Private Voices podcast features interviews with professionals working in Civil War Era studies. Based on the Private Voices digital archive (altchive.org) this program features long form conversations based on the transitionally literate experience of the American Civil War. Guests are invited to discuss their research on the Civil War through letters and diaries featured on Private Voices, or discuss how their recent published scholarship reflects the transitionally literate experience of the Civil War.
Professor James Scythes is an Assistant Professor History at West Chester University. He is the author of "This Will Make a Man of Me": The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War and Letters to Lizzie The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All.
In this podcast, we mainly discuss Professor Scythe's Letters to Lizzie, which recovered a Civil War social network that united a community in New Jersey with its sons serving in the Union army. The social network that Scythe identified reflects similar structures found throughout the collections in the Private Voices archive. To view these collections, visit altchive.org
2 Sept 2023
Episode 2: Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His dissertation is on underage soldiers and sailors during the American Civil War, focusing on their conceptions of gender and manliness. To view the letters discussed during this program, visit altchive.org or the links pasted below
Jesse Pouns
https://altchive.org/node/10613 (https://altchive.org/node/10613)
Pascal Gilmore
https://altchive.org/node/12582 (https://altchive.org/node/12582)
John A. Boyette
https://altchive.org/node/10571 (https://altchive.org/node/10571)
Arthur Martin
https://altchive.org/node/13552 (https://altchive.org/node/13552)
William Ellis
https://altchive.org/node/13397 (https://altchive.org/node/13397)
Errata: Andrew did some research after the episode and found that the phrase "how are you salt river!" was a common expression in antebellum political culture, and meant to suffer an ignominious defeat. It was especially common in the South, and you can read more about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_River_(politics) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_River_(politics)).
30 Jul 2023
Episode 1: Garrett Kost
Garrett Kost is a Park Ranger at Ford's Theatre, an installation of the National Mall in Washington D.C. Kost graduated from Gettysburg College, specializing in military history and public history. In this conversation, Kost explores the spring of 1865, Washington D.C., and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln through letters written by Union soldier in the Private Voices archive. To read the letters discussed visit altchive.org or see the links below.
John Compton: https://altchive.org/node/14200 (https://altchive.org/node/14200)
Harrison Nesbitt: https://altchive.org/node/14063 (https://altchive.org/node/14063), https://altchive.org/node/14064, (https://altchive.org/node/14064)https://altchive.org/node/14065, (https://altchive.org/node/14065)https://altchive.org/node/14067 (https://altchive.org/node/14067)
James Aggas: https://altchive.org/node/14006 (https://altchive.org/node/14006)
21 Jun 2023
Introduction: Welcome to Private Voices
Benjamin Roy, host of the Private Voices podcast, introduces the program, describes its objectives, relationship to the Private Voices digital archive (altchive.org), future guests, and the sponsors who made the podcast possible.
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