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

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

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.

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

Excited to dig into this!

Mary Isbell's book Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts is free and available for digital download now! unewhaven.pressbooks.pub/searchingfor...

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...

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

"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)

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.

"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."

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 available on YouTube: period cooking recreation!

"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.”

"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)

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!

Look at this all-star cast

Our forum on P.T. Barnum's American Museum is finally out in J19! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Really proud of this article out now in J19 on Pauline Hopkins, science, history, race, and morality. There is one glaring factual error that I apologize to the people of Sudan for.

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Twain Studies has been at the forefront of digital scholarship since the 1990s. Among those most responsible was Stephen Railton, who passed away last week.

He created the first internet repository of Twainia.

Condolences especially to his son & fellow public scholar, @americanstudier.bsky.social.

Still accepting proposals for Season 10! What are you working on?