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 67 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists hosts C19: America in the 19th Century, a society show with 67 episodes published.

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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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  S10 E03 | Part 2: The Hour and the Man: Robert & Catharine Morris's Gifts to Boston College

  Apr 14, 202630 minS0

  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 women, and advocated for Irish immigrants. Morris, his wife Catherine, and their son Robert Jr. were also early major donors and multifaceted supporters of Boston College in its earliest most fledgling years. Christy Pottroff and Justin Brown-Ramsey explore the story of the Morris family who transformed their institution, Boston’s abolitionist movement, and the struggle for civil rights more broadly. The cohosts share a portrait of the Morris family and their hi...

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