History and Mental Health with Dr. Miller Boyd, III
This episode explores the impact of history on your mental health and features a real life historian. The featured guest is Dr. Miller Boyd, III, and he an educator and consultant, on top of being a historian. Every day we are creating history and having knowledge and awareness of history allows us to learn from the past to create a better future. In addition, history can also impact your mental health. Even if you were never one to enjoy history class, this episode has something for you. Stay tuned until the last moment to get all of these pearls of wisdom.
Questions this episode answers:
-What are the historical events that everyone needs to know?
-How do preconceived notions of others impact relationships and behavior?
-Can history inspire hope?
-Is there more to black history than slavery?
-How is COVID impacting history and our lives?
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About Dr. Miller Boyd, III:
Historian, Dr. Miller Williams Boyd, III was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Currently, he serves as the 9th-grade Social Studies teacher at Whitfield School. From 2019-2021, Boyd held the school’s Robert B. Lobusch Endowed Chair in Humanities. Before coming to Whitfield, Dr. Boyd was a faculty instructor in the Departments of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi.
Boyd completed his undergraduate degree in Sociology at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans in 1998. In 2006, he received a Masters in African American Studies from Boston University. Studying under pioneering Atlantic World historian John Thornton, his work focused on free people of color in Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pulling from research conducted during his Masters program, Boyd authored an award-winning article entitled, “Privilege Lost: Shifting Creole Identity in Antebellum Louisiana,” which was published in the Fall 2007 edition of The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies. In 2008, he began his doctoral studies in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi, specializing in Early American and African American History. As a fellow of the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi, Boyd worked under noted Civil War historian, John R. Neff, and researched the African American experience in Civil War Missouri. As a result of his research, he has received several research fellowships and has been invited to speak at various institutions, including the University of Missouri, Kansas State University, Delta State University, the Missouri History Museum, and Soldier’s Memorial in St. Louis. In May 2016, Boyd successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “The Exigencies of War: Black Military Service, Free Labor, and Education in Civil War Missouri.”
Since returning to St. Louis full-time, Boyd has continued to write and lecture on the African American experience in Missouri. Starting in 2019, Boyd entered the field of consulting, conducting workshops for educators on how to teach African American history in the 21st century.
