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A biweekly discussion dedicated to American History, historical thinking, and the role of history in our every day lives. Hosted by historian John Fea
Episode 127: Phillis Wheatley: A Black Evangelical Poet in Revolutionary America
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.
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Episode 127: Phillis Wheatley: A Black Evangelical Poet in Revolutionary America
In this episode, we talk with David Waldstreicher, author of the George Washington Prize-winning The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence. We discuss early American poetry as the eighteenth-century equivalent of pop music and tweeting, the influence of evangelical Christianity on Wheatley's poetry, and the tension between slavery and the American Revolution in colonial Boston.
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The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.
A biweekly discussion dedicated to American History, historical thinking, and the role of history in our every day lives. Hosted by historian John Fea
