We went LIVE for the 1st time in Cincinnati at C19 for this episode - "C19 in the Public" - to discuss the potential possibilities and challenges of bringing together C19 studies and public humanities. Listen to hear more from experts engaged with various publics! on.soundcloud.com/qWrG2JDfSQos...

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 l

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New 2-part episode just dropped! Join Christy Pottroff & Justin Brown-Ramsey to explore Robert Morris's civic advocacy + hear about the archival adventures to recover his family's contributions to Boston College. Get started with Part 1 today! @brown-ramsey.bsky.social soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

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 w

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Happy New Year! As of today, Stefan Schöberlein (Texas A&M–Central Texas) and Jessica Van Gilder (Georgia Tech) are the new co-chairs of the C19 Podcast!

Finally had a chance to listen to this while doing some pre-holiday food prep. It's delightful! Check out this great episode of @c19podcast.bsky.social by @ainenorris.bsky.social about one of the "Queens of Ghost-Land," a purported milk-bewitching woman named Sally (Sallie) Friddly.

C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.

New episode out today featuring Alex Alston (Bryn Mawr College) and Maurice O. Wallace (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)!

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 Br

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It's called marketing

Rachel Banner@ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social doing her part to force C19 on everybody at ASA

I tried a couple new things this term. It has been my best term since 2019. Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social

S09 E02 | How Do We Teach Literature When Students Won’t Read What We Assign?

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

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Big thanks to the amazing folks at @c19podcast.bsky.social for letting me babble about Appalachian witchcraft and math. 🖤🖤🖤 It’s an honor to do this work.

C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.

The old enchanted milk pail trick. Nice.

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New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.

New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.

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,

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Our next episode contains a witch! Or does it?

If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!

S03E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women’s Work

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

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Rachel Banner@ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

The humanities are so hot right now

This is my university! Seeking 18th century-ists!

Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The 2026 SEASECS conference is going to be at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama! Accepting proposals through October 1! www.seasecs.org/2026-confere...

New episode! Join Rachel Trusty (Bucknell University) as she discusses James Chesser and Georgianna Holly's queer marriage in 19th-century Arkansas! soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

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 so

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We need new producers to serve on the C19 Podcast Subcommittee for the 2026-2028 term! Send us your applications by 9/29!

2026-2028 Call for Applications: C19 Podcast Subcommittee

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 ...

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FWIW, in this course I am trying a version of Mary Isbell’s student-selected reading curriculum. Too early to say that is why attendance & participation are so strong, but it’s certainly my working thesis.

C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode! As you compile your syllabus, learn how Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) structures her classroom when students don't read assigned readings. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

Perfect mid-August listening. You gotta check it out.

C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode! As you compile your syllabus, learn how Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) structures her classroom when students don't read assigned readings. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

Excited to dig into this!

C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode! As you compile your syllabus, learn how Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) structures her classroom when students don't read assigned readings. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

New episode! As you compile your syllabus, learn how Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) structures her classroom when students don't read assigned readings. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

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 reading

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Our next episode is by Mary Isbell, author of Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts! Stay tuned! unewhaven.pressbooks.pub/searchingfor...

Searching for Wonder – Simple Book Publishing

Many journeys, one course.

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"I started watching this during the pandemic, as, oh, I can't go outside my house, but I can watch this guy make me an 18th century boiled apple inside of a bit of a dough and call it a pudding. And you know what, that's something." –Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University)

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 avai

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I got a lot of thoughts.... right now I'm at the overview of the earliest content period of the channel. I watched back then. I forgot about those episodes in that 2014-16ish period. I stopped watching when it moved away from that presentation style getting away from going to sites and experts.

Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · last yr.

"Never forget that no peer-reviewed journal article you ever write will reach as many people as an ASMR video about making an 1807 version of macaroni and cheese."

"Never forget that no peer-reviewed journal article you ever write will reach as many people as an ASMR video about making an 1807 version of macaroni and cheese."

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 avai

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"Never forget that no peer-reviewed journal article you ever write will reach as many people as an ASMR video about making an 1807 version of macaroni and cheese."

Gonna have to drop everything to write about how the company running these Prompt Engineering Certificates (with laundered brand equity) was created by a Venture Capital firm. Not “funded” or “bankrolled.” The VCs imagined it, invented it, built it, then installed their hand-picked “founder.”

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Andrea. I mean, I knew it had to exist somewhere, and I’m still gobsmacked.

Our next season is about to begin! First episode is on popular depictions of Early America on YouTube

If you're more of an audiobook / podcast cat, A Literary History of the United States is also available on Audible. You can learn about the literature of the road on the road!

A Literary Tour of the United States

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...

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Look at this all-star cast