The Clio Dialogues is a history podcast dedicated to exploring how the past continues to shape the world we live in today.
Through engaging conversations with historians and other experts, the podcast brings new scholarship, fresh interpretations, and overlooked stories to a broad public audience. From politics and economics to technology, society, popular culture, and more, The Clio Dialogues makes rigorous scholarship accessible and provides the historical context necessary to better understand the present.
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Curiosity. Conversation. Context. Humanity.
The Clio Dialogues.
About Clio
Clio is the Greek muse of history who heralds humanity's deeds. In ancient times, she used a salpinx (a long trumpet) to do so, but today she uses a podcast microphone.
The daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (goddess of memory), Clio represents the enduring threads that connect individual lives to larger human stories. She embodies the idea that history is more than a collection of facts. It is a living conversation that connects the past and present, helping us understand how we arrived here and where we might go next.
About the Host
Dr. Jennifer Robin Terry is the creator, producer, and host of The Clio Dialogues.
Jennifer is also a first-generation college graduate and a historian who holds a PhD in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught college history courses for nearly two decades, helping students connect historical scholarship to the questions of everyday life. Her research interests include the history of childhood, civilian wartime internment, memory, popular culture, and the ways ordinary people have navigated extraordinary historical circumstances. Jennifer's award-winning historical scholarship has appeared in academic journals and edited collections. Select publications can be viewed here.
In addition to her research, teaching, and podcast work, Jennifer has long been active with the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) where she served as President from 2023 to 2025.
When she is not researching, recording, or reading far too many books at once, Jennifer enjoys trail running, heritage tourism, and watching classic films. A sucker for a good backstory, she is especially drawn to places, stories, and archives that reveal how the past continues to shape the present in visible and unexpected ways.