Outspoken: A COPH Podcast

In Episode Nineteen, Dr. Benjamin Cawthra sits down with graduate students, Luca Azuma, Fernando Lopez, and Melanie Vigil to discuss Mapping Confederate Monuments, a web-based archive created by students in Cawthra’s Introduction to Public History class at Cal State Fullerton. The project examines the creation, history, and current status of 40+ Confederate monuments. The students share their research, reflect on the recent protests for racial justice, and talk about how the Confederacy has been remembered in public spaces and the current debate over the removal of Confederate monuments. Later, in our Out of the Archives segment, archivist Natalie Garcia presents oral history clips from interviews with Judge Loren Miller, Melina Abdullah, Regine Smith, and Matt Gush.

In Episode Seventeen, COPH archivist, Natalie Navar-Garcia sits down with 2019 Hansen Lecturer, Greg Williams. As director of Archives and Special Collections at CSU Dominguez Hills, Williams has spent the last several years working on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD.com). In this interview, he talks about how the project got started; describes his own history with archives; and provides some advice for aspiring archivists. Later in the episode, Natalie Navar-Garcia introduces clips from our Japanese American oral history project.

In this episode, Dr. Cawthra sits down with graduate students, Cynthia Castaneda and Scotty Coyne, to talk about the history of the Orange County Great Park (OCGP), once the home of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. The students talk about developing an interpretive site plan for OCGP as part of Dr. Cawthra's 2018 public history class, and how they incorporated research from COPH's El Toro Oral History Project. Later in the episode, COPH archivist Natalie Navar introduces several clips from men and women stationed at El Toro.

In Episode Thirteen, COPH director, Dr. Natalie Fousekis, joins Dr. Benjamin Cawthra to recap the results of the 2018 midterm elections. They discuss the current political climate and its effect on the midterms, as well as the record number of women elected to Congress, and the shift from red to blue in Orange County. Relevant oral history clips from Dr. Fousekis' Women, Politics, and Activism project are featured throughout and include: Gloria Molina, Katherine Spillar, Kelsey Brewer, Michelle Antenesse, and Mary Ann Gaido.

In Episode Eleven, Dr. Benjamin Cawthra talks with graduate students, Jessica Buckle and Helen Yoshida about their experience conducting interviews for the Women, Politics, and Activism oral history project, and sharing their research as part of a panel presentation for the annual Southwest Oral History Association conference, held right here on the Cal State Fullerton campus. Music: www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

In Episode Nine Dr. Cawthra sits down with author, documentarian, and 2017 Hansen Lecturer, Sam Stephenson to discuss his latest book, "Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View"--the culmination of over two decades of research into the life and work of pioneering photographer, W. Eugene Smith. Stephenson also talks about his upbringing in North Carolina, how he got involved in documentary work, and his experience conducting hundreds of oral histories.

9. Angelica Salas by COPH

Ada Briceño speaking about the community of Latinas who work together to overcome injustices