundred ago on top of that. Serving as our tour guide is once again...
Seth and Nirva Ready not only have their own musical career as a duo and host a theological/cultural podcast called FreeMind but they have also...
America’s separation from Britain is often over simplified by both those with enthusiastic and cynical motivations. But the years leading up to July 4th, 1776...
Part two of our talk with artist and preacher Howard Finster, this one got him talking about Hank Williams Sr., Elvis Presley, chewing tobacco and...
Back in the late 1970s a new music genre exploded on the world stage: rap. This episode’s guest Bill Adler was right there near the...
Recently there’s been a lot of different tellings about how Americas founding was tied to slavery. American History professor Dr. Dennis Boman comes Back By...
Back in the late 1970’s, computers programs called “Text Adventures” would appear. These were interactive games where players had to read, problem solve and then...
Howard Finster was a folk artist preacher whose work reached out all over the globe. On this recording from the 1990s, Mr. Finster talks about...
On July 11th of last year protests broke out all over Cuba over several issues, ranging from lack of food and medical access to the...
Filmmaker Todd Zeller comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about his experiences with Gene Eugene and the band Adam Again while working on his...
Uncle Paul is back a second time by the woodpile to share some more stories and thoughts from his life. This time around we talk...
Welcome to part four of our conversation with Dr. Carlos Eire, historian, Yale Professor and author of Reformations, a history of the reformation era of...
It didn’t take long for the people of Cuba to realize after the “revolution” of 1959, they were now under the rule of an even...
Henry Clay was an American statesman of the 1800’s that was so vital to the survival of the Republic that it was assumed by many...
Music journalist and insider Bill Adler comes Back By the Woodpile with a big bag full of musical Christmas goodies, including tunes by Kurtis Blow,...
Uncle Paul Buchanan comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about fire alarm candy, weenie water, misplaced children, a dog called Icky Sticky Stombo for...
Poet Juana Rosa Pita returns to the Woodpile to talk about and read selections from her new compilation of poems, The Miracle Unfolds. In addition,...
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media...
Mike Roe of the 77s and Randy Layton of Alternative Records come Back By the Woodpile to talk about the music and work of Robert...
Dr. Carlos Eire is back at the Woodpile to talk about cooperation between church and state in governing, the government helping the ‘deserving’ poor, Charles...
Singer-songwriter Jeff Graham shares his music and story Back by the Woodpile, telling stories of the legendary Jack’s Guitar Bar, the miracle of Dunkirk and...
In the early 1960’s as the Castro regime began to transform Cuba into a socialist, militarist regime, part of that including training children to become...
Welcome to the series where mostly old guys share their stories from the 1980s when we were trying to figure life out, with varying degrees...
We’re back with another conversation about the Reformation with Dr. Carlos Eire, who not only teaches this time period at Yale University but wrote a...
On this episode we talk judging and bail bonding in upstate New York and a GI in South Korea. To hear on Stitcher, click here!...