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“Here’s Where It Gets Interesting” — Tiya talks with podcast host Sharon McMahon about Harriet Tubman. “In a world where hope often feels out of reach, Miles reveals why Tubman’s story continues to inspire and resonate with us today.” Aired November 25, 2024 on the podcast Here’s Where It Gets Interesting.

“Ghosts of the Deep South” — “The Deep South is a haunted landscape where dark tourism thrives, supplying spine-tingling thrills to eager visitors. But is there a darker truth behind these tales? Maddy and Anthony’s guest today is Tiya Miles, author of Tales from the Haunted South. Tiya reveals how ghost tours exploit and distort the true history of slavery for profit, feeding troubling narratives.” Aired November 20, 2024 on the podcast After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal.

“‘Tales from the Haunted South’ author casts light on ghost tour industry” — Tiya talks with co-host Jeff Tiberii, host of WUNC’s “Due South,” about the ghost tour industry in the South and explores the ways many have peddled in racist and misogynistic tropes while others have revealed important and often untold Southern history when approached with nuance and care.

“Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation” — Living on Earth takes a look at the history of women outdoors in America. In Tiya’s book Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, Tiya writes about the time spent in the outdoors and how it prepared abolitionist Harriet Tubman and novelist Louisa May Alcott, some of the country’s most important women trailblazers, to become pioneers in their fields. Tiya joins host Paloma Beltran for more.

“We Owe It to Harriet Tubman to Talk About Her Disability” — Tiya joins Kendall Ciesemier on the podcast At Liberty, produced by the ACLU, to talk about her new book Night Flyer, connect past and present, and offer lessons from Harriet’s life that can help us build a future of collective liberation. Aired on July 18, 2024.

“White Voters and Joe Biden; Harriet Tubman and History” — On this episode of The Nation’s Start Making Sense, Steve Phillips critiques Democratic campaign strategy, and Tiya Miles talks about her new book, Night Flyer. Aired June 26, 2024.

“Harriet Tubman and Her World” — On Juneteenth, Tiya spoke with Brian on The Brian Lehrer Show about her new book, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, that places Harriet Tubman in the context of the natural world she inhabited and her spirituality. Aired on June 19, 2024. The Brian Lehrer Show.

Listen to an interview with Tiya on Living on Earth’s This Week’s Show. To kick off Women’s History Month, we take a look at the history of women outdoors in America. From abolitionist Harriet Tubman to novelist Louisa May Alcott, some of the country’s most important women trailblazers shared a connection with the natural world in their girlhood. According to author Tiya Miles in her book Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, this time spent in the outdoors prepared these women to become pioneers in their fields. She joins Host Paloma Beltran for more (interview begins at 16:02). Read the transcript of Tiya’s interview.

“Beyond The Ghosts of the South w/ Professor Tiya Miles” — In this podcast episode of Crawlspace – True Crime & Mysteries, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna travel to the Haunted South with Tiya to explore the impact dark tourism in the South had on Tiya and how it led her to shine a light on the realities of these tales.

“OBP’s Summer Book Club” — Farai Chideya talks with Tiya about her book All That She Carried and “one family heirloom from the enslavement period that remarkably stood the test of time.” Aired on July 28, 2023. Tiya’s interview begins at 20:18.