welcome, educators

We are so glad that you are considering integrating our podcasts into your lessons. It is our sincerest hope that the resources provided below will make choosing episodes and implementing them in your classes a breeze. If you have anything you'd like to discuss with us about using podcasts with your students, please do not hesitate to reach out here.

-The Footnoting History Team

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our episodes

Footnoting History has over 300 episodes! To make it easy for you to find what you need, we have created a searchable database. Updated every six months, it contains all of our episodes sorted by time period and geographical region. Within that, each episode is listed with relevant keywords and a direct link to the episode's blog post on this site. We hope this will help you identify the perfect episodes to use in your classroom.

Note: Our episodes are created with a general audience in mind, meaning many dark and adult topics do come up. While we have tried to have our keywords make the topics covered as clear as possible, we must emphasize that educators should listen to the episodes before assigning them to their classes. Only the educator will know what is fully appropriate for their students.

View Our Searchable Database

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downloadable resources 

Don't know where to start? We've got you covered! Here are some examples of how you can incorporate podcasts into your classroom:
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• Classroom discussion questions.
  Discussing podcasts with your students can help them get more out of the experience. We have created a sample list of questions you might ask after listening to some of our episodes: Click here to download our Discussion Questions Guide.
• Understanding primary sources.
  Primary sources are an important part of our podcasting process. We want to help you introduce and explore primary sources with your students, so we have created a downloadable guide to primary sources for your use: Click here to download our Understanding Primary Sources Guide.
• Sample assignment.
  Lucy uses podcast creation with her undergraduates. By creating their own podcast, she helps them develop their understanding of the topic they choose, the methods and practices utilized by historians, and how to communicate their findings with an audience in a clear and coherent manner.  Click here to download a .pdf of Lucy's podcast assignment.

Do you use our episodes in your lessons? If you want to see your lesson shared on this page (with credit, of course!), please don't hesitate to Contact Us. We would be thrilled to take a look and consider posting it!

accessibility

Accessibility is very important to us at Footnoting History. As such, our team has personally created accurate captions for every episode in our catalogue. You will find that, here on our website, the audio player on each episode’s post automatically displays captions. Also, our YouTube channel provides the same captioning (and the font size there appears bigger than on our website’s audio player). This can be accessed either by clicking the YouTube link on the blog post for the episode you want to hear, or by visiting YouTube.com/FootnotingHistory. If neither of these options suit you, Apple Podcasts now also offers our captions through its player.
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If you are looking for transcripts, please email us at [email protected]. We are happy to provide transcripts upon request.​

Here you can see what the captions look like on our website. If you hit play on the audio player for any episode, you will see the captions appear in the center of the audio player.