The C19 Podcast is a production by scholars from across the world exploring the past, present, and future through an examination of the United States in the long nineteenth century.
The official podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
S10E07 | BIGOTRY EXPOSED: The Tolerance of American Freethinkers
Andrew Thibaudeau (College of Coastal Georgia) discusses the pseudoscience of mesmerism using a fascinating archival discovery in the form of a letter, self-published in 1847 and titled, “BIGOTRY EXPOSED.” This letter details a half-decade-long discussion between a member of the public, Luther Stebbins, and the editor of the Boston Investigator, Horace Seaver, in which Stebbins claims to expose the “superstition, bigotry, and fanaticism” of the Seaver, who ostensibly supports the claims of mesmerism. Thibaudeau follows the discussion between Stebbins and Seaver through their published, and often humorous, correspondence in the Boston Investigator not only to examine the veracity of Stebbins’ claims in his self-published letter but also to present Stebbins’ letter as a model for resistance to the infection of pseudoscience in popular culture. This episode was produced by Kassie Jo Baron. Link to Transcript: https://bit.ly/4yB3HQz.
15 Aug 2026
S10E06 | Protectionism and Exceptionalism: What We Can Learn From Nineteenth-Century Art Tariffs
This episode uses current debates over art protectionism to connect us back to the late-nineteenth-century debates over tariffs on foreign art. Miranda Knofczynski focuses on how the surprising claims of two artists involved in this debate reverse the usual expectations and alignments. Boston-born, but Italian-trained expatriate sculptor William Wetmore Story argued that he was an American artist by birth and character, and that his sculptures should be free from the tariff. Italian-born and trained sculptor Pompeo Luigi Coppini, who immigrated to Texas, was protected by the tariff on Story’s “Italian” art.
The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10E06-Transcript.
15 Jul 2026
S10ESUM | "Whitman on the Case," Episode 1 (Summer Feature)
For summer break, the C19 Podcast is hosting its first guest feature episode! It is part one of a two-part miniseries called “Whitman on the Case,” in which a team of student researchers investigates Walt Whitman’s coverage of one of the most notorious murders of the nineteenth century: the slaying of Harvey Burdell in 1857.
The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10ESUM-Transcript. You can subscribe to the “Whitman on the Case” podcast to listen to the second episode on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KYNeUNIfQJIzAxrzf9mkW), YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=1y534Jcdr3U), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/whitman-on-the-case/id1776708857), and many other streaming platforms.
"Whitman on the Case” was written by Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein, and Sequoya Johnston, all affiliated with Texas A&M University—Central Texas, located in the beautiful Texas hill country.
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