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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 Professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia) moderated a…
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, defended fugitives from slavery, supported equal rights for…
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, defended fugitives from slavery, supported equal rights for…
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 (2026). The episode features historical spotlights, tips for…
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. Wallace, Professor of English at Rutgers University, New…
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 colonial and early American history: witchcraft. In 1891,…
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, courts argued that Georgianna was legally a man. Legal and…
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) describes her search for a solution to the student…
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 the most popular late 18th and early 19th-century content…
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, Napoleon, out of Apple Studios. The film’s writers promised to…
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 resistance in California, based on her award-winning book…
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 of Progressive Era Club Newspapers. Through a close look at…
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 Hoxworth (University at Buffalo, SUNY) consider how…
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 elites, recent re-readings of Mary Eleanor Wilkins…
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 facilitates conversations between graduate students and the…
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) investigate the popularity and representation of “sagacious”…
S07E03 | Reclaimed Melodies: Martin R. Delany, Joshua McCarter Simpson, and Stephen Foster
In this episode, Paul Fess (LaGuardia Community College) explores the connections between Martin Delany and the songwriters Joshua McCarter Simpson and Stephen Foster. Embedded in the mix of Delany’s…
S07E02 | The End: Looking Forward to the Eighth Biennial C19 Conference
In this episode, we look forward to the upcoming C19 Conference, to be held March 14-16 in Pasadena, California. Jessica Van Gilder (University of Kentucky) interviews Chair of the C19 Program…
S07E01 | Studying Transness in the Nineteenth Century
In this episode, Eagan Dean (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) makes the case that trans studies is an important new area for nineteenth century cultural history and that the stakes of this…
"Best of" the C19 Podcast | Tena, Too, Sings America
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 is the surprising story of an African-born woman named…
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