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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Historian Marcy S. Sacks discusses her research examining the role of pets and other domesticated animals in helping U.S. Civil War soldiers both endure the…
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In this episode of the Bookworm, U-M Professor Gregory Dowd joined us to discuss his book "Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier" (Johns Hopkins University…
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Few retail sectors have been as thoroughly transformed by the revolution in online commerce as the retail bookstore. The retail storefront dedicated primarily to the sale of printed books (new or…
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In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not…
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Fort Michilimackinac, built by the French in 1715, acquired by the British in 1761 and demolished by them in 1781, has been the site of historical and archaeological research since 1959. In this…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, past Fellow Dr. Karen Marrero talks about her book “Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Dr. Crystal Webster discusses her book “Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North,” in conversation…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, historian Martin Brückner presents ideas from his book The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 in conversation with Mary Pedley, Assistant Curator…
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This episode of the Clements Bookworm features historian Sarah Blackwood in a conversation about her book The Portrait’s Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth Century United States…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, historian Megan Kate Nelson shares ideas from her book The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, scholar of literary history Christopher N. Phillips shares themes from his 2018 book The Hymnal: A Reading History. Books and resources discussed in the…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, historian Daniel Livesay shares the sources and ideas behind his book Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family,…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, historian Brian P. Luskey shares ideas from his book Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (2020), in a conversation with Dyke…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, art historian Shana Klein shares the themes of her book The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion (2020).…
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In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Martha H. Kennedy (Curator of popular and applied graphic art, Library of Congress) discusses her book Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and…
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This episode of the Clements Bookworm highlights writing and publishing projects that drew upon genealogical research. Panelists are Wendy Chapin Ford (“A Frontier Romance: Tiger Bill and…
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