Historians & Their Histories
Historians & Their Histories
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Historians & Their Histories is a podcast by the Massachusetts Historical Society. In this series, we are introducing you to the historians who write the histories. In each episode, we sit down with a scholar who has received fellowship support from the Massachusetts Historical Society. We learn about their origin stories and ask them about why they became students of the past. And we get a sneak peek at their current projects, too.
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The podcast covers a range of historical themes, including social issues, environmental studies, and religious history. Specific episodes feature discussions on topics such as poverty and class in Early America, the interplay of slavery and religion in the nineteenth century, and the environmental impacts of the American Revolution, showcasing scholars' diverse research endeavors and personal journeys into history.
Historians & Their Histories is a podcast by the Massachusetts Historical Society. In this series, we are introducing you to the historians who write the histories. In each episode, we sit down with a scholar who has received fellowship support from the Massachusetts Historical Society. We learn about their origin stories and ask them about why they became students of the past. And we get a sneak peek at their current projects, too.
In this episode of Historians & Their Histories, we speak with Rachel Wiedman. She discusses her dissertation research on gender and political culture in the Civil War era North, tracing a shift in how Northerners evaluated political leadership from an ideal of restrained manhood that valued moderation and compromise to one of martial manhood that prized principle, moral courage, and confrontation. At the MHS, Rachel has been working with letters written by constituents to figures such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, revealing how ordinary Northerners used the language of manhood to praise and condemn their political representatives.
Rachel Wiedman is a recipient of the Marc Friedlaender Fellowship from the MHS.
To learn more about MHS fellowships and how to apply, please visit this page.
Learn more about this episode here: https://www.masshist.org/podcast/hath-episode-36-Wiedman
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