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New Media in American Literary History
Below are the live feed videos for the “New Media in American Literary History” conference at Northeastern University on December 5-6, 2013. “New Media in American Literary History” brought together “digital” and “analog” scholars interested in the history of American print media to discuss common questions, challenges, and identify potential collaborations during December 2013 at… MORE
Freedom On My Mind
For university and high school instructors eager to give students a clear understanding of the powerful historical moments that took place during Freedom Summer, US History Scene enthusiastically recommends the Academy Award-nominated documentary film Freedom on My Mind (1994) directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford and written by Michael Chandler. Freedom Summer was… MORE
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich from Harvard University discusses her famous phrase “Well Behaved Women Seldom Made History” and the challenges of writing about women in early United States History. In 1990, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812,… MORE
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed on Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
Pulitzer Prize winning lawyer and historian Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University discusses her new book the Hemingeses of Monticello: An American Family, which chronicles the lives of Thomas Jefferson and the often neglected Hemings Family, owned by Jefferson on his Virginia plantation, including his concubine Sally. In December 1789, Paris was engulfed in the burgeoning… MORE
