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, Prof. Michael Schoeppner discusses his forthcoming book, Living Illegally, which traces the origins of criminalized immigration in the United States back well before the Chinese Exclusion Acts of the 1880s. He explores how state-level laws beginning in the 1780s criminalized the movement of free Black people, many of them born in the United States, who could become illegal immigrants by simply crossing into another state. At the MHS, he has been working with the papers of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, Amos Lawrence, and Robert C. Winthrop, where he uncovered a previously unknown 1843 letter from Charles Sumner.
Prof. Schoeppner is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon 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-45-Schoeppner
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