Terry Birdwhistell's guest appearances

Terry Birdwhistell

Behind the Blue

Tales From The Kentucky Room

Think Humanities

Tracy Campbell

Hannah Pittard

John Thelin

Eli Capilouto

Amy Murrell Taylor

PAMELA BROWN

Mary Todd Lincoln

George Wright

Tom Eblen

Aaron Thompson

David Rice

Joseph Anthony

Jon Meacham

Melissa Hogan

Jennifer Hunter

OwlTail

Donald Ritchie

To close out Women's History Month on the THINK HUMANITIES podcast, Bill Goodman talks to Terry Birdwhistell from the Nunn Center for Oral History and Donald Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the US Senate, about their new book "Washington's Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History."THINK HUMANITIES is made possible by generous support from the Spalding University Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing.

To close out Women's History Month on the THINK HUMANITIES podcast, Bill Goodman talks to Terry Birdwhistell from the Nunn Center for Oral History and Donald Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the US Senate, about their new book "Washington's Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History." THINK HUMANITIES is made possible by generous support from the Spalding University Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing.

Episode 225 - Terry Birdwhistell and Donald Ritchie, Oral Historians

Don Ritchie

Mariam interviews oral historians Terry L. Birdwhistell and Donald A. Ritchie about their January 2022 book, Washington’s Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, an Oral History. They discuss Bess Clements Abell’s (1933-2020) Kentucky history, her background and family life, her time in the White House during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and her later public relations firm. More information can be found about the book here and is available for check out here.

Mariam interviews oral historians Terry L. Birdwhistell and Donald A. Ritchie about their January 2022 book, Washington’s Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, an Oral History. They discuss Bess Clements Abell’s (1933-2020) Kentucky history, her background and family life, her time in the White House during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and her later public relations firm. More information can be found about the book <a href="https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813182261/washingtons-iron-butterfly/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and is available for check out <a href="https://catalog.lexpublib.org/?section=resource&amp;resourceid=510979747&amp;currentIndex=0&amp;view=fullDetailsDetailsTab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

Washington’s Iron Butterfly, an Interview with Terry Birdwhistell and Don Ritchie (2022)

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 16, 2020) – In 1918, as the United States sent troops to the Western Front for the final months of World War I, an influenza pandemic raged across the globe, infecting nearly a quarter of the world’s population of around 500 million at that time. The death toll was immense, with estimates anywhere from 17-50 million, and some as high as 100 million lives lost. The University of Kentucky was not immune to this deadly pandemic and in response turned its gymnasium, now known as Buell Armory, into a makeshift hospital with help from the Red Cross. Terry L. Birdwhistell, senior oral historian in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at UK Libraries, has a personal connection to the 1918 flu pandemic, due to his own family being impacted. “Back then in Anderson County,” Birdwhistell says, “a farm family would have six, eight, 10 kids, to work the farm. I always thought it was odd that my father was an only child, coming out of that environment.” Birdwhistell says his mother told him in later years, “your grandmother had the flu that year, she was pregnant and she lost the baby, and she couldn’t have any more children. It put it all in perspective.” On this special edition of “Behind the Blue,” Kody Kiser and Carl Nathe of UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications talk with Birdwhistell about life at the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic, how the university and community responded, the unique roles our university presidents played both then and now, and more. "Behind the Blue" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK’s latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show’s blog page. You can watch a video version of this podcast here. To discover what’s wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 16, 2020) – In 1918, as the United States sent troops to the Western Front for the final months of World War I, an influenza pandemic raged across the globe, infecting nearly a quarter of the world’s population of around 500 million at that time. The death toll was immense, with estimates anywhere from 17-50 million, and some as high as 100 million lives lost. The University of Kentucky was not immune to this deadly pandemic and in response turned its gymnasium, now known as Buell Armory, into a makeshift hospital with help from the Red Cross. Terry L. Birdwhistell, senior oral historian in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at UK Libraries, has a personal connection to the 1918 flu pandemic, due to his own family being impacted. “Back then in Anderson County,” Birdwhistell says, “a farm family would have six, eight, 10 kids, to work the farm. I always thought it was odd that my father was an only child, coming out of that environment.” Birdwhistell says his mother told him in later years, “your grandmother had the flu that year, she was pregnant and she lost the baby, and she couldn’t have any more children. It put it all in perspective.” On this special edition of “Behind the Blue,” Kody Kiser and Carl Nathe of UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications talk with Birdwhistell about life at the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic, how the university and community responded, the unique roles our university presidents played both then and now, and more. "Behind the Blue" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK’s latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email <a href="mailto:BehindTheBlue@uky.edu">BehindTheBlue@uky.edu</a> or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show’s <a href="http://behindtheblue.libsyn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog page</a>. You can watch a video version of this podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbnEERnkN3U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. To discover what’s wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/igniting-passions-achieving-what-s-wildly-possible" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

April 16, 2020 - UK COVID-19 Special Edition (with Terry Birdwhistell)