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 Lydia Burleson. She discusses her research into the Massachusetts state seal, tracing how its Indigenous imagery has persisted and shifted since the colony’s 1629 charter. Drawing upon variety of archival records, Lydia focuses on the seal’s brief disappearance during the Revolutionary period, when it was replaced from 1775 to 1780 by an “English American” design bearing a sword, before an Indigenous design returned as the war continued. She also explores what that change, and its reversal, reveals about how colonists used Indigenous imagery to construct an American identity, even as Native nations were largely excluded from the decision-making.
Lydia Burleson is a recipient of the Samuel Victor Constant Fellowship from the Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts, administered by 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-40-Burleson
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