C19: America in the 19th Century

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 podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

C19: America in the 19th Century is a society podcast hosted by Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, with 69 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists hosts C19: America in the 19th Century, a society show with 69 episodes published.

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  S10E07 | BIGOTRY EXPOSED: The Tolerance of American Freethinkers

  Sep 15, 202642 min

  Andrew Thibaudeau (College of Coastal Georgia) discusses the pseudoscience of mesmerism using a fascinating archival discovery in the form of a letter, self-published in 1847 and titled, “BIGOTRY EXPOSED.” This letter details a half-decade-long discussion between a member of the public, Luther Stebbins, and the editor of the Boston Investigator, Horace Seaver, in which Stebbins claims to expose the “superstition, bigotry, and fanaticism” of the Seaver, who ostensibly supports the claims of mesmerism. Thibaudeau follows the discussion between Stebbins and Seaver through their published, and often humorous, correspondence in the Boston Investigator not only to examine the veracity of Stebbins’ claims in his self-published letter but also to present Stebbins’ letter as a model for resistance to the infection of pseudoscience in popular culture. This episode was produced by Kassie Jo Baron. Link to Transcript: https://bit.ly/4yB3HQz.

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  S10E06 | Protectionism and Exceptionalism: What We Can Learn From Nineteenth-Century Art Tariffs

  Aug 15, 202642 min

  This episode uses current debates over art protectionism to connect us back to the late-nineteenth-century debates over tariffs on foreign art. Miranda Knofczynski focuses on how the surprising claims of two artists involved in this debate reverse the usual expectations and alignments. Boston-born, but Italian-trained expatriate sculptor William Wetmore Story argued that he was an American artist by birth and character, and that his sculptures should be free from the tariff. Italian-born and trained sculptor Pompeo Luigi Coppini, who immigrated to Texas, was protected by the tariff on Story’s “Italian” art. The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10E06-Transcript.

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  S10ESUM | "Whitman on the Case," Episode 1 (Summer Feature)

  Jul 15, 202631 min

  For summer break, the C19 Podcast is hosting its first guest feature episode! It is part one of a two-part miniseries called “Whitman on the Case,” in which a team of student researchers investigates Walt Whitman’s coverage of one of the most notorious murders of the nineteenth century: the slaying of Harvey Burdell in 1857. The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10ESUM-Transcript. You can subscribe to the “Whitman on the Case” podcast to listen to the second episode on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KYNeUNIfQJIzAxrzf9mkW), YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=1y534Jcdr3U), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/whitman-on-the-case/id1776708857), and many other streaming platforms. "Whitman on the Case” was written by Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein, and Sequoya Johnston, all affiliated with Texas A&M University—Central Texas, located in the beautiful Texas hill country.

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  S10E05 | "It’s a Outrage!": Touring Theater, Settler-Colonialism, and American Mythmaking

  Jun 15, 202643 min

  This episode investigates two incidents from America’s dramatic past: the 1831 touring performance of the melodrama Metamora starring Edwin Forrest and the 2021-2022 national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! By putting the historical context of their creation and the various receptions to their performance in conversation, Lauren Bellatti and I. B. Hopkins explore the ways these plays respond to attempts at American self-fashioning, particularly at moments when “Americanness” was contested. These plays, they argue, give audiences a chance to understand the messiness of American identity formation, even, or maybe especially, when that kind of reflection is uncomfortable. The episode was produced by Kassie Jo Baron. Transcript available at https://bit.ly/S10E05-Transcript

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  S10 E04 | Live from the Conference: C19 and the Public

  May 15, 20261h 8mS0

  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 live recorded conversation at C19’s 2026 conference in Cincinnati, OH with four experts whose work actively engages various publics: Nan Wolverton, Vice President for Academic and Public Programs at the American Antiquarian Society; Sarah Mesle, Teaching Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California; Ashley Glassburn, President’s Indigenous Peoples Scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor; and Christy Pottroff, Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. For this...

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