HeyJaredC19: America in the 19th Century
The C19 Podcast is a production by scholars from across the world exploring the past, present, and future through an examination of the United States in the long nineteenth century.The official podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
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S10E07 | BIGOTRY EXPOSED: The Tolerance of American Freethinkers (opens the original)
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Andrew Thibaudeau (College of Coastal Georgia) discusses the pseudoscience of mesmerism using a fascinating archival discovery in the form of a letter, self-published in 1847 and titled, “BIGOTRY EXPOSED.” This letter details a half-decade-long discussion between a member of the public, Luther Stebbins, and the editor of the Boston Investigator, Horace Seaver, in which Stebbins claims to expose the “superstition, bigotry, and fanaticism” of the Seaver, who ostensibly supports the claims of mesme
S10E06 | Protectionism and Exceptionalism: What We Can Learn From Nineteenth-Century Art Tariffs (opens the original)
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This episode uses current debates over art protectionism to connect us back to the late-nineteenth-century debates over tariffs on foreign art. Miranda Knofczynski focuses on how the surprising claims of two artists involved in this debate reverse the usual expectations and alignments. Boston-born, but Italian-trained expatriate sculptor William Wetmore Story argued that he was an American artist by birth and character, and that his sculptures should be free from the tariff. Italian-born and tra
S10ESUM | "Whitman on the Case," Episode 1 (Summer Feature) (opens the original)
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For summer break, the C19 Podcast is hosting its first guest feature episode! It is part one of a two-part miniseries called “Whitman on the Case,” in which a team of student researchers investigates Walt Whitman’s coverage of one of the most notorious murders of the nineteenth century: the slaying of Harvey Burdell in 1857. The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10ESUM-Transcript. You can subscribe to the “Whitman on the Case” podcast to listen to the se
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