Our Views: New lessons from Williams
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We were happy to click on an Internet link the other day and find the cordial voice of T. Harry Williams speaking to us from the past.
Williams, the eminent historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Gov. Huey Long, died in 1979, but thanks to a new podcast series from LSU, Williams is reaching new audiences.
Titled “What Endures,” the new podcast series is produced by the LSU Libraries Special Collections T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. The center is dedicated to advancing Williams’ belief in the power of recorded interviews to advance historical research.
Listeners can hear the podcast’s first episode and subsequent installments in the series at http://oralhistory.blogs.lib.lsu.edu. Each is about 15 to 20 minutes, and new episodes will be posted about every two weeks. The first episode, “Politics and a Pulitzer,” features a vintage recording in which Williams talks with former Gov. Richard Leche. There also are excerpts from Long’s “Share Our Wealth” speech and more.
Upcoming episodes are “Sin and Smoke: Stories From Our State” and “We Watched It All Wash Away: Oral Histories of Flood and Storm Survivors.”
Additional podcasts will feature Louisiana’s struggle with civil rights, university history and Louisiana’s World War II veterans.
Tape recorder in hand, Williams was an obvious believer in the use of technology to preserve and share history. We think he’d be proud of this new podcast series from the center that bears his name.
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