
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...
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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...

Welcome to a 2-part series on Robert Morris, who was a force for justice in nineteenth-century Boston. He championed school desegregation, d...

Welcome to a 2-part series on Robert Morris, who was a force for justice in nineteenth-century Boston. He championed school desegregation, d...

In this episode, podcast co-chairs Stefan Schöberlein and Jess Van Gilder talk with guests about the upcoming C19 Conference in Cincinnati (...

This episode features a conversation between Alex Alston, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, and Maurice O....

On this episode, Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University), guides us through one story of an age-old accusation levied against women throughout...

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...

This episode addresses the elephant slouching on its phone in the corner of many literature classrooms. Mary Isbell (University of New Haven...

In this episode, Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University) leads Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) through some of th...

In this episode, Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford) revisit Ridley Scott's big-budget 2023 biopic, Napol...

In this episode, Jean Pfaelzer (Prof. Emerita, University of Delaware) describes the untold history of slavery, slave revolts, and resistanc...

In this episode, Fiona Maxwell (University of Chicago) highlights the presence and power of youth voices in the collaborative print culture...

“The Time and Place of Performance” looks at the vast circuits of nineteenth-century performance. Amy Huang (Bates College) and Kellen Hoxwo...

Generally associated with postbellum regionalism, mutinous heroines feigning New England propriety, and consumable literature for the urban...

Since May 2021, G19: The Graduate Student Collective of C19 has produced and published The New Book Forum, an online interview series that f...

In this episode, Kassie Jo Baron (University of Tennessee at Martin) and Karah M. Mitchell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) inv...

In this episode, Paul Fess (LaGuardia Community College) explores the connections between Martin Delany and the songwriters Joshua McCarter...

In this episode, we look forward to the upcoming C19 Conference, to be held March 14-16 in Pasadena, California. Jessica Van Gilder (Univers...

In this episode, Eagan Dean (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) makes the case that trans studies is an important new area for nineteenth ce...

How does an enslaved woman's song from 1830s in Georgia end up on a 1950s radio program in South Africa and in a modern singing class? This...

Over the last few years, academia has seen a wave of labor action, especially by graduate workers. In this episode, Max Chapnick (Boston Uni...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, newspaper readers across the U.S. were familiar with the work of California writer Yda H. Addis...

In this episode, Susannah Sharpless (Cornell University) and Charline Jao (Cornell University) propose gossip as a scholarly approach and in...
Certain texts and writers have been allotted attention and resources in the study of American literature, while others remain understudied a...
The N-word is here to stay, and so are debates about it. However, scholars and teachers don’t need the word to disappear so much as they nee...
Every week, back in 2018, Ivy Schweitzer and her team of students at Dartmouth College selected several poems and letters written by Emily D...
In anticipation of the launch of Season Six – in just a few weeks! – we are sharing favorites from our expanding archive. With this episode...

Everybody knows Walt Whitman (1819-1892) as the poet of Leaves of Grass (1855), but only a few think of him as a newspaperman. Still, Whitma...
It is likely that you walk past a road or building sign every day without the slightest thought about how the names listed on these spaces h...
This past February, the C19 Ad Hoc Committee on Events brought together eleven scholars to discuss the contributions their first books make...

In 1842, nine years before the first adoption law was passed in the United States, two sisters from Boston, Anstrice and Eunice C. Fellows,...

“Reconstructions” is the theme and inspiration for the upcoming, in-person C19 conference, to be held in Florida’s Coral Gables/Miami region...
This episode highlights the ways that librarians and faculty can partner in designing assignments that draw on archival records to emphasize...
The coronavirus pandemic in 2020 resulted in not only a devastating loss of life, but a loss of jobs too. As the virus swept the United Stat...
Have we really witnessed, in the words of a 2016 J19 forum, “the end of the end of the canon?” This episode builds on the #VirtualC19 roundt...
In this episode, Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College) and Stacey Margolis (University of Utah) discuss their experiences as co-editors of...
A nineteenth-century tunnel book inspires us to adopt different perspectives on settler colonial regimes and power structures. This second p...
This episode tracks the literary history of pirates in the long nineteenth-century United States and examines how literary pirates helped si...
This episode considers Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies and artistic practice across the borders of nation states, and across oceans....
This episode explores how letters or "cartas" expounded universalist notions of political self-determination by cultivating intimate states...
This episode uses a monument to unravel the story of John W. Jones, a self-emancipated Black activist, civic leader, and entrepreneur living...
This episode focuses broadly on digital humanities research and pedagogy in the field of nineteenth-century American Studies, with special c...
Did nineteenth-century abolitionists actually succeed in their aims or did they fail in ways that continue to animate American society? Migh...
Mark Twain is an author strongly associated with place, whether it be Hannibal, Missouri, the sleepy hamlet of his childhood; Hartford, Conn...
This episode explores the extraordinary efforts that Elizabeth Melville undertook, after her husband Herman's death, to republish his books...
“Dissent” is the theme and keyword inspiring the Sixth Biennial C19 Conference to be held in Florida’s Coral Gables/Miami region, April 2-5,...
During the rapid rise of psychiatric institutions in the nineteenth century a doctor’s testimony and the signature of a husband, friend, or...
This podcast explores the Spanish-language dedication poems of nineteenth-century Latinas who exchanged verses in and across the borders of...
The N-word is here to stay, and so are debates about it. However, scholars and teachers don’t need the word to disappear so much as they nee...
How does looking back to a time before institutionalization and medicalization affect how we think about disability today? What would it mea...
In February 2018, Mark H., then a Columbia MFA Directing Candidate, presented his production of William Wells Brown’s 1858 play, The Escape;...