This episode of the Making History podcast is the second half of Adam Arenson’s talk at the Past Tense seminar, “This is Not How My Book Starts: Looking Back at Writing and Framing.” Adam is the author of The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.
Click here for the full schedule of the 2011-2012 Past Tense seminar series
Martha Bradstreet and the “Epithet of ‘Woman’”: A Story of Land, Libel, Litigation, and Justifying “Unwomanly” Behavior in the Early Republic
A Writing History Workshop with Michael Blaakman
Thursday, January 26
12:30pm
HGS 302
In 1824, Martha Bradstreet, a woman of distinguished pedigree but limited means, filed thirty-five suits in federal court to reclaim a lost inheritance: a vast tract of land in and around Utica, New York. This microhistory reconstructs Bradstreet’s struggle, including her dramatic divorce, her embroilment in malice suits, her campaign to prove title against a phalanx of alleged squatters, and her crusade to impeach a federal judge. Along the way, the paper analyzes the strategic ways that Bradstreet justified her “unwomanly” actions, in an effort to better understand how women resolved the dissonances between lived reality and prescriptive gender ideology in nineteenth-century America.
Come join us for a discussion of Michael’s paper, and of the issues related to characterization, the balance of narrative and argument, and the uses and shortcomings of microhistory. We hope to see you Thursday!
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This episode of the Making History podcast is the first half of Adam Arenson’s talk at the Past Tense seminar, “This is Not How My Book Starts: Looking Back at Writing and Framing.” Adam is the author of The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.
Click here for the full schedule of the 2011-2012 Past Tense seminar series
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The latest podcast is now out! This episode features journalist-historian Miriam Pawel
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The 2011-2012 schedule for the Past Tense seminar is in the works; we have dates, listed below, and we are discussing logistics with our speakers.
Our new time is Fridays at noon, so we can have lunch and discuss our writing while the sun still shines. All events will be held at the Huntington Library, on: October 28; November 18; December 9; January 20; February 17; March 23; April 27; and May 18. The dates are also on this Google Calendar.
Details will follow soon — here, and on the websites of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West.
In the meantime, access to podcasts from two of last semester’s speakers — David Blight and Marni Sandweiss — can be found here on iTunes.
Enjoy, and see you soon!
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