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Black Girls and Their Needlework in Early America
11th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture https://youtube.com/live/xnwa6HdHAUM?feature=share Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes joins us to discuss the lives and experiences of Black girls during the late 1700s and early 1800s in the northeastern United States by examining the needlework they created. By using material culture as primary evidence, the needlework provides valuable clues about the lives of […]
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Conversation with David Waldstreicher
Featured“A radical new vision of the life and work of colonial America’s brilliant Black female poet” says the New York Times of David Waldstreicher’s new biography of Phillis Wheatley. Marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of Wheatley’s collection of poetry, Professor Waldstreicher offers a fresh and full account of the poet’s life and works, […]
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The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Conversation with John Sweet
Featuredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwoiAtFjCw Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History, John Sweet joins us to discuss his new book The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America. On a moonless night in the summer of 1793, a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel, and […]
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A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow0uuCVv10 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian Katherine Howe joins us to discuss her new novel A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. Set in Boston during the Golden Age of Piracy, A True Account takes us on one young woman’s adventure as one of the most terrifying […]