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 l

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 w

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 Br

Podcast Episode · C19: America in the 19th Century · 08/14/2025 · 37m

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,

This episode explores the extraordinary efforts that Elizabeth Melville undertook, after her husband Herman's death, to republish his books and to preserve his records. Examining the way that Elizabet

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 so

Call for Applications | C19 Podcast Subcommittee 2026-2028 The C19 Podcast Subcommittee seeks to bring on new members for the 2026-2028 term! We welcome applications from scholars of all ranks who ...

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 reading

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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 avai

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 avai

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 avai

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Across the nation’s history, American writers have produced a compelling and diverse body of literary expression, which joins the great literatures of other...

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of events that ...

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 te

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical even...

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Podcast Episode · C19: America in the 19th Century · 12/17/2019 · 46m

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 podc