Originally published on March 19, 2020 (Episode 151)
Introduction
This is a crossover episode of Historically Thinking. That’s because my guest today is Michael Robinson. He’s Professor of History at Hillyer College, University of Hartford, but also the host of a terrific podcast called Time to Eat the Dogs, “a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration.” It’s eclectic and fascinating, one of my personal favorites. In our conversation, we talk about Time to Eat the Dogs and how it came about, academic and historical podcasting, his first book The Coldest Crucible—and then we move on to the big subject of the history of science as a subdiscipline.
About the Guest
Michael F. Robinson is Professor of History at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He is the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent. He also hosts the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, which explores science, history, and exploration in wide-ranging conversations with scholars and experts.
For Further Investigation
Michael Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Michael Robinson, The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Time to Eat the Dogs podcast
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