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American Studies July 23, 2018

Fabulous

The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

madison moore

Hosted by Michael Amico
Did you catch that look? The theory of fabulousness is on the move. In his new book, Fabulous: the Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Yale UP, 2018), madison moore explores …
American Studies May 31, 2018

The War Outside My Window

The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Janet E. Croon

Hosted by Michael Amico
Sit alongside a disabled teenage Southerner as he records his experience in The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Savas Beatie, 2018). This …
American Studies February 12, 2018

I Remain Yours

Common Lives in Civil War Letters

Christopher Hager

Hosted by Michael Amico
In I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters (Harvard University Press, 2018), Christopher Hager trains our attention to "the cell-level transfers that created the meaning of the Civl …
American Studies January 13, 2018

Revolution Song

A Story of American Freedom

Russell Shorto

Hosted by Michael Amico
Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom (Norton, 2017) is a history of many revolutions, kaleidoscopic turns through six individual lives. There is Cornplanter, a leader of the …
American Studies December 25, 2017

Belligerent Muse

Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War

Stephen Cushman

Hosted by Michael Amico
How do we use words to tease out the "real" that history strives to capture? Listen to my conversation with Stephen Cushman, as we consider the historian's art through Cushman's …
American Studies December 15, 2017

Midnight in America

Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War

Jonathan W. White

Hosted by Michael Amico
What were the dreams of the Civil War? Find out by listening to my conversation with Jonathan White about his new book Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during …
American Studies November 22, 2017

Archives of Desire

The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism

J. Samaine Lockwood

Hosted by Michael Amico
J. Samaine Lockwood, Associate Professor in the English Department at George Mason University, specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and gender and sexuality studies. In an hour-long conversation, we discuss her …
American Studies November 13, 2017

Sex and the Civil War

Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality

Judith Giesberg

Hosted by Michael Amico
Judith Giesberg, an expert on the history of women and gender during the Civil War, is professor and director of graduate studies in the history department at Villanova University and …
American Studies November 7, 2017

The Mayflower

The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

Rebecca Fraser

Hosted by Michael Amico
Rebecca Fraser is a writer, journalist, and broadcaster whose work has been published in Tatler, Vogue, The Times, and The Spectator. President of the Bronte Society for many years, she …
American Studies October 30, 2017

Curating America

Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past

Richard Rabinowitz

Hosted by Michael Amico
Richard Rabinowitz is one of the leading public historians in the United States. He has helped conceptualize, design, organize, and build over 500 history programs across the U.S. at such …