S10E07 | BIGOTRY EXPOSED: The Tolerance of American Freethinkers
Andrew Thibaudeau (College of Coastal Georgia) discusses the pseudoscience of mesmerism using a fascinating archival discovery in the form o...
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C19: 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 offi...
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S10E06 | Protectionism and Exceptionalism: What We Can Learn From Nineteenth-Century Art Tariffs
This episode uses current debates over art protectionism to connect us back to the late-nineteenth-century debates over tariffs on foreign a...
S10ESUM | "Whitman on the Case," Episode 1 (Summer Feature)
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...
S10E05 | "It’s a Outrage!": Touring Theater, Settler-Colonialism, and American Mythmaking
This episode investigates two incidents from America’s dramatic past: the 1831 touring performance of the melodrama Metamora starring Edwin...
S10 E04 | Live from the Conference: C19 and the Public
For this episode, Sarah Buchmeier (Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago) and Karah Mitchell (Visiting Assistant Profes...
S10 E03 | Part 2: The Hour and the Man: Robert & Catharine Morris's Gifts to Boston College
Welcome to a 2-part series on Robert Morris, who was a force for justice in nineteenth-century Boston. He championed school desegregation, d...
S10 E02 | Part 1: The Hour and the Man: Robert Morris's Legal Legacy
Welcome to a 2-part series on Robert Morris, who was a force for justice in nineteenth-century Boston. He championed school desegregation, d...
S10E01 | Welcome to Cincinnati!
In this episode, podcast co-chairs Stefan Schöberlein and Jess Van Gilder talk with guests about the upcoming C19 Conference in Cincinnati (...
S09 E05 | Animals in 19th-Century African American Literature
This episode features a conversation between Alex Alston, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, and Maurice O....
S09 E04 | Sally Fridley’s Bewildering Press: Investigating Accusations of Appalachian Witchcraft
On this episode, Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University), guides us through one story of an age-old accusation levied against women throughout...
S09 E03 | Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas
In 1888, James Chesser and Georgianna Holly married in the growing city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. A few months later during James's arrest, c...
S09 E02 | How Do We Teach Literature When Students Won’t Read What We Assign?
This episode addresses the elephant slouching on its phone in the corner of many literature classrooms. Mary Isbell (University of New Haven...
S09 E01 | Just Add Nutmeg: YouTube, Nostalgia, and the Fantasy of Early America
In this episode, Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University) leads Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) through some of th...
S08 E05 | Napoleon and the Caribbean
In this episode, Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford) revisit Ridley Scott's big-budget 2023 biopic, Napol...
S08 E04 | California, a Slave State: Birth of a State
In this episode, Jean Pfaelzer (Prof. Emerita, University of Delaware) describes the untold history of slavery, slave revolts, and resistanc...
S08 E03 | Club Newspapers and Civic Collaboration at Chicago Settlement Houses
In this episode, Fiona Maxwell (University of Chicago) highlights the presence and power of youth voices in the collaborative print culture...
S08 E02 | The Time and Place of Performance
“The Time and Place of Performance” looks at the vast circuits of nineteenth-century performance. Amy Huang (Bates College) and Kellen Hoxwo...
S08 E01 | Undomesticated: Nonhuman Animals and Queer Resistance in Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Generally associated with postbellum regionalism, mutinous heroines feigning New England propriety, and consumable literature for the urban...
S07 E05 | The G19 New Book Forum on The Matter of Black Living by Autumn Womack
Since May 2021, G19: The Graduate Student Collective of C19 has produced and published The New Book Forum, an online interview series that f...
S07E04 | Sagacious Canine Companions: Nineteenth-Century Newfies in Fact and Fiction
In this episode, Kassie Jo Baron (University of Tennessee at Martin) and Karah M. Mitchell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) inv...